FREDDIE MERCURY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 24, 2019…ON THIS DATE TWENTY EIGHT YEARS AGO THE WORLD LOST FREDDIE MERCURY. HERE ARE SOME QUICK FACTOIDS CONCERNING MERCURY:

-MERCURY FORMED QUEEN IN 1970 WITH GUITARIST BRIAN MAY AND DRUMMER ROGER TAYLOR

-WHEN ASKED WHAT ONE OF QUEEN’S MOST FAMOUS SONGS ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ MEANT, FREDDIE SAID “IT BEARS NO REAL MEANING, IT’S ALL JUST RHYMING NONSENSE.”

-HIS KNOWN VOCAL RANGE EXTENDED FROM BASS LOW F [F2] TO SOPRANO HIGH F [F6]. HE COULD BELT OUT TO TENOR HIGH F [F5] WHICH IS ALMOST FOUR OCTAVES.

-FREDDIE MERCURY USED TO DISGUISE PRINCESS DIANA AS A MAN SO SHE COULD JOIN THEM ON NIGHTS WITHOUT BEING RECOGNIZED.

-HE ONCE TRIED COLLABORATING IN THE STUDIO WITH MICHAEL JACKSON BUT THE PROJECT FELL APART WHEN JACKSON KEPT ON BRINGING A LLAMA INTO THE STUDIO.

-MERCURY ONCE OWNED AS MANY AS TEN CATS

-HE STUDIED GRAPHIC DESIGN IN COLLEGE AND DESIGNED THE QUEEN CREST BY HIMSELF BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THEIR FIRST ALBUM

THE LOGO FEATURES THE ZODIAC SIGNS OF ALL FOUR MEMBERS: TOW LIONS FOR ‘LEO’ (DEACON AND TAYLOR), A CRAB FOR CANCER (MAY), AND 2 FAIRIES FOR VIRGO (MERCURY)

-FREDDIE WAS VERY SELF-CONSCIOUS ABOUT HIS TEETH, BUT REFUSED TO HAVE ANY WORK DONE BECAUSE HE FEARED IT MIGHT CHANGE HIS SINGING VOICE

-HIS REAL NAME WAS FURROKH BULSARA, BUT CHANGED HIS NAME LEGALLY TO FREDDIE MERCURY AROUND 1970 WHEN QUEEN WAS FORMED

-FREDDIE’S FAVORITE ARTISTS WERE ARETHA FRANKLIN AND JIMI HENDRIX

-ROGER DALTREY OF THE WHO CALLED MERCURY “THE BEST VIRTUOSO ROCK & ROLL SINGER OF ALL-TIME”

HERE’S THE GREAT FREDDIE MERCURY WITH ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUEEN SONGS