Queen - White Queen (A Night At The Odeon - Hammersmith 1975) Reaction 

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You are right they were all locked in!!!

I was blessed to see Queen live in Syracuse NY 1975 and this is my all time favorite bands, favorite frontman (Freddie Mercury) favorite songs and live performance.....ever! I totally enjoyed your reaction and your enthusiasm in Queen and believe me, once a Queenie, always a Queenie, I've been one 48 years and counting! 💙🌈👑

It’s sooo beautiful, a lot more Queen coming!!

@@TheCottons 🥳

His long fingers on the ivories does it for me. The piano isn’t as pronounced on the album.

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It really does!

Wow thank you for the fun facts! We will look up those drawings, we had no clue he drew as well! We are LOVING the Queen rabbit hole! Thank you for your support!

You got your facts right!💕

@@TheCottons Freddie's degree was in Graphic Design from Ealing College in London where he met Tim Staffell and they became friends. Tim was the lead singer and bass player in a group called Smile along with Brian May and Roger Taylor. Tim invited Freddie to watch Smile perform and Freddie was impressed by the group. He began following Smile whenever he could (he was in a different group called Wreckage out of Liverpool at the time). He became good friends with Roger and Brian. In fact, Freddie and Roger shared a flat and ran a booth in the Kensington Market in London selling "vintage clothing" together. They were poor college students who needed to eat. When Tim left Smile to join another (and more successful) group called Humpy Bong, Brian and Roger were so devastated that they considered quitting music. Their good friend Freddie talked them out of quitting and encouraged them to form a new group. Brian and Roger began looking for a new lead singer until Freddie informed them that who they needed was him. The problem was neither Brian nor Roger had actually heard Freddie sing. So they agreed to give him a chance and Brian booked a rehearsal hall at his University to audition Freddie. Roger claimed when he first heard Freddie he thought he sounded a bit like a billy goat (Freddie hadn't developed his singing to the point that he knew how to properly use his extremely fast and strong vibrato yet). Still, Freddie's singing did impress them but what really snowed them was his amazing stage presence. The Freddie they knew tended to be shy and reserved but onstage a different Freddie emerged. His confidence, chutzpah, and emotional presentation of each song shocked the heck out of them and they loved it. They formed a new group and Freddie insisted it must be called Queen (Glam rock was very big in London at the time). Brian and Roger didn't really like it but, as they soon learned, if Freddie REALLY wanted something, it was nearly impossible to deny him. He just had that way about him. Queen began looking for a bass player and went through 4 or 5 before they found 19-year-old, John Deacon. He not only had the technical skill to match theirs, but his personality meshed with the other three. Freddie, who was 5 years older, immediately took John under his wing and began mentoring him. John and Freddie developed a close big brother/little brother relationship that lasted until Freddie's death.

@@Sassypaws4927 And this is the history that was missing in the movie! I love reading about their university days. It's fascinating stuff. Much better than the Hollywood version (yes, I'm still complaining all these years later).

Definitely adding to the list!🙌🏽

Wow! What a privilege you had.

The drums are awesome! So deep and mellow.

@@bandmom3505 Yes, indeed.. also, the entire band..

It is true that Freddie couldn't really dance but the Royal Ballet of London didn't seem to care because in 1979, his friend Wayne Eagling, a choreographer and principal dancer for The Royal Ballet, asked Freddie to join them for a charity performance to be held at the London Coliseum to raise money for mentally handicapped children. Though he’s no dancer, Freddie rips around the stage with infectious energy-energy that hopefully raised a lot of money for charity that evening. At a time when the fusion of ballet and pop music wasn’t commonplace, it thrilled-and perhaps shocked-audiences. According to Freddie, “They had me practicing at the barre and all that, stretching my legs … trying to do things in a week that they’d been doing for years,” he told The London Evening News. “It was murder. After two days I was in agony. It was hurting me in places I didn’t know I had, dear.” Yes, there is a video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Jh71Cn8ZEzE.html (Unfortunately, this clip doesn’t preserve the performance’s original audio, which featured a seamless blend of Mercury’s vocals and a live orchestral arrangement. )

Agree 100%

Most of Freddie's stage moves come from his boxing days. Others...well, it's obvious 😉 (some of his scaffolding work, for example 🔥)

@@JanS1 Some of his moves were from his boxing but not all. Basically, he just let the music guide his moves and his moves were basically unchoreographed.

Deaky was a dancer

I agree!!!

I agree also! Very best version of it.

Thank you!

Thank you for watching!!

Brian wrote this.

AGREED!!!

REALLY??? Yikes it must be AMAZINGGGGG!!

@@TheCottons It issss🥰🥰🥰

Me too.

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Will do!🙌🏽

Yes so good! We did that one a few weeks ago, check it out!😀 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s6vZdjqY85Y.html

@@TheCottons I didn't realize you had, now that I've subscribed I won't miss out on any of them. I'll look before I give more than this suggestion...One Vision live at Wembley 😃

oh snap! What song would you recommend?

hahaha I get called Ne-Yo once a week. I don't see it.