No zelebrity bullshit . Just pure class . Softly spoken men chatting about life and music . Nothing to prove , no attitude . Simply a pleasure to watch .
RIck Wakeman is multi-talented. I can't believe he can step back from his own celebrity to be such a great interviewer. He really brought out the best of Brian May and never got in the way of the story.
I was looking to see who the interview was because this is 1 of the best interviews I've heard with Brian! So delightful not to hear the same stuff repeated over and over. And even some of the stuff I've heard he said in a new and A lot more depth. Should I know the guy interviewing him? I don't know the name and I didn't recognize him, So I'm wondering if he was only big on your side of the pond, or if I've just lost brain cells LOL
@@ellenw391 Rick Wakeman, keyboard player for Yes, also worked with Bowie (as mentioned in the interview), Elton John, Cat Stevens, T. Rex, Black Sabbath and many more
@@ellenw391 Rick Wakeman is a genius piano player known as the piano player on Bowie's 'Life on Mars', 'Changes', 'oh you pretty things' off his 1971 album, Hunky Dory.
Rick Wakeman is an incredible keyboardist. My favorite in the world. He is also a very funny man. RRHOF speech...lololol. I have seen his solo tours too.
It's interesting to hear Brian converse with a contemporary who was around at that time, knew some of the same people and played some of the same places.
Brian May often projects the understated Englishman but then so does Rick Wakeman subtly omitting after speaking of Space Oddity that he was on keyboards for Oh You Pretty Things, Changes and one of the most definitive rock songs of the 70s -Life On Mars…all brilliant timeless songs.. Both immense talents😎👌
@L O L LMAO, seriously? Are you really this oblivious or are you just being facetious? Do I have to explain the entire history of rock and roll up to the British invasion or would you prefer to do your own research?
@L O L you really don't actually read the comments do you? LOL. You just kind of blather on and respond to comments that were made up in your head, LOL. Let me try this one more time, read it out loud if you need to do you will comprehend. I never said anything about who was "better," American bands or British bands. I stated a point of fact that British rock bands were inspired by American bands and artists. Again, do some research. And another point of fact, most of my favorite bands ARE the British bands. see ya. Can't help you any further if you're not going to help yourself.
Great story. I have always loved Queen but became obsessed after watching Bohemian Rhapsody. I remember Live Aid. I sat on my living room floor drinking scotch. These days I usually play the second CD of the greatest hits CD every day. All the excellent stuff that didn't get a lot of radio play. I am more of a fan than ever & have a great appreciation for their individual talents.
Hi, Willo, I completely agree with you. I also was lucky to be among the public at Live Aid. Will never forget that concert. The best I have ever being at!!
Wow yes Roger is the best Drummer LEGEND, FREDDIE MERCURY LEGEND , JOHN DEACON LEGEND AN YOU BRIAN MAY LEGEND LOVE YOU ALL 💯♾️🌹👑 YOU ALL ARE GIFTS FROM GOD
Sharon All for love and positivity !! Your comment is absolutely true … every bit of it. Some people today are changing who Freddie was and how awesome he was. He loved the band and he knew each one of the four was completely necessary !! He aimed for perfection. That’s who he was and with no Freddie there would be no Queen ( and I am saying the same for each member !!)
Back in the late 70's & early 80's; always liked Queen & always thought Freddie was a standout guy with an amazing voice. I remember watching them at Live Aid on tv. Since watching Bohemian Rhapsody at the movies, I've become obsessed with Queen & all their music & of course the late great & beautiful Freddie Mercury!! I wish I'd seen him in concert. I did go to their recent concert with Adam Lambert-whom I've always loved since his American Idol days. So it was pretty cool to watch him with Queen. He's no Freddie, nor does he try to be Freddie but he's pretty terrific & has a powerhouse voice. RIP Freddie 💙
Thanks for torrent love and support, a day can’t go by without not thinking about Freddie and as for Adam is an outstanding man and has been the best out of all... what do you think about my friend David Amess who lost his life recently, hope I’m not keeping you in suspense ?
There really is something different about people with class. They can be at the top of the world, but still be simple, sincere and humble. Sadly so few of them are around, especially nowadays in the entertainment industry.
I keep coming back to this interview obviously because of the content but after watching for the first time I realise it begins with a more formal vibe then as the conversation progresses it has a feel of forget the cameras this is in Ricks living room vibe. Great! Thank You.
I am glad being living in 197x... The sound on the radio was not great but there was Queen in 1974 and our DIN (Deutsche Industry Norm) connector so we could record freely all those great songs from UK
I'm glad that Brian told it like it is. That was the story that I have always known, of how Freddie use to watch them and give them all kind of ideas how they can present themselves much better. The Bohemian Rhapsody biopic made it seem like they were doing Freddie a big favor when it was the other way around.
@@bobinscotland to be fair the production of that movie was chaotic to say the least. Bryan Singer the director pulled some no shows and eventually got fired from the project. The DOP ended up directing the rest of the movie. The fact that it was as coherent as it was is amazing alone.
Bet they were glad they got Freddie in, in the end...because Freddie paved the way and knew where he wanted to take the band. It was Freddie who pushed them. Freddie got the costumes as he would say they needed to be noticed. The other guys thought they wanted to carry on at their colleges. Freddie said they had to do it properly if they wanted to get some where. Freddie was also closely involved at the mixing desk and production. Roger said Freddie was ever the professional and a hard worker, and Freddie never much then had a drink up until 1978. The rest is history.
@@theaterpup3466 I have said that too. But this video was about when Brian met Freddie and Freddie wanting in on the group. Of course there wouldn't have been Queen without the others, it goes without saying!! My point was, they originally were not interested in having Freddie... so hence they ALL wouldn't be where they are now had they not taken him. Had it been Freddie talking in a video about joining Brian and Roger, I would have said exactly the same, I bet Freddie was glad they joined him...!!!... But, both Brian and Roger have said they were going to give up, that is, until Freddie joined and pushed them. Freddie saved the day again for them when he wrote Bohemian Rhapsody. Brian said the band were totally poor, even with 3 albums.. and when John Reid took over, it was make or break... Bohemian Rhapsody turned it all around... Brian said, had it not have worked out, they would have finished the band and given up. Brian said this himself in the Documentary "from Rags to Rhapsody". It was risky putting Bohemian Rhapsody out as a single, because it was different...but it worked. Brian and Roger have always spoken of Bohemian Rhapsody, it's still famous today and reached RAA Diamond award status...the first British UK single to do that. They all made Queen. No disputing that. I'm just saying Brian even said had it not been for Freddie pushing them, there may not have been Queen. Without any of them there would not have been, and who knows if any of them would still have formed other bands...we will never know because I for one am glad they all found one another.. Freddie would be the first to say they were all 4 equals in the band. Each brought there own to the table. And that's true. 💯
@@sharonallforloveandpositiv5497 Exactly! Don’t mind TheaterPup as they’re more a Rogah Taylah fan 😂! That said, the biggest sticking point for me is that Freddie didn’t join Bri/Rog as in Smile tho. Smile officially disbanded ‘n every single Queen interview prior to Freddie’s demise confirms this! Fact: Freddie wanted to join Smile when their keyboardist, Chris Smith left the band ‘bout a yr prior to Tim leaving. Bri blocked Freddie citing ‘they’d already had a great lead singer in Tim’ - which was what he’d said here actually. Long story short, Smile legally disbanded in April ‘70 ‘n Queen didn’t officially form ‘til June ‘70. How in the hell can Freddie ‘change’ the name of their band when Smile had already been legally disbanded by two months?!!! And it was Rog’s mum who booked Queen’s first concert as she’d booked it out for Smile. Tim actually stuck it to Bri ‘n Rog ‘n Queen’s first concert was billed: Queen (formerly Smile) with Mike Gross as their bassist. Freddie’s other two bands disbanded approximately April of ‘70 as well. He was in Ibex which he’d *DID* changed the name to Wreckage, but behind everybody’s backs. The band ended-up goin’ back up to northern England ‘n eventually disbanded. Freddie joined-up with another band called Sour Milk Sea, but the founder/leader of that band felt threatened by Freddie’s visions of where he’d thought the band’s directions should go. Freddie also used to harmonized with Tim at the college’s men’s bathroom as they had great acoustics. Freddie likely never wanted to replace Tim, but to sing along side of him, harmonizing. He REALLY loved their voices (Bri/Rog/Tim) ‘n he’d hoped to make the 3 piece band back into a 4 piece band. I personally think there were egos involved which came into play…keeping Freddie in ‘his place’ & I suspect it was more to do with Bri but it also had been Bri feeling he needed to stick-up for his mate Tim as well. I can totally see Tim being annoyed with Freddie but since they were college mates, he couldn’t bring himself to tell Freddie to fuck-off. So maybe he’d gotten Bri to do it for him as it wouldn’t be anything for him to do as Freddie ‘n he weren’t friends at that time but Bri ‘n Tim went way back.
The Queen stories I already knew (but never averse to listening to Brian talking about it) but I had no idea that Rick Wakeman played on Space Oddity. Wow.
I love this Maria!! I would love to hear the rest of this story!! Who better to tell us this story than our beloved Brian May 🎶🎵🎶♥️♥️♥️ thank you and I will be looking for more!! 👌
One thing I learned early about Queen.. they were smart in many ways.. still love you with Adam but we all know it was magic.. and we still love our car lol!❤️❤️ and Brian is still just lovely..
@@Rikki-lh2mw 😂 Yes, Adam Lamburp sings for the remaining 2/4th of Queen for their live tours. Ppl say it’s a collaboration; I say he’s a hired singer for them…no more…no less than the hired session live musicians who also tour with them.
5:20 Humpy Bong was the name of the school in Sydney attended by drummer Colin Petersen and also the boys from the Bee Gees, and Colin had been their drummer.
John Deacon came in about a year after Tim Staffell left, as Roger's friend Mike Grose started out as bass player, followed by Barry Mitchell then Doug Bogie.
@@bobinscotland And Freddie, Brian and Roger thought Deakie would be a good fit for them because he was quiet and unassuming ( unlike them lol). THEY WERE RIGHT…He was an awesome bassist!
The name of the band that Colin Petersen started was Humpybong - this was the name of the school in Redcliffe that he and the Gibb brothers went to in the early 60s. Know it well, my granddaughter went there.
@@brianmay0000 since Queen's first album, I remember you playing in my home town of Edmonton in the seventies. The fact that we share interests in cosmology, physics just makes it better.
This was the biggest flaw in the movie. Freddie knew Tim through Ealing school of art and that is how he knew and became friends with Brian and Roger long before Tim left for Humpty Bong.
I just love Listening to Dr. Brian talking about Queen History all day. Mr. Richard Wakeman is such a Gentleman I love this conversation, I’ve watched the full Interview here a couple days ago ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-daf9j8xnaOY.html. Bless these 2 legends💛. Thanks/Salamat Ms. Quisel for sharing this part. Bless you👑
Any chance you have the full hour interview or no where to find it? I would absolutely adore hearing it. What a fabulous interview with new information for delightful change! I want it all and I want it now 😏😉😁😂
I was just thinking about a song by Queen, "Killer Queen" to be exact. sort of humming and singing to myself when I ran across this video, is that freaky or what?
Freddie was friends with Tim,I'm struggling to beleive he tried to push Tim out of the way as the lead singer Tim didn't explain it that way he said Freddie had ideas about hoe they prestented themselves bt also that they needed to interact with and include the audience more but tim didnt see himself that way demo wih wreckage/Ibex freddie wasn't shouting,quite quiet maybe he was different on stage Roger said he liked that Freddie sang falsetto Roger,Tim and Brian were performing in liverpool and Ibex were at a different venue,they went to see Fredde and e encouraged tem to join him on stage to do an encore
ITA! There’s something a bit off with the way Bri has progressively told the inception of Queen over time. It’s really something of a fairytale…especially the part that Freddie joined Smile ‘n ‘changed’ the name to Queen. All Queen interviews that speak of Queen’s origins ALWAYS says that Smile disbanded, broke-up, split ‘n that Bri ‘n Rog were resolved to finishing graduate studies. It was Freddie who approached them after Sour Milk Sea broke-up over personnel differences…Freddie was kicked out of Wreckage for the stunt of changing the band’s name from Ibex behind everybody’s backs (well this is the story that’s being brought forward by some of the former Ibex/Wreckage members in a few documentaries). Freddie had more to loose in that he really didn’t want to work in his diploma field of arts/graphic design ‘n approached Bri ‘n Rog to give this band thingy one more try. I know he’d wanted to join Smile when Chris Smith, Smile’s former keyboardist left the band. It was Bri who blocked Freddie from joining Smile…citing that they [Smile] already had a great lead singer in Tim. That said, I also know that Freddie ‘n Tim were college students ‘n friends. It’s quite possible that Tim might’ve felt threatened by Freddie’s ‘unsolicited’ suggestions but perhaps didn’t have the nerve to tell him to his face to back off. Freddie could be quite insistant by many accounts ‘n if Tim’s personality isn’t one to stand-up to others, I could see Bri stepping up to the plate to tell Freddie to back off. After all, he ‘n Tim were mates LONG b4 Freddie ‘n Tim were. Bri might’ve felt compelled to defend Tim to Freddie as HE wasn’t friends with him at that time. But goin’ back to the fairytale, I noticed the story of Queen’s inception had progressively gone from Tim leaving for Humpy Bong, Smile spliting, Bri/Rog & Freddie starting Queen to Freddie jumping in to replace Tim ‘cos he was hanging in the wings, changed the name from Smile to Queen, and went on to design the band’s logo. I couldn’t help but noticed the very last interview/documentary Tim was in how his tone has changed from being very humble: ‘well it’s a good thing I’d gotten out of the way or Queen wouldn’t have formed’ to ‘Freddie couldn’t wait for me to leave’ to ‘Freddie probably wanted to push me out of the way.’ He too is goin’ along with Bri’s fairytale that Smile was born from their former group 1984…as if! Were they two in 1984, sure, but there were a bunch of other guys that were also part of that band as well. Are THEY to say they’re connected to Smile/Queen by way of Bri/Tim? Noooo. So why would Bri/Tim connect Queen by way of Smile (1984 by way of Bri)? We all know…it’s the May ego. Bri always felt HE was in charged of Queen…that HE was Queen’s leader ‘cos to HIM, it’s origins goes back to Smile/1984 groups. Nevermind the others all having been in some group or another. It just amazes me how Bri ‘n now Tim are spinning this now.
@@Motown-1966 Ibex/wreckage if there was a huge offer then maybe they would have considered it but they only intended Ibex to be something to do during the summer then back to studies. smile were still finishing their studies but were hoping for a big brake name- interviews they said Freddie rang them up suggesting the new name saying he had spoken to the others and they were fine with it were they, each said yes and he had already changed the name on their equipment. they realised he had rang them all up saying the same thing! but didn't seem cross, I think that was pretty much near the beginning. they said they wished they had made more effort to stay in touch with him but it was on good terms they split up. when they formed Queen the guy from Ibex helped set up university gigs so they were still on good terms and supportive the first time Freddie performed as such with Brian, Roger ( Tim) was at the sink Liverpool he was performing with Ibex and they as smile in liverpool they went to see him and he got them to do an encore Smile/Queen when they had formed Queen the guy from Ibex spoke to Freddie asked jokingly well what did you name them he said Queen, his response was you will never get away with that Fred but he did! I don't know if Freddie did the crest afterwards or if that was part of his selling pitch! I doubt Brian would have agreed had he realised the gay connotations of it but the three of them gave suggestions and chose Queen their first gig was for charity organised by Rogers mother who advertised it as Smile but when they got there Freddie announced they were Queen Roger said they had given up on Smile and were calling it a day but Freddie encouraged them to start again with him, it was a new start, new band new vision and approach I can't find anything that Freddie wanted to replace Chris on keyboards or that Freddie wanted to replace Tim as singer he was friends with Tim if that idea is only coming from Brian and no one else I'm dismissing it. Tim said Freddie was giving advice but didn't see himself as the front man Freddie was suggesting or how Freddie performed with Ibex I don't believe Freddie was trying to push Tim out where have you seen or had the impression that Brian had to defend Tim that Freddie was actually trying to replace him? because I haven't seen anything I've seen Brian and Roger together and Roger separately saying Freddie suggested himself when Tim left and 'felt' he 'may ' have always been interested in joining them but no suggestion that Freddie had actually suggested that when Tim was with them I was writing responses as I was working through your comment. I'm a bit confused I thought you were suggesting Freddie was pushing Tim out of the way and Brian probably had to defend him, I haven't seen anything to suggest that it came across that Tim was genuine about Freddie and explaining the situation but seemed to t hen be convinced that maybe Freddie had planned to nudge him out of the way I can't see that it's wrong if Brian is feeding him that idea when I haven't seen Brian say that or Roger who clearly says he suggested himself when Tim left in retrospect he may have wanted to join them before Brian has a habit of implying he knows things or even re telling as if he was there then later explaining he wasn't 'Freddie and Bowie came to blows' Mack' Bowie was getting pushy with producing so I rang Fred to come smooth things out' Brian ' oh well I wasn't actually there' he implies he knows what Freddies songs are about and they are keeping it secret then admits Freddie never explain the list goes on! a few of their commentary videos Brian has talked as if it was his song or a band collab and Roger has had to politely remind him it was his (Roger) song! Brian was talking about who wants to live forever he said his marriage was over at the time and his Dad had died who hadn't died until years later! I don't like things I've seen implying it was Brians band he then allowed Freddie to join when Tim left Brian the 'mastermind' behind Queen
According to ken testi Roger and Brian took a lift with Freddie up to Liverpool to watch Ibex/wreckage Edit I assumed the article I saw was right that they were doing another gig. Testi said they performed as wreckage. So no they didn't kick him out and if they had they wouldn't have then helped him
@@dearjagigen1093 Oh…okay. 💁🏾♀️ In that case: Roger and Brian *were 100% hottest in the 70’s-90’s. Tho I’d beg to differ as Deacy (John Deacon) & Freddie were both very hot in the 70’s thru 90’s as well 😉!
Dok gledam ovaj intervju o kraljici. Pandemiji na um. Lijepo bi bilo da svi iz Kraljice.posle ove zemaljskog života što je normaln. Niko nije besmrta. Vozila bih da svi ovi momci dobiju biste pored Freda.???🙇❤💋
