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July 26 - August 12, 2018
A happy person doesn’t feel the need to do anything, to create anything. Happy people are content with their lot, with the way things are. Freddie was perennially anguished. The way he felt about Mary was the cause of that, but was also an inspiration for his work.’
Freddie would flare in inexplicable bouts of bad temper, which could cause him to be unkind and even cruel, uttering withering put-downs and gratuitously spiteful comments.
Larry Lurex,
‘We’d all go out for dinner with Cliff Richard, and make mischief
when virgin pressings of records arrived, executives would give a listen to the ‘Old Greys’, the doormen in grey suits. Songs that made enough impression to have the old boys whistling the melodies after just one hearing were deemed to have passed the ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’.
Elton denounced it to their mutual manager as a sure-fire
“To me, dullness is a disease. I need danger and excitement.
“Teo Torriatte”
‘Somebody to Love’,
‘A Queen audience is a football crowd which doesn’t take sides.’
‘Love of My Life’, which Freddie had written for Mary Austin.
The result was their co-production ‘Under Pressure’
the night in 1984 when he realised that Freddie was going to die.
“Don’t worry darling,” he said with this wicked laugh, “if I wanted you, I could have you,” just like that.
He was ‘always busy, seldom rushed. It was a pleasant, convivial lifestyle’.
that's for me
That was the reason he turned his back on so many people during the final year. Sometimes it would be a silly argument or something. But he knew the real reason,
