Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - BARCELONA | FIRST TIME REACTION 

I did NOT know that. I do know Freddie said this was a dream come true.

It is hard to believe this has been over 35 years ago. Freddie died just a couple years later. Actually Monserrat passed away in 2017. She outlived Freddie by 29 years.

@@californiagold3857 .....6th of October 2018...details matter💐

She also asked Freddie “how many songs are on a record?” He said,”10”! She told him “Then write me an album.” So, Freddie did! In UNDER A MONTH! ❤ We lost someone incredible in losing these two giants of music 😢 in our own lifetimes 😢❤

@@ThomasTallantI have read in several places that Freddie in his off time used to go to the Opera many times. But? Until he went to hear her? He NEVER considered it before. He’d concluded it would be a dream unfulfilled! 😢❤❤❤❤

Yes!! ♥️♥️

Omg yes ❤️

Yes! It's my favorite!

Totally agree Leticia: ) there is even a better version, with only Freddie singing it, the link is ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mBD9QbtBU2g.html

YES!!! I so hope @BroAction reacts to their collaboration . . . more so than Freddie alone. Please!!!

Another duo which also is spectacular is James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti singing "It's A Man's World". I think you"ll love it!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GaB9F3R9cIY.html

👏👏👏👏 Thank you for telling the story behind this.... I was going to, but my comment would've been ridiculously long!!😂🤣 PERFECT summation!! 😎❤ I left a link in my comment for the guys to an interview with Freddie and Montserrat. You can see the adoration she has for Freddie through the entire interview if your interested.... it's adorable!! 🤗 Great comment! Peace and light....

@@tinagilbert8902 you've made my day, I've never had anyone praise me for being succinct before, they usually complain I'm too wordy. But it is s great story and I will check out the link as I've not seen the interview, thanks

BRAVO

Can you imagine the gig they're having up there? x

@@rde4017 absolutely! They seem to have been very good friends

@@eviekelpie1 they were very very fond of one another, but I had to laugh when Freddie, after working with her for a long time on that album, said he really enjoyed working with a diva (not sure if that's the word he used but something like that) but he's glad to get back to Queen 😆

Freddie had the bathroom at the studio redecorated just for her. They truly loved one another

Yes but unfortunately he can be there, he dies before that

It was recorded and released in 1987. 5 years before Barcelona olympics.

@@badrobot3159 yes, but it was the oficial song on the Olympics five years later.

@@badrobot3159 Barcelona was written & recorded in 1987, specifically for the 1992 Olympics. Oct.1986, Barcelona was selected to host the 92 games. Early 87, Montserrat, a Barcelona native, was asked to do a song for those games. She & Freddie decided to collaborate on it (she then suggested they do a whole album). Due to the deadline to submit songs for consideration, Barcelona was done 1st (released as a single Oct. 87). The album was finished later (released Oct. 88). When the Committee chose Barcelona as the official song, Freddie then told Montserrat he was ill & wouldn’t be alive to perform it at the 92 games. Freddie & Montserrat did perform it 3 times. If you watch their Oct. 88 performance at La Nit, in Barcelona, it was staged for an Olympic event (the arrival of the Olympic flag from Seoul), with the Olympic symbol & “Barcelona 92” projected behind them.

Yes!!!

It's a jaw dropper!

Also Rachmaninov's Revenge. It blew my mind when I 1st ever heard it 👍

@@nataliebagshaw2773 But not every time you hear it, hmm? 🤔

@@SpaceCattttt sorry what do you mean?

Yes, also Impromptu, arguably the best example available is from Wembley 1986. @BroAction, You asked about other collaborations . . . Freddie and Montsy can't really be topped, but there are some other very topnotch/cool/interesting/unlikely collaborations by dissimilar artists, for anyone who might be interested in looking into them - this is only a shortlist - Country music legend Loretta Lynn with rocker Jack White of The White Stripes, "Portland, Oregon". Fantastic. Led Zep's Robert Plant with bluegrass angel Alison Krauss, albums "Raising Sand" and "Raise the Roof". "Gone Gone Gone" is a good single to start out with. "Raising Sand" took all five Grammys in the album categories it was nominated for. Tony Bennett, song-stylist legend, with Lady GaGa, albums "Cheek to Cheek" and "Love for Sale", both are superb. Total rock legend Tina Turner, no description needed for her, "Cose Della Vita", with Eros Ramazzotti, Italian pop singer, late '90s pop fabulousness. A lightweight tissue-thin song in itself, it's just regular pop, however great sound and a charismatic pairing. I wouldn't put this one in The Realm of Greatness but, you can't go wrong with Ms. Turner. She was not unlike Freddie Mercury in showmanship and her ability to elevate anything she was doing. "Unchained", the album from Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Flea, and Fleetwood Mac. The whole album is great but a fine single to start with from this is "The Running Kind". Also Cash, from 1969, with Bob Dylan: "Girl From the North Country". Wonderful.

🍻🥂 Cheers!!

There’s NOTHING that Freddie couldn’t sing! It’s 30 years later after his passing and he is still bringing amazement to the generations of people who weren’t even born in his time! That will never end because Queen was so talented musical driven… they are truly legendary!!

STILL singing in Heaven I’m quite sure!❤

It was in 1987 actually for the 92' Barcelona Olympics. Freddie already had AIDS and and before they took place. I could be wrong but I think this was his last live show.

@@antonkider7360 This performance wasn't live. Freddie's last live performance was in 1988 at the Dominion theater in London for the 'Time' musical

@@dixienormous2440 Thanks for the info mate.

YESSSS

Never Never my King never die

Is true.Freddie Forever.

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Yeah ok

​@@Kelly-just-kellydon't roll your eyes bitch 🤬

100% agree especially it was only meant to be 1 song but she met him and said how many songs are in a album he told her and they ended up doing a whole album brilliant 😊😊👍👍

Ps Freddie in exercise in free love is just fantastic 💖

@@nataliebagshaw2773 I am obsessed with Exercises in Free Love! And reaction videos to it. Was there anything this man couldn't do?

Me too and from what I heard that was his sample to send to her. I'm with you on that there was nothing he couldn't do. Even his Mr. Bad guy album has got a song on what's got a Reggie beat which I love. He could turn his hand to anything and it worked didn't it ❤️

@@nataliebagshaw2773 yes, “Exercises in Free Love” was a guide vocal he gave to her - it was Freddie singing *her* part on a song he was writing, to give her an idea of what he wanted her to do - she put words to it, and the song became their duet Ensueño, with Freddie singing in his natural baritone at Monserrat’s request.

totally agree!

I never read that quote - thank you for bringing it here.

Try Streisand & Barry Gibb, 'What Kind of Fool'

I always cry thru GUIDE ME HOME 😭😭

Yes, Bijou!!

Pls add Let us cling together ( Teo Torriate)

Simmmm 🇧🇷