In the summer of 1985, London's Wembley Stadium gathered more than 70,000 eager spectators, but the football mecca on weekdays belongs to rock music at this moment.
U2, Queen, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Madonna, Zeppelin...
The heat wave of crowd singing and chanting began during the day and ended at night, with more than 100 rock stars and bands performing non-stop.
The performance was broadcast live to more than 140 countries through the global communications satellite network, attracting a total of nearly 1.5 billion TV viewers.
In Live Aid, a charity performance to raise funds for the African Famine, the Queen band took away all the brilliance with a 20-minute performance and gave themselves the status of "God of Rock".
You can dislike this biopic [Bohemian Rhapsody] , but you will never dislike the nearly perfect performance time of the last 20 minutes in the movie.
Freddie Mercury, the man with a mustache, wearing a white vest, led the queen into history with the classics "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Are The Champions", and "We Will Rock You" .
As he said, "We are going to sing and shake the sky." He did it, leaving behind so many legends.
Freddie Mercury, Mercury is the name of Mercury, and also the name of the messenger of the gods in ancient Roman mythology. It is a messenger who flies freely in the mountains and the world, conveying the message of the gods.
When he became famous, he changed his surname to Mercury, and Freddie knew what he wanted from the beginning and knew what he would become.
He was born in the British territories of East Africa with orthodox Persian descent. He went to elementary and middle school in India. He started to learn piano at the age of 7 and formed his first campus band at the age of 12.
At the age of 17, he moved to London with his family and studied art design at the School of Art. Later, the queen's logo was also designed by him.
After that, he went to and fro between different small bands, joined Liverpool's Ibex, and Sour Milk Sea, also sold second-hand clothes with his girlfriend Mary, and worked at the airport.
Friends at the time recalled that he often said, "He is a little quiet and shy, but a young man with a strong interest in music . "
Until I met the queen, at that time, the queen was still called "Smile". The guitarist Brian May had a master's degree in physics and drummer Roger Taylor majored in dentistry. .
At the beginning, Smile had a lead singer. Freddy was just a small fan who followed Smile everywhere. The opportunity was that the original lead singer left the team.
Freddie volunteered to join Smile, and at his insistence, the band's name was finally decided on Queen.
A widely circulated anecdote is that Freddie once said this to many acquaintances: "I am the one who will become a pop star one day."
But no one cared at that time, everyone just smiled and echoed "you will, you will".
Then one day, someone saw him hiding his face with his hands at the table, looking boring. When someone asked him what was wrong, he suddenly stood up and said loudly:
I may not be a pop star, I will become a legend!
In his plan, the Queen’s fame has a "ten-year plan", but it will not take ten years. After the release of the second album "Queen II", they have already begun to become popular.
The single "Killer Queen" from the three colleges won the runner-up on the British singles chart in one fell swoop, and they soon began to tour the United States and Japan.
After that, the 1975 special "A Night at the Opera" completely established their status as a rock star. One of them, "Bohemian Rhapsody", combines opera, hard rock, folk and metal, which lasts as long as 6 minutes. There are classical elements, majestic guitar solo, gorgeous tunes and crazy passion and poetry.
The title of the movie [Bohemian Rhapsody] is taken from the name of the song, and the movie also describes the huge disagreements and disturbances that occurred between the band and the company before the release of this song.
In the end, the audience gave a grand return to the band's persistence. "Bohemian Rhapsody" stayed at the top of the UK singles chart for 9 weeks, breaking the record for the longest time.
What can stop them? "We Are The Champions", "We Will Rock You" and other masterpieces frequently appear, this is the era of queens.
In 1981, the Queen’s masterpiece collection "Greatest Hits" was released, which is still the UK's highest-selling album.
Among the 17 hot lists in this collection, 10 of the capitals were written by Freddy. His creations can freely integrate various musical styles, including metal, psychedelic, gospel, classical, and avant-garde rock. And the voice can be interpreted to the extreme.
It's no wonder that when people talk about the Queen, they often call it a perfect variety hall for all kinds of fusion.
In addition to the music style, another thing the Queen is praised for is their gorgeous stage performance style.
Even if you have only watched this [Bohemian Rhapsody], it is easy to get a glimpse of Freddy's echoing stage appeal and extraordinary stage art.
His live style is highly dramatic, and he likes to interact with the audience on the stage, lead them to sing in a chorus, and let the audience participate.
This is also one of the reasons why the Queen’s 20-minute performance on Live Aid in 1985 can occupy the greatest scene of rock music history for a long time:
He drove more than 70,000 spectators to clap, swing, sing and revel together.
Some people even commented that he was "the person who proved the closest to God with the Dionysus-like performance of the Bacchus" , while band guitarist Brian May directly said that he "can make the last person in the last row of the stadium feel at ease." He is connected" .
On the stage, he would often hold a microphone in his hand, sometimes wave it, sometimes spin and jump, or sing while twisting his waist and butt, or hit the ground to interact with the guitarist and guitar, or raise his fist high and passionate.
Match it with his visual style inspired by various parties, from the earliest movie star Marlene Dietrich, to Lisa Minnelli, to the gorgeous rock and roll trend of the early 70s, and gay and queer culture. .
Freddie is gay, or bisexual, and anyone who knows him a little bit knows this.
It is not accidental that Marlene Dietrich ’s poster appeared twice in [Bohemian Rhapsody]. This famous movie star who pioneered the neuter trend in the 1930s is one of Freddie’s idols.
Dietrich was the first actress to wear trousers on the Hollywood screen. In [Morocco] in 1930, she wore a tuxedo, a top hat, a menswear, and a cigarette in her hand, both tempting women , And make men unforgettable.
And Freddie’s other idol, Lisa Minnelli , played a club dancer like a cat in the 72-year-old song and dance film [ King Hall].
The eyebrows and short hair, light blue eye makeup, long eyelashes, cunning and beautiful eyes, are smart and wonderful.
On stage, Freddy often draws eyeshadow and eyeliner with heavy pen and ink, matched with shiny sequined tights or pure white jumpsuits "stolen" from the gorgeous rock and roll trend.
In the later period, he took his own experience of wandering in gay bars and bathrooms as inspiration and put more erotic leather clothes on the stage.
Including his iconic short hair, moustache, white T-shirt or dress that directly exposed his chest hair in the 1980s, they were all popular dresses with strong gay colors at the time.
A bitter American music critic once ridiculed his image on the stage as "like a silent film star with a long egg".
But the more objective "The Spectator" praised him as "a performer who used various exaggerated and unrestrained versions of himself to tease the audience, shock the audience, and finally fascinate the audience."
David Bowie, who had collaborated with him on "Under Pressure", praised him:
Among all the drama rock singers, Freddie far surpassed everyone else, he surpassed the limit. I only saw him in a concert once with my own eyes, and it turned out that, as in the legend, he is a man who can hold the audience in the palm of his hand.
Although [Bohemian Rhapsody] does not show much of his gay nightlife, those nights full of medicine and sex, indulgence and madness are undoubtedly part of his music source.
And it's a very important part of Queen's music.
He chose to live at the crossroads of mainstream culture and queer culture all his life. Even with the hard and lonely side, he never regretted it.
He himself said:
I won't be Eva Veron, and I don't want to be written down in history because "Gosh, I want them to realize that after my death, I created something, or I used to be something". I had a great time.
Will suffice. Be loyal to your heart, like this in your life.
Freddie Mercury’s name has indeed become a legend for later generations, as he predicted at the beginning, but more importantly , it is enough to sum up this life with "I have a great time" .
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