Fifty years on from Queen\u2019s debut album, guitarist Brian May reckoned the band would still be rocking the world if \u00ad Freddie Mercury were still with us.
The guitar legend reveals he still \u201cmisses the butterflies\u201d he would feel while watching the flamboyant frontman \u00adstrut his stuff on stage, reports Mirror.co.uk.
\u201cFreddie was a fantastic mate and a great brother,\u201d he said. \u201cI liked it when he broke the rules, what he said to the \u00adaudience and the risk he took. I am sure if he was here today we would still be doing it and the mothership would still be steaming around the world, because he lived for music and lived for the band \u2013 it was his family.\u201d
As per Mirror.co.uk, Bandmates Brian, Freddie, Roger Taylor and John Deacon put out their self-titled first LP on July 13, 1973, on EMI in the UK and Elektra Records in the US.
Rolling Stone magazine hailed it as a \u201csuperb\u201d debut \u2013 even though it only reached No 32 in the charts. And it set wheels in motion that would see Queen become one of the greatest rock groups of all time with over 300 million in records sold worldwide. Five decades on, and 32 years after frontman Freddie\u2019s death from AIDS aged just 45 in 1991, Brian said his memories of his old friend have not faded. \u201cHe was very shy but also very social. He lived to the max every second of the day,\u201d said the 75-year-old.
\u201cHe is so enduring because he was an eccentric genius. He was not a people pleaser. Some may have found him rude but he achieved what he wanted and knew what he was doing. I think there was a period where he felt we might disapprove of his sexuality, and the rest of the world might disapprove.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fifty years on from Queen\u2019s debut album, guitarist Brian May reckoned the band would still be rocking the world if \u00ad Freddie Mercury were still with us.The guitar legend reveals he still \u201cmisses the butterflies\u201d he would feel while watching the flamboyant frontman \u00adstrut his stuff on stage, reports Mirror.co.uk.\u201cFreddie was a fantastic mate and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":359914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}