Let's talk about Freddie Mercury. Vocal Analysis of "Don't Stop Me Now" performed LIVE by Queen 

Wow damn. As a 2005 fan of Queen and Freddie mercury I feel sad I never had the chance to see him on live, it must had been INCREDIBLE, they were so talented

I’ve seen Freddie in concert once. Memorable doesn’t even cut it. What I’ve recently learned is Freddie’s death was caused by Dr Anthony Fauci. Look up HIV patent in the USA & Fauci’s injecting gay men in NYC against ‘Hep B’ but it was really HIV/Aids.

I saw them 3 times.. first one in Jan. 1978.. I was 17... and we got to meet the band briefly in a Holiday Inn lunch room.. Freddie was just as you described.. he signed autographs, and was basically very shy and sweet.. the rest of the band were also funny and Brian May even had the presence of mind to ask us when we asked for an autograph: "ought we to sign TWO?" -- and we were so dazzled, we had never even thought of that... lol.. YES, please?

The 80's were such a bigoted time in the U.S. for LGBT people. SMH

@@joblessmonday7954 Saw them early 80's. By the last song of the night, NO-ONE was sitting. An idiot media person interviewing them once asked Freddie "And what do you play?" He responded "The audience."

Probably not

Absolutely

​@@JacobSummerhill wym. Name someone who is actually better

@@NicolWUJ Aretha Franklin, even freddie said himself shes better and one of his biggest idols. Ray Charles goes without saying. Michael Jackson. Al Green 100%

Dude got some serious pipe on him

Agreed. Roger Taylor never gets any love...

You must hear Drowse from Queen, what a great example of Roger Vocals.

Absolutely! Queen's next best vocalist, and a superlative musician and composer.

Loved your analysis ofthe BEST Rock vocalist ever!😊 Please cn you do an analysis of "Love Of My Life"

Possibly the top contender for the best live performance is Bobby Hatfield singing “Unchained Melody” in 1965 on the Andy Williams show. The video is on RU-vid. Check out his voice control and the incredible high notes he hits at the end.

It's the other way.. Unquestionably the best live singer. Michael Jackson the best live performer.

He had the best performance at the biggest concert ever Live Aid 1985 all bands were there even Led Zeppelin. Mind you AIDS was already affecting him bad then.

@@Typeshytv3me Live Aid isnt even that big nowadays. He was also not affect by aids Mid 1985

@@JacobSummerhill no shit it’s not big cause it’s 2024😂 and just cause he had aids doesn’t downgrade the performance he put on.

The song is Under Pressure, just in case you (reactor) don't know. That note is crazy good. Nice to see it being mentioned.

Thats definitely not the highest note. Elton used to do that for breakfast

Written for ‘the love of his life’, Mary…his ex-wife, and of whom he left his entire estate. She was his constant, and best friend through everything…

Obviously he was created to be a sensational singer/ performer/songwriter/ genius!

And the song listens like an race engine running, revying up and down and changing gears. Also good to see Freddie playing the piano as it looks the cylinders of an engine up and down.

That's a great observation. When she spoke of his choice to take a breather there, it just didn't ring true for me. Your take makes more sense.

Ahhh I so agree with you, this is Queen’s most underated Masterpiece! Its a shame…..poor Brian ❤

Agree with everything except Freddie approaching Brian & Roger when they were in Smile. Smile was Brian, Roger, and Tim Staffell on bass & lead vocals. Freddie was a friend/classmate of Tim's at the Ealing Art College in Lindon. All four shared a flat in London! Brian and Tim were friends from much earlier, meeting in 1964, and formed a band called 1984.Staffell left Smile to join Humpty Bong, and then later Morgan. While with Humpty Bong, Tim moved out, and just Brian, Roger, and Freddie shared the flat. At this same time, Brian was in gradate school at Imperial College of London, and a Math instructor at the school. Freddie and Roger owned a second hand clothing shop in Kensington Square. Ruger was studying to be a dentist. Freddie sang in other bands: Ibex/Wreckage, (1969) which was a Liverpool based band, thus briefly Freddie move to Liverpool. Freddie returned to London joined Oxford based Sour Milk Sea in later that year, but the band broke up in early 1970. As Freddie was again living with Brian and Roger, he tried to persuade them to return to music. Freddie finally convinced them to restart "Smile". The band changed bass players several times before John Deacon joined in 1971. At that time, they renamed this new band Queen - and honed their craft while still in school/working their other jobs. Queen signed on with Trident Studios in 1971, but their debut album wasn't released until 1973. In the mean time, Trident hired Freddie as a solo artist, using the stage name "Larry Lurex", producing very heavily Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" singles. Check out "I can Hear Music" (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WzA4OyalTuI.htmlsi=uR2wzqSrOxsS3QQE) or "Going Back" (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7WdlrQ1El1k.htmlsi=fZhLLaNx6UhJjtG-) Guess who were session musicians on these tracks? Brian & Roger!! One final bit of trivia - Tim Staffell when on to become the Chief Model Maker for the children's show "Thomas the Tank Engine".

They also changed freddies life. Freddie would be nothing without Rogers drumming and backing vocals and Brian's guitar. They all contributed to songwriting too.

"The Prophet's Song" ART ART ART

@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek Ahhh - "nothing"? That competent artists will "always" become more than "nothing"..

Montreal '81 was supposed to be an awesome performance. You're quite lucky to have experienced it.

@amazon4219 it was 2 fantastic nights of Queen when they were at the height of their game, an awesome experience.

I was there both nights, tickets were stupidly cheap back then, then were around $20.00 a ticket.

OMYGHAAAD YOU'RE SO LUCKY 😭😭😭😭

@fl-g15ramirezscullylou87 Thanks, I was lucky enough to see Queen 4 times with Freddy. The last time on their 1982 Hot Space Tour which would be the last North American Tour with Freddy Mercury.

Billy Joel plays the piano and harmonica while singing "Piano Man" (with plenty of energy expended on each, I may add). I got winded just watching him, lol. He may not do all three any more as he's gotten older. 7:21

He didn'thave four extra incisors as stated in the travesty of a film (I'm surprised that ex-dental student Roger Taylor let that one pass through!) He may, or may not, according to who you believe (Mick Rock or Peter 'Phoebe' Freestone) have had four extra molars (the rear grinding teeth, incisors are the front cutting teeth)

I would like to hear her sing.

This was after live killers was already released. This was their crazy tour at the end of 1979

​@@stephenfrasure9351 You are correct. I did not notice that this was from the Hammersmith Odeon concert. It is so similar to the way Freddie performed the song in Paris earlier that year that I thought it was from that concert. Too many years have passed which makes it easier to not clearly remember everything. The Paris dates were at the end of February and the 1st of March 1979. I was at the February 27th concert that was one of the dates that was being recorded for "Live Killers". The video looked a little bit darker than I remembered but I figured that was because of the age of the video. Freddie sang the song the same as far as I remember which is not always the case from Queen tour to Queen tour.

He died of AIDS. It would have taken medication which did not exist at the time to keep him from dying.

L.A. - Yeah he wasn't at his vocal best in that, he had been recovering from illness. "Who Wants to Live Forever" live at Wembley is great.