Peter Hince Interview 

Peter’s book is hilarious lol

Thanks for listening Donnalea.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Things haven't changed then.

It wasn't him dressed in drag...it was shitty music, period. The band hit the skids in '82 with Hot Space and they never really recovered. The only two decent albums they made after that were A Kind Of Magic and Innuendo. I've been a fan since '75 where my first listen of Bo Rap absolutely blew my mind. Lots of Queen fans here in the states...Freddie, Elton, David, Rob just to name a few...no one cared about how they pranced around. It was ALL about the music. The "USA is homophobic" thing is outright pathetic.

@byron lemay @Linda Rogers Ouch! Byron, Your surprising opinion that Queen "hit the skids in '82 & " never recovered" other than AKind of Magic & INNUENDO is doubtful according to most people. You are certainly entitled to yr opinion but have you forgotten THE WORKS album released after them in February 1984 with Radio Ga GA !!! Hammer TO Fall !!!, IS THIS THE WORLD WE CREATED!!! Tear It Up !!!, ITS A Hard LIFE !!!, Man ON THE Prowl !!! , Keep Passing THE Open Window ??? And what about LIVE AID ??? Greatest Performance by a rock band ever !!! And WEMBLEY !!!??? GEEZ, HARDLY "SHITTY MUSIC" as you say !!! Nothing they did was ever shitty music according to millions of fans. I am also a fan since Queen & Queen II & in most Queen fans' opinions, their less successful albums were no way shitty, just not great like the big hit favorites... some of their ' less popular ' songs are favorites of people even tho not as profitable such as a few of mine... Man On The Prowl... Dreamers Ball ... My least fave album is The Miracle album, but I just couldn't get past those obnoxious little kids, but still... it doesn't qualify as shitty! I love every concert & every video & every song partially for nostalgic reasons but Freddie's voice, Roger's amazing drum contributions, John's perfect bass & most of all, Brian on the Red Special makes sounds no other guitar ever made. A few songs I didn't initially care have become faves of mine oddly... such as '39... took me awhile to even understand what the hell he was singing. And their KNEBWORTH live concert was truly amazing, never knowing then it would be Freddie's last no less. The AIDS was rearing its first signs of exhaustion for Freddie & he knew according to later remarks, it was probably going to be his last. The bravery that man exemplified as il l as he was & in unspeakable pain while making the snippets of songs for the future MADE IN HEAVEN album was typical of him. For his fans... sorry, but NOTHING QUEEN DID EVER WAS SHITTY. If you truly want to see the pain he was in, Watch a movie called THE NORMAL HEART starring Mark Ruffalo (won for Best Actor at SCREEN ACTORS GUILD awards that year. A story about the first appearance of a suspected "gay mens' cancer ' without any way to stop it, originally called GRID, & years later became HIV/AIDS , it shows how many years it took for President Reagan to allot money for research. GRID appeared in 1981 in NY, my husband & I lived there & witnessed the gay community begging for research for Reagan to make it a top priority & he finally did in 1985, but in 1986 he reduced the amount of funds & by the end of 1986 there were already 25,000 deaths from it in NY. ( I got these facts from seeing that movie yesterday) ... So, from the first signs of a "gay virus " thru 2014 the year that movie was made, 36million more worldwide have died of HIV/AIDS AND... more than 6,000 people DAILY are newly infected with HIV !! So. very possibly had Reagan supported better funds for research in 1981 instead of 1986 when he signed it, & the medicines were found that treat it & they didn't have to die IF THEY COULD AFFORD THE MEDS WHICH 90% OF THEM COULD NOT) then Freddie would VERY LIKELY be alive today, making music, performing. Brian May stated it was about 1 & 1/2 yrs after Freddie died in November 1991 that the new meds were found to allow a normal life. It truly broke my heart watching the movie yesterday, I had never actually seen what a late term AIDS patient's body deteriorated into & now understand what he was going thru recording those last tapes. Do a search on yr TV, (no kids around, please.) Roger Taylor's COCKTAILS FOR LIFE song is about this expensive med yet unavailable to many. Sorry to go off on a separate tangent, Freddie's death could have been avoided if only research dollars came earlier. I could scream at the injustice of that fact.

@@susancooper3111 Susan thank you with all my heart for this statement. I would give Him a part of my life. Or I would take some of his pain. Unfortunately it's impossible. Thank you very much.😘

@@susancooper3111 Thank you for that statement because it was the political homophobics in American that put a stop on the drag video. They wanted them to redo the video to be shown on MTV . Queen refused to. They also black balled the record on some radio stations...PS I to have been a fan since 1975 Bohemian Rapsardy. 🇺🇸

I don’t think Peter Hince meant it literally.