In the final months before succumbing to AIDS in November 1991, Freddie Mercury worked diligently on the music that became 'Made in Heaven.' In the Queen documentary 'Champions of the World,' guitarist Brian May recalled the resolute spirit within the band, realizing they were "totally on bor...
In the final months before succumbing to AIDS in November 1991, Freddie Mercury worked diligently on the music that became 'Made in Heaven.' In the Queen documentary 'Champions of the World,' guitarist Brian May recalled the resolute spirit within the band, realizing they were "totally on bor...
As for who plays on it, you've got the full Queen lineup and nobody else, so that means: Freddie Mercury on lead and backing vocals, and piano, Brian May on electric guitar and backing vocals, Roger Taylor on drums and backing vocals, and John Deacon on bass guitar. It was produced...
The outsized hedonism of this song began to bother Brian May as Freddie Mercury battled the AIDS virus that killed him in 1991. "I thought it was a lot of fun, but I did have an undercurrent feeling of, 'Aren't we talking about danger here?'" May said. "We were worried about Fred...
Mercury Uriah Heep In 1969, when everyone in England was mining old books for band names, hard rockers Uriah Heep got theirs from a character in Charles Dickens’ 'David Copperfield.' Uriah Heep was a man untrustworthy and unlikable in the extreme. So how did he end up as their band nam...
Yet happiness was never an option for Michael. No sooner had he found the greatest love of his life to date in Anselmo Feleppa than AIDS-related complications claimed the Brazilian designer’s life in 1993. Three years later, third solo LPOlderboasted “Jesus to a Child,” an elegy to Fe...
Her piano-driven ballads, consisting of “Fallin'” and “If I Ain’t Got You,” resonate through the platform, proving that Tubidy is not only a keeper of standards but likewise a curator of the most up to date voices forming the songs landscape. Freddie Mercury: Tubidy’s Bohemian ...
Queentook the camp up a notch with 1984’s“I Want to Break Free,”which put the entire band (including a still-closeted Freddie Mercury) in drag a full 25 years before “RuPaul’s Drag Race” made it mainstream-fashionable. While most LGBTQ ’80s acts were playing it safe musically an...
The Freddie Mercury and Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" was already entering the Oscars with several controversies, including the firing of director Bryan Singer after he was accused of sexual assault and the film's perceived lack of attention to Mercury's sexuality and the larger AIDS crisis. ...
Mercury Uriah Heep In 1969, when everyone in England was mining old books for band names, hard rockers Uriah Heep got theirs from a character in Charles Dickens’ 'David Copperfield.' Uriah Heep was a man untrustworthy and unlikable in the extreme. So how did he end up as their band nam...