But that seems to be what it's about. |
I have a perfectly clear idea of what was in Freddie's mind. But it was unwritten law among us in those days that the real core of a song lyric was a private matter for the composer. |
I have to pinch myself, really, because I didn't think I would be doing this after all these years. |
I would never do it in public. I would really find it degrading to do it in public. |
It seemed like a fun thing to do, and it's become one of the highlights of the set. People just don't want to let it go. I don't think we realized how much resonance it had in this country. We thought it was more of a European thing. But it seems to be one of the things that connects very deeply with audiences here. |
It was edited in such a way that it looked as if I was purely negative. |
It was good to see. It was mostly military crowd and they supported him. |
It was really there in our heads from the beginning - to get the orchestration of the voices and guitars. It was just a question of being able to realize the dream, and getting the time and money and studio equipment to be able to do it. Actually, the 'Queen II' album [in 1974] had a lot of that in it - it tends to be slightly underrated, but a lot of the foundations for the sound were laid on that album. |
It was very much like losing a family member. And, of course, you never really get over it. You get through it and you rebuild your life. But it's always there. And I will always carry that with me. |
Not for a million -- years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king. |
There is an enormous crowd of extremely famous people here sitting on the lawn chatting on their mobile phones. |
We didn't audition for Paul - he just turned up. He'd been a friend for many years, and suddenly there was a real chemistry there. Really, I don't think we could be out there with someone who hadn't trodden the same path as us. |
We do rearrange things. But Paul also does have an amazing range that he doesn't use all that much. When we were doing Another One Bites the Dust , we pulled it down a couple of semi-tones because we didn't want to hurt him. |
We just thought that Freddie's blueprint for 'Rhapsody' was intriguing and original, and worthy of work. This was a well-planned project from Freddie, to which we contributed our best, but there were always changes along the way as tracks developed. |
We just thought that Freddie's blueprint for 'Rhapsody' was intriguing and original, and worthy of work. This was a well-planned project from Freddie, to which we contributed our best, but there were always changes along the way as tracks developed. |