Late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury was quoted as discussing injections he received in best-selling author Lesley-Ann Jones’s in-depth biography, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury.
“It’s sin city,” Mercury cooed of Manhattan in the 1980s. “But you have to come away at the right time. Stay a day too long, and it grips you. Very hypnotic. It’s all tripping in at 8 or 9 every morning, and taking throat injections so I can still sing. It’s a real place. I love it.” On the flip side, in Middle America and the Bible Belt, where Queen’s music would also make its way via massive radio hits like “Bohemian Rhapsody,”
Mercury’s flamboyance — including dressing in drag for the “I Want to Break Free” video (deemed too racy even for MTV) — was a liability. “Middle America felt that Freddie might be gay, and Middle America was very important,” former journalist and EMI PR exec Brian Southall tells Jones. “You could be terribly arty in New York or Los Angeles, but don’t try it in Kansas.”
Brian May has announced a new project on Instagram.
“Ready for our ‘In Conversation’ – Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, and mediator @RogerHighfield, and little me. Bring it on !!! 💥💥💥💥 In this picture we have playfully exchanged books … I’m not expecting a fight 😊 !!! Bri.”
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