Posted on 09/05/2011 6:55:13 AM PDT by Cecily
Freddie Mercury Day - on what would have been the Queen singer's 65th birthday - has been celebrated with a new Google doodle on the web giant's homepage.
In the animated Google Doodle, Mercury is shown singing on stage in front of screaming fans, sat on a throne wearing a crown and dressed as a woman, and strutting about with a hoover.
The accompanying video, over 90 seconds long, is set to 1978 Queen hit Don't Stop Me Now.
Queen guitarist Brian May, writing on a special Google blog, said: "Freddie would have been 65 this year, and even though physically he is not here, his presence seems more potent than ever. Freddie made the last person at the back of the furthest stand in a stadium feel that he was connected. He gave people proof that a man could achieve his dreams."
Doodle designer Ryan Germick added: "The video has a lot of fun, goofy stuff to celebrate what an incredible song writer, fashion icon, and musical innovator he was."
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RIP Freddie Mercury. Thanks for the great rock ‘n’ roll.
loved him. A real showman.
That just makes me wanna pick up my guitar...'scuse me.
You are right, some of his personal habits should not be emulated or celebrated, but that goes for almost all rock/pop stars past and present.
Yeah, yeah, lecture us. Wow, could this guy entertain,
Our culture, society and economy are being “entertained” to total collapse.
Queen’s performance in Montreal 1981 (?) - on video- is incredible.
“Pray for his soul.”
I don’t understand.
can anyone name the Freddie Mercury-MST3K connection? Hint: Horrors of Spider Island.
This one is good too (I’m in Love with My Car) - Freddie on piano. They all sound great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWqwJUnbrhI&feature=related
I’m reminded of two things. The first is just how impressed I always was with Queen. A truly great band, all the way around, and Brian May is one of my influences as a guitarist, tonally and otherwise. The second is an interview wherein Freddy rather famously noted, not to put too fine a point on things, his predilection for perforating anything with, as he put it, “with a hole in it.” I always approved of his talent, in addition to that of John Deacon, Brian May and Roger Taylor. I never approved the lifestyle.
A point of minor digression, if you please. While Freddy is of course still dead, you may wish to hear this gentleman, who played, and sang everything herein.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6h49_5VjRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf98R7UfNFU
Some of the younger generations who aren’t wise in years and experience idolize him to the point of excusing his lifestyle.
Needless to say, they gloss over the how and why he died.
That’s what is seen constantly these days, blind worship of pop idols.
Look at the excuses that have been made for Amy Winehouse and her demise, and the bad behavior of Chris Brown [he beat the crap out of Rihanna -dead silence from the feminists..]
While I do appreciate talent, it is tempered by the hold and sway they exert unduly.
I think a little Bohemian Rhapsody, gentlemen.
Good call.
Nothing seems to matter,
Nothing really matters,
To me.
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