Tag: freddie mercury

moustachefreddie:

70sfreddie:

readyfreddie:

A journalist from a local London newspaper approached me this week about the petition I started about a month ago for a Freddie Statue in London

For Freddie I revealed it all and would do it again if needed

Thank you for reaching out to me Josh

I hope with this we’ll be able to collect more signatures

Freddie deserves that statue to be put in London ASAP

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Sign the petition

THAT’S SO BEAUTIFUL I CAN’T EVEN PUT INTO WORDS

Everyone needs to sign this!

meekamess:

mollyprewett:

karis-the-fangirl:

cornflakepizza:

iraniandiaspora:

newwavenova:

stupiduglyfatcunt:

fatbisexualpenguin:

People who say bi erasure doesn’t happen need to realize Freddie Mercury is known as the most famous homosexual man when he identified himself as bisexual. If that’s not bi erasure I don’t even know.

Also PoC erasure, most people don’t know he was 100% Indian

Specifically he was Parsi.
Also raised Zeroastrian.

*zoroastrian 

#i dont think the white boys can handle a queer brown guy being their god

^^^
centuries of religious art featuring white-skinned blue-eyed Jesus have made that pretty clear

His real name was Farrokh Bulsara. He was born in Zanzibar.

And he was bisexual.

life-traveller:

I love how loyal Brian, Roger and John are to Freddie.

Roger and Brian appeared on TV to defend him against the vitriol of the press (some people even wrote that he deserved to die because he had a promiscuous lifestyle) eight days after his death. You can see in their faces the fresh grief and shock, but they still went because they were not going to let those bastards get away with talking shit about Fred.

They went on to create the Mercury Phoenix Trust to fight AIDS worldwide in his memory.

The documentary Days of Our Lives is particularly heartbreaking to watch. Among other things, Brian talks about how they knew but didn’t know; they kind of refused to know that Freddie was dying. They were like “No, it can’t happen to him” and until the last moment they kept thinking there had to be a way out.

They praise his gentleness, his courage in facing his illness and his dedication to music.

Roger remembers how he was on his way to see him when Peter Freestone (Freddie’s assistant) called him to say “Don’t bother coming, cause he’s gone”. And even after 20 years, he has to hold back tears.

John retired after Freddie’s death. We don’t know if that’s the sole reason because he’s a very private man, but the facts are there. He only returned to the band to finish their last album, shoot the video of Only the Good Die Young (another tearjerker) and then stepped out of the limelight.

Their last album was called Made in Heaven, and the cover was a photo of Brian, Roger and John next to Freddie’s statue in Montreaux (Switzerland).

Brian wrote said statue’s inscription: Lover of Life, Singer of Songs.

They worked for almost ten years on Bohemian Rhapsody, because they wanted to get the right people on board (and after watching the film, I can tell you they did) and not because they wanted to milk Freddie, as it has been said. Roger said on the premiere that Sacha Baron Cohen wouldn’t have taken Freddie seriously. They answered the actors’ endless questions and even visited the set. That’s how much they care about protecting him and his legacy.

Roger regularly posts old photos of Freddie (check out his Instagram @rogertaylorofficial and weep).

So if you want to talk shit about any of them, you’ll have to fight me first. And I know I’ll fucking destroy you.

classicalmonoblogue:

olofahere:

pumpkinleif:

Not gonna lie, one of my favorite parts about writing urban fantasy is determining how and where the fantasy meshes in with reality.

Like, I’m not saying Freddie Mercury WAS a siren, but have you ever heard anyone NOT sing along to Bohemian Rhapsody?

I rest my case.

It is a six-minute song with incomprehensible lyrics that seem to have something to do with murder and demons, with five sections that are completely different stylistically but no chorus.

It was number one on the the UK singles charts twice, 15 years apart, and is by many measures one of the most popular, or the most popular, single of all time.

Yeah, there’s magic involved.

And an absurdly broad swathe of people know it. I have no memory of learning it, do you?