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Freddie Mercury and Brian May performing with Queen. 1975.

March 7th, 1976 - Queen Story!

Berkeley, CA, USA, Community Theater

'A Night At The Opera' tour

📸 Photographer © Dan Cuny

Chapters: 32/? Fandom: Queen (Band), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Brian May/Freddie Mercury, Winnie Kirchberger/Freddie Mercury Characters: Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Peter “Phoebe” Freestone, Paul Prenter, Roger Taylor (Queen), John Deacon, Winnie Kirchberger Additional Tags: POV Alternating, Mutual Pining, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, First Time, Getting Together, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, References to Depression, Protective Brian May, Eventual Happy Ending, (the following won’t happen between Brian and Freddie!), Cheating, Dubious Consent, Implied/Referenced Emotional Abuse Summary:

Maybe Brian could keep his mouth shut and stop worrying about Freddie’s love life and the people who hung around him in Munich, if he thought he was actually happy.

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We’re almost at the end, everyone…

I know it's been a little while, but I'm 1k words into the next chapter of the Munich fic. We're really close to the end

3.2k words, so it's coming along

I think the chapter is basically finished. It’ll be a bit shorter than previous ones because there’s not much left to do in this fic anymore 😭

Queen Fanclub Convention 2023 Part 5: Sam Geden...

...aka when Brian commissioned the Freddie statue for WWRY 2023 specifically to be placed in his garden because he's still salty about Roger nicking the previous one in 2014 when he was away. 😂

Next in this series is an interview that was supposed to be with Stephen Pyle, who sculpted the original Freddie statue for WWRY 2003 and now for WWRY 2023. The statue isn't outside the theatre this time but (WWRY slight spoiler alert) it was present in the musical itself on stage. However Stephen wasn't there so instead Sam Geden, who took stereo photographs of the statue, came up on stage with a presentation about building the statue for WWRY 2023. He also brought a small model of Freddie that was used in the process.

Not even two slides in we were already presented with this gem of a revelation about Brian just quietly plotting to have his own Freddie statue at home. Everyone in the room was unfazed but I was just. wheezing at how salty Brian still is (and rightly so, get it Brian!!). I think that new bit of knowledge was the best part of this whole Fanclub Convention experience lmfao. Maybe we'll get to see a picture of it on his Instagram sometime? Hopefully!

Since it was a presentation format instead of Q&A this panel relied on a lot of images, which unfortunately I didn't thoroughly take pictures of. Still I think it'd be nice to appreciate the story and artistic background behind this statue so I will be posting a transcript just as I did with the other panels.

After the panel I went to buy one of his prints and chose a stereo one (cause I can free-view stereo which is amazing!) and he was very pleased because apparently people don't tend to choose the stereo ones. (📸 Ian Knight) If you're interested in the artistic process behind the statue I think this will be a very good read!

Transcript is under the cut below. I used the help of an auto transcription service and edited it manually afterwards.

Disclaimer: English is not my first language so there are parts that I marked as "indistinct" and the accuracy may not be 100%. This wouldn't be their fault for not pronouncing it clearly, it would be mine for not catching it properly.

Brian never getting over Roger taking the Freddie statue (when he knew he wanted it!), and having one made for himself a solid decade later because he apparently needs a giant statue of Freddie in his garden that badly, is peak Brian. I guess the various Freddie merchandise he has around his house wasn’t enough!

Today - March 6th, 1977 - Queen Story!

San Francisco, CA, USA, Winterland Ballroom

'A Day At The Races' tour

Freddie Mercury interview extract 1981

05-02-1981 – Melody Maker

🔸Do you ever leave a stage feeling you’ve done a really bad gig?

Freddie Mercury: "Yes, sometimes. We all scream and shout at each other and destroy the dressing room and release our energy. We set ourselves a very high standard and 99 per cent of the audience wouldn’t agree with our assessment of a bad gig. In San Francisco I lost my voice and it was awful, my register was limited to virtually a monotone. I still gave it my all but I knew it was a bad performance. They had to reschedule the tour and take three or four shows off the tour. I have nodules on my vocal chords and most tours are now scheduled around my voice.

🔸"Freddie's voice gets a real beating on a tour like that, especially if you're doing five nights in a row, which sometimes we were. So towards the end he was having a lot of trouble and he was going to great length to keep it in trim, to the length of not talking on tour between gigs and taking all kinds of medications.

We lost a couple gigs due to that, but all in all we did very well, I think."

- Brian May

Interview with Capitol Radio

📸 Photo by Chris Bradford

I know it's been a little while, but I'm 1k words into the next chapter of the Munich fic. We're really close to the end

3.2k words, so it's coming along

Freddie Mercury and Brian May from Queen’s music video for “I Want It All.” 1989.