Live Aid: Queen’s Brian and Roger hung with Charles and Di however not Fre | Music | Entertainment | EUROtoday
This weekend will mark the fortieth Anniversary of Live Aid, which nonetheless stays the crowning jewel in rock and pop historical past. Fittingly, the then Prince Charles and Princess Diana represented the monarchy in entrance of virtually 1.9billion viewers.
Almost 40% of the world’s inhabitants watched Queen’s spectacular efficiency, which has change into an iconic second in popular culture, however eagle-eyed viewers noticed that solely two of the 4 band members took the chance to see within the royal VIP space.
John Deacon, after all, was famously shy and retiring, however no one might accuse the band’s frontman of the identical. Indeed, rumours persist to at the present time that Freddie Mercury dressed Princess Diana as a person and took her to a homosexual bar.
The Bohemian Rhapsody singer dazzled the Wembley Stadium crowd and international viewers, however apparently had someplace else he would slightly be, which included flirting shamelessly with one other rock icon.
In an unique interview with The Daily Express, Freddie’s shut buddy and long-term assistant, Peter Freestone, revealed that the star had ‘higher’ issues to do.
He mentioned: “Even at Live Aid, you see Brian May and Roger Taylor in the royal box. Freddie didn’t go. He was more interested in being with friends backstage, talking with Elton John, hanging out with his people. His friends were always the most important to him.”
In truth, Freddie was additionally busy chatting up each other very well-known male star, who hilariously described how shameless the Queen legend was, particularly because the man’s spouse was standing proper subsequent to him…
U2 frontman Bono was backstage at Wembley Stadium along with his spouse Ali Stewart, who he had married in 1982, when the outrageous encounter occurred.
Bono recalled: “I was walking with Ali and Freddie Mercury pulled me aside and said: ‘Oh, Bo-No….is it Bo-No or Bon-O?’ I told him, ‘It’s Bon-O’. He said, ‘Come over here with me. We’ve all been talking, Roger [Daltrey] and Pete [Townshend] and David [Bowie]and we all agree there’s no singers any more, everyone is shouting these days, but you’re a singer.’
“I used to be up towards a wall and he put his hand on the wall and was speaking to me like he was chatting up a chick. He had me laughing however I used to be shifting nervously on the time, with Ali and myself exchanging glances.”
Of course, it was all done with Freddie’s usual irrepressible sense of fun and playfulness. Once he embraced his sexuality, he famously delighted in teasing others and sometimes exaggerated his behaviour for effect, off-stage as much as on.
Bono added: “I assumed, ‘Wow, this guy’s actually camp.’ I used to be telling anyone later and he mentioned: ‘You’re stunned? They’re known as Queen!’ But I used to be actually amazed. It hadn’t dawned on me.”
Freddie, after all, meant nothing by it. He was accompanied at Live help by his associate Jim Hutton. By then, his buddies and friends had accepted his sexuality.
Live Aid organiser Bob Geldof even joked about why the live performance was the perfect platform for Queen’s flamboyant celebrity: “It was the perfect stage for Freddie: the whole world. And he could ponce about on stage doing We Are The Champions. How perfect could it get?”
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/2079296/live-aid-queen-freddie-mercury-princess-diana