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Freddie is hands down the best front man in music history
No debate
MICHAEL JACKSON
@@LcZuffa he's a solo not a front man. Also I have a hard time placing any child molesters on the "best of" anything
In pure charisma and fitting the image of what you expect a frontman would be, I have to put Jim Morrison super high too. I once saw a video of a live performance of Light My Fire which consisted of a few minute span of him just moving around the stage during the instrumental part, and it was amazing how captivating his stage presence was.
Freddie's vocal range and skill obviously blows Morrison's away though.
@@Funktaro5 Definitely. Freddie Mercury and Jim Morrison (and I'm not the biggest Door's fan) are two of the all-time great frontmen. Robert Plant of Zeppelin is up there as well. I don't know if they have the same legendary status as though three, but I have to give it up for Chris Cornell of Soundgarden/Audio Slave, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine.
Roger Taylor the drummer has amazing vocals as well specially his falsetto
Taylor is a beast
Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon all had great voices.
not just drummmer !!! but the entire band had great vocals !!
@Blondie053 He is :))
He has great voice
Freddie passed November 24, 1991 and left a huge hole in all our hearts. So thankful for these recordings.
He's a jazz, soul, blues, rock, metal, opera... you name it singer. He could literally do all genres hands down.
No auto tune No voice enhancing equipment just pure natural talent something we don’t hear today.
yeah, just overdubbed vocal
i m french so beautfull,,,,merci vive usa..
Copy that dude.
Yes ,he was different then other singers. And he hit the notes in a live show. Was a fucking genius. He shine bright wen he was alive... Love queen music among great artists
Well said, sorely missed..by sori too!
Best. Frontman. Ever.
Period,full stop.
TRUE
Agreed
Amen
Freddie wasnt a star, he was a freakin comet. and yes, his departure was soul crushing
I still cry every time I listen to everything on CZcams.
very soul crushing, I was 12 when I fell in love with freddie and queen, I'm still in love with freddie and queen, I just cry, he's awesome, rest in peace darling ❤❤
I was 18 when Freddie passed away. It was one of the worst days of my life. He kept his illness from the public, so when the news was released, nobody saw it coming. It felt like having the breath knocked out of you. 😭 He’s the absolute best. Nobody will ever come close. ❤️
Fantastic Performance Love Freddiepp
Freddie Mercury is the absolute greatest frontman to ever grace the stage and Queen is brilliant, they're my favorite band.👑🌈💙
19 here and so very sad
Hey,
Brian May was doing thrash metal before it had a name. And Superman wears a
Freddie Mercury shirt.
God may be good, but he is no Freddie Mercury.
@@Zaxamaphone the FUCK??
Karolyn Hoover lol
Carlos DeNevier freddie*
Karolyn you are correct. Check out Stone Cold Crazy if you don’t think Queen could do metal
It’s like the whole world is rediscovering Queen. These reaction videos filling CZcams are priceless! I watch them as often as I can!
Itsjusta Nothername my sons loved Queen already (1 is 19 and 1 is 16) because my husband and I always played them. I was a huge Queen fan because of my Dad (born in 1970). It is fantastic that this movie has exposed Queen to a whole new generation! Bohemian Rhapsody was the #1 streamed song in 2018, if I’m not mistaken and the movie didn’t even come out until the beginning of November!!! 💁🏻♀️💁🏻♀️💁🏻♀️
Itsjusta Nothername it’s the film released by n November 2nd... I cringe when I realize how many people have never heard them but I suppose that’s the magic and true gift of the film... resurgence of the majesty that is Queen!
Yeah, I´m 54 and it´s fun for me to watch all this YT Queen reaction videos.
It was the concert that made all of America love them. Although I had already had their albums in the 70s and loved them. They had a hard time getting fame in America
He died in 1991 at age 45.
I was in the front row for this show.
That must have been amazing. I would have loved to have seen Queen in person before Freddie died.
👏😮👏WOW
I need your autograph .
Omg 😱 I can’t even imagine what that felt like.I still wouldn’t be over it!
Freddie’s showmanship was through the roof
Big facts!!
Freddie Mercury said in an interview that he is not the leader of the band he is the lead singer and that they are all equal.
When Freddie died i was 13 yrs old and i cried a week and sometimes i still cry today. Now i have a 5 yr old son i named Freddie and he and his little brother, both love Queen.
that is probably the best tribute for Freddie for you to name your son after him.
Did you name his little brother John or Roger? Please say you did.
Nina 😅 actually we thought about it but Roger and John is quite unusual here in Germany. So only Brian was an option. But as we have watched “Life of Brian” too often, it wasn’t really 😉
@@roterstern1301 LOL...I understand.
There's so much to be said about this. No auto-tune. They can all sing. They're all talented at playing instruments. No one will ever compare to the way he fronts a band. How he struts his stuff on stage. I've been to plenty of concerts. No one struts the way he does. He will always be #1. He owns the stage and audience. He knew how to balance his pride with his charisma. He knew he was the best. But he wasn't a cocky asshole about it.
12:12 exactly! They're all amazing...and Roger Taylor is an absolute beast on the drums and backing vocals
Now...you gotta react to Live Aid Concert....the best ever by any band....and in that show Led Zepplin played too and i am a batshit die-hard Zepplin fan ....but for me that day Queen dominated the show.
React to it...it is just one of the greatest.
Alongbar Narzary They really should.
Zeppelin blocked that performance from being released on tribute albums, they were that embarrassed by it.
They were underprepared and hadn’t practiced properly with the fill-in drummers.
Shmick !....correct me if i am wrong but i felt like they were still trying to cope from the tragedy that the band suffere....and i am no expert but I felt....well...they played off everything...and no wonder that was an embarrasment to them
Alongbar Narzary yeah I’d say that’s probably true, and they just assumed that they could just cobble a band together at the last minute to do a 20 min set.
If I remember the quote from the concert was that Queen stole the show
The UK truly mourned when Freddie Mercury died. This was a man in band who totally mesmerized crowds of hundreds of thousands of people with no modern trickery. He and them were legendary and it was an honour to witness their amazing talent.
The world mourned Freddy!! A horrible loss!
apart from those trash tabloid idiots, but he just had such a huge presence, i mean growing up, thinking about it now, Queen had already been around since the 70s, and their songs were always on the radio, yet even at school, kids singing ‘we are the champions on a football win, he was just so much a part of culture, with the rest of the band. what’’s amazing for me though, is that revisiting it all these years later, there’s all this stuff i never knew about, we had liveaid, but never had access to seeing this and totally missed his phenomenal singing with Montserrat.
We all did.
He's of Indian heritage born in Zanzibar, I think. family moved to England when he was young.
H was 18 years old when they moved to England 🏴 However he had been educated at a proper English boarding school.
@Donald Duck they didn't flee to India, the family fled Zanzibar to London.
@Donald Duck Parsis are basically Iranians who settled in India.
@Donald Duck Wasn't contradicting u mate.. Many people have no clue who Parsis are. I pass his house in the UK every week or so and give it a wave.
Born in Zanzibar, made in England.
if this mans voice dont give ya goose bumps...there is just something wrong, wrong, terribly wrong with you.
Absolutely!! 💯💯💯
Fuck yeah.. who doesn't like at least a queen song?
The guitar player, Brian May is very underrated. When us normal mortals are asked who are the best guitar players, it is easy to pick a Top 10 list of who we think are the best. But, what your peers have to say about you is another story.
In a March issue of Guitar World magazine, the cover story is 30 on 30. Thirty guitarists reviewing the work of 30 other guitarists. Steve Vai wrote about Brian.
KING OF QUEEN
BRIAN MAY
BY STEVE VAI
"I don't think enough is really said about the brilliance of Brian May's guitar playing, in the sense that it's overshadowed by the music itself. The Queen II album was one of those pivotal moments that just nailed me to the wall.
"He's probably one of the top identifiable guitar players, even more so than Beck, Page, and Clapton. They're all so identifiable, but Brian May has such a tone in his head and in his fingers. It speaks volumes. His contribution to orchestrated guitars is unprecedented. There was nothing like it before him. To me, it was like when Edward Van Halen came along and reshaped the sound of electric guitar. That's what I heard in Brian May's playing. It's something that's inherent in the brain of the guitar player.
"I remember working with Frank Zappa for the first time. I had just moved out to Los Angeles, and nobody knew me. I was 21. I went out to the Rainbow Bar and Grill, and Brian May was there. I couldn't believe it. I mustered up every little bit of courage and went up to him and said, 'Thank you so much for everything you've done. I play guitar. I'm here in town with Frank Zappa.' He said 'Oh really? Why don't you come down to our rehearsal?'
"I went down and he brought me up on the stage, and he let me play the guitar - the guitar that he built with his dad [the "Red Special"]. I couldn't even believe that I was touching this instrument! He was so kind and so warm, and for who? This kid, you know? And I played his guitar, and it sounded like Steve Vai. Then when he played it, it sounded just like Brian May. It was very apparent to me that his tone is in his fingers and his head.
"He's a class act from head to toe, and it shows in his playing. I can listen to any player and pantomime their sound, but I can't do Brian May. He's just walking on higher ground."
I don't know any knowledgable Queen fan who thinks that. However, Freddie did write the headbanging guitar riff. Brian said it was a "pig of a riff" to play because it was a piano riff that didn't fit the guitar well.
He has a unique way of playing, of holding the hands and the guitar. Hardly uses his left hand pinky, and right hand is kept almost still except for constantly adjusting the guitar. Think his guitar can make 27 different sounds.
Laila: actually, he uses his index finger and pinky on root/V power chords, and on scalar passages on the low strings as he passes to them from higher notes. The low notes on the solo to Tie Your Mother Down is a prime example.
@@KevinWale Thanks for the info :)
Pretty much anyone who was listening at the time Queen came onto the scene knew Brian May was one of the gods of the guitar universe. Your generation simply doesn't have the benefit of knowing the music of that time as well as we do/did. Ask me to name great young guitarists from the current era and I'm pretty clueless.
You probably would enjoy this recent May performance: czcams.com/video/lKLr-w80C2E/video.html
For me... The best front man in rock history!
Queen did metal and every genre you have ever heard. Go deep. Best ever. Saw them 7 times. Love Freddie forever.
If you loved this, you HAVE to watch their entire Live Aid set. It’s 21 minutes-possibly ( probably) the greatest 21 minutes anyone has ever done in terms of pure stagecraft. When Queen finished their set, Elton John went up to them and hugged them all backstage and then said “You f***ers, there’s no point in anyone else going onstage now. You’ve stolen the whole show!”
I think this was better than Live Aid
@@el34glo59 Me to
Also do Dont Stop Me Now by Queen!!!
OH YEAH !! love that song , and also "Keep yourself alive" !
Summon Liiva one of the greatest vocal tracks in the history of Rock...nice choice!
“He had 10 years left from the shooting of this video.”
Yes, and it was EXACTLY 10 years to the day. The Montreal show was shot on November 24th, 1981, and we lost Freddie on November 24th, 1991.
😭 когда говорят о его смерти, глаз наливаются слезами.
Crazy. I was born Nov 81
What an absolute genius. They broke the mould when they made him he’s one of a kind. Also bear in mind that it was in 1981 with no technology behind them, just their collective pure talent.
Always happy to see people recognize the entire bands talent.. and especially Roger's talent with vocals and drums.. Priceless!
Freddie was desperately shy in real life but came alive on stage! and yes we Queen fans were gutted when he died in 1991
I broke down back in the day when his last video came out. It was obvious that he was sick.
Sarah Brooks still gutted tbh
sarah i always felt that outwith Queen fans the general public and especially those rats in the media never got freddie, they thought he was pretentious and a diva which could'nt be further from the truth! he was a kind and caring man with a great sense of humour but like you rightly said very shy, he said he could'nt walk into a room full of people on his own! 👑✊🇬🇧
Very nice to see you guys covering queen!! Freddie is the greatest vocalist of all time!
robert plant disagrees.
Yet Plant sounded like dying cats at that same show (Live Aid)... So yeah... 1985 disagrees with Plant... (And I'm a huge Zep fan).
Thanks for the great reaction. As an old rocker I’m still surprised at all the people seeming to just be discovering Queen, since I bought my first Queen album around ‘73 or 74. Still I couldn’t be happier about it. I love when people can still appreciate talent in this age of manufactured electronic pop dribble. Keep up the good work.
Still crushing now. Freddie Mercury was an exceptional singer and person. No equal to this day. This performance has got to be one of the best performances of all times. Glad we can relive it thanks to CZcams. It keeps Freddie alive in all of us. And who doesn't want somebody to love?
Yay, more Queen! Good stuff! I hope you'll do "The Show Must Go On" as well. Every note he hits in that one can send a chill down my spine
They will only find studio version since he never performed it live sadly 😢
@@peeweewallabowski7084 Ah fuck man, I didn't even think of that. Big sad indeed, RIP.
And how about innuendo? ;-)
@ oh yes! Beautiful song 😍
Esspecially "The Show Must Go On" because he wrote and performed this when he was already aware that he did not have much time left to live. When he finally annouced he was dying that song send shivers down my spine because it revealed the true meaning of the song.
“God loaned him to us”. That’s beautiful
6:53 Brian Mays guitar solos are ALWAYS on point!
Queen is one of the rare bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd that mesh together perfectly. How these bands came together is nothing short of musical miracles. And yea Freddie owns the stage.
And the Beatles. There are only one Beatles, one Floyd, one Zeppelin, and one Beatles. And will never be another
You should react to them in Live Aid concert :)
Live Aid is widely overrated as a Queen performance. It was THE performance of the venue, but Freddie is far from his best in that.
Guys, Welcome to the Church of Freddie. The, greatest frontman in rock and roll. That entire concert is available and Queen will knock you out with greatness. Enjoy.
Brian May-Guitarest-Doctor
Roger Taylor- Drummer-Dentist
John DeaconDeacon-Base GUITARIST- ELECTRICAL Engineer
Our Freddie-Grafic DESIGNER ❤❤
Actually roger didn't complete the dentist course and Freddie designed some of the record covers like their logo.
Pretty sure Brian May was an astrophysicist
Freddie was an extraordinary talent and human being.
Absolutely Epic. Freddie will never be matched. And Roger Taylor's vocals have always been so tragically overlooked. He's amazing in his own right. Just one of the best bands ever. You cannot watch clips of them live and not be enthralled.
Side note: Freddie was born Farrokh Bulsara. His family was from Zanzibar before moving to the UK and were Zoroastrian.
Tungus Grump Totally!
Just watching Roger Taylor hold his head uncomfortably tilted while drumming and singing is amazing. Brian Mays timely stepping to the mic. Even John deacons composure as this awesomeness was happening all around him makes him great by default. I don't leave one of them out. All talented, and consummate professionals. I absolutely love that about them.
They didn't take their talent for granted. Even their tribute song after freddie died was pure Queen. They could have gone on as a trio and still been queen. Forcing square pegs into a star-shaped hole doesn't really work for me.
It was "a kind of magic" for that cast that dwelled on the same page. Bringing in other permanent members would have to mean that they fit their mold. But Queens mettle was forged and tempered to it's apex.
@@rohe4077 - Everyone says "even John Deacon"....What the hell? Deaky wrote a pile of great songs including some of their biggest hits and was always listed as one of the top rock bassists.
@@susieq9801 I actually didn't mean it like that. It was kind of in the vain of pointing to him as vin and sori blanked him out.
Ok so, just some fun facts about Freddie’s vocal prowess!!
He had a four octave range, which is incredible. He could go from a F2 to a F6.
He had an “irregular” vibrato, which is rare.
His vibrato also went up to 7.04 hertz (the regular is 5.4-6.9)
Most incredibly - he used something called subharmonics, which most humans can’t access. This basically means that he used something called “ventricular folds” in his throat along with his vocal chords). Typically only certain ancient tribes and monks can utilize this area of the throat to make sound.
Simply - incredible. Then, you add his stage presence and you get magic.
Oh - and if no one responded yet, Freddie passed away in 1991.
His last video was “These are the Days of Our Lives”. It’s hard to watch, because he’s obviously very sick but, even still - his vocals are incredible. And he says a special “Good-Bye” to the world in the last line.
Never heard any of that. Thanks for the info. +++ :)
He says "I still love you" or rather whisper it, and each time it makes me bawl ...
Are the ventricular folds what causes his raspy voice? Like is this what Kurt Cobain or Paul McCartney used to have their raspy voices?
Max Kuzela - Hi, Max. The folds (sometimes called “false vocal chords”) are typically used to make very, very low sounds (think chanting by Tibetan monks or the Mongolian chants). Although they can be tapped into when heavy metal “screaming” occurs. I’m not really sure if Kurt Cobain could access them, as his voice was quite low, although I tend to think he just had a naturally low voice. I doubt Sir Paul uses them. Hope this helped! Happy New Year!
Laila Ulvseth - I 😢😢😢 every time!
Freddie Mercury is immortal. Truly blessed from somewhere above. I'm so jealous of you guys for getting to hear these songs for the first time. Queen will live on forever. One of the greatest bands of all time.
Freddie took the crowd to church...healed them and sent them home HAPPY! ❤️
Freddy was a musical genius and possibly the best frontman ever.
Did you know? Brian May is a Doctor of Astrophysics and was a "science team collaborator" with NASA's 'New Horizons' Pluto mission.
Really🤔🤔🤔🤔
He sure is a man of many talents. His guitar, the “Red Special”, was hand built by himself with the help of his father. The electronic switching was unique and has since been copied. The neck was made from a fireplace that was over a century old at the time.
He still plays only that guitar.
@@diice23 yep
What's so special about that? Studying reflected light from interplanetary dust and the velocity of dust in the plane of the Solar System is a piece of cake.
@@mikefraser4513 LOL
A MUST WATCH, the best live performance ever (with a throat infection): QUEEN - LIVE AID 1985
Queen is my favorite band ever and I was a teen during the 70’s and early 80’s. I cried when Freddie died. They were electrifying live! My best friend and I loved Queen and when she died last year, I played “You’re My Best Friend” at her funeral. I like to think she smiled down from Heaven and approved. I’m glad to see younger people enjoying Queen. Great reaction and review!
This reaction video shows two people falling in love with Freddie Mercury.
I watch so many of these. The only thing that can come close to experiencing these moments for the very first time is seeing someone else discover them for the first time. I love it
@Delinthefelon 3 You're interesting. From a delusional standpoint. Queen fans are usually very good natured people. But there have to be exceptions. I'd want you checked up on and monitored. Where do you live, bud?
3! Well this performance was a show just in the one song. Personally I would be satisfied with this song alone and if I was asked to leave after, wouldn't be sad at all. Freddy is a world treasure.
"God loaned him to us" Best quote ever! Freddie died on Nov.24, 1991, the same day as KISS' drummer Eric Carr. A terrible day I remember oh to well. Many of Queens song in retrospect are very eerie when you look at how and when he died. His last few years it was pretty obvious Freddie had AIDS and his music I think reflects that. His final song was The Show Must Go On. Tears!
His last vocals were on Mother Love. He couldn’t finish the last verse of the song bc he got too sick, so Brian sang it. The last time Freddie actually recorded his voice to a song was in May of 1991. Again that was Mother Love. I can’t listen to it without bawling my eyes out
Actually the Las song he sang was Mother Love And Brian had to sing the last verse because Freddie never made it back to finish it.
To watch others marvel at Queen it makes me most satisfied to know that their music is just as great now as when I saw them in 1980.
"Queen isn't a metal band."
Stone Cold Crazy.
The Hitman.
Gimme The Prize.
Ogre Battle.
Edit: Forgot Dead On Time.
Are all metal songs by Queen which i think you should react to.
Also sheer heart attack.
Sheer Heart Attack is Punk. Not metal.
I suppose so ,I could hear metallica covering it though
They're still not metal, metal elements, yes. Hitman, i think was their heaviest.
Forgive them, as they do not know. Most sadly do not know, all they know are the hits. Delve deeper and DAMN, not only Metal, but Blues, Jazz, Progressive, etc. They had it all.
Check out Live Aid 1985....its considered the greatest rock performance ever!
Queen stole the show at Live Aid - I was there at JFK stadium in Philadelphia and they simulcast from Wembley in London. I don't really remember a lot of the acts, but Queen, U2 and The Boomtown Rats (Bob Geldof singing "The lesson today is how to die" then pausing during "I don't like Mondays"), George Thorogood (he brought out Bo Diddley and Albert Collins), Mick Jagger and Tina Turner - Jagger tore off her skirt so she did the rest in a leotard, Phil Collins who flew from London so he could play at both concerts, the only one to do so. What a day, what a beautiful day we were blessed with.
Ashvat Bansal no it isn't
STEVEN HENNESEY
It is..
@@henneseysteven yes it is.
"Queen is not a metal band" - Stone Cold Crazy please :D
Live at the Rainbow, I'll add 😉
Nah, the Houston 1977 version. Clocks in at 1:56!
Queen transcended musical genres.
But they did do metal. Stone Cold Crazy is arguably the first thrash song..... 10 years before thrash was recognised as a genre.
They also did blues, ragtime, rock, rock and roll, prog, disco and more. Hell its easier to list the genres they didnt do
Agree, Queen founded Trash Metal!! The demo/extended version is very nice in my opinion...
One or two songs do not define your whole genre.
Freddie Mercury es una Leyenda. Su música es tan actual y que bien que las nuevas generaciones están descubriendo esta maravillosa Banda. Freddie está mas vivo que nunca!!
5:01 when freddie sees he's being recorded then unleashes heavens chorus and sounds amazing.
Since you're diversifying, why not try David Bowie? Space Oddity would be an awesome introduction
YEEEEES
Yes!!!!!
maybe - under pressure
Five years!
bowie 73-74 great. the rest??
Queen live @ Wembley stadium one of the greatest live performances of all time, most bands strive to play at Wembley, and pull the crowds that Queen did there. Only the greatest performers can put on a great live show, even better then a studio recording.
that was part of "live aid" many bands were at wembley that day. Queen just held the many thousands in the palm of their hands perfectly.
I was blessed enough to be at this concert and saw Queen twice more.
Thanks for the upload. Every Queen performance had this. Freddies favorite. When things were done totally live.
Queen is hands down the only band that sounds considerably better live than in the studio.
I actually prefer the Live at the Bowl '82 version in Milton Keynes, but that's just preferring something that is 100 % perfect over something (this) that is 99,9 % perfect ; )
the Bowl absolutely!
I think the hot space stuff they did there is absolutely amazing!
@@nickwall2497 Indeed, very funky and groovy. I absolutely love the Staying Power version they played there, and Back Chat and Action This Day are really nice too.
@@Fred_P They did calling all girls and put out the fire on the tour, japan i think
Roger vocals at the end of that version always kills me, and yeah Back Chat is definitly a banger on this one too
and action this day when they kinda improvised in the middle
hey guys freddie DID finally find someone to love he was with him until the day he died thankfully
Who?!
@heenez Freddie lived with him and Mary the woman he was with for years, She loved Freddie unconditionally, he loved her too, Freddie was actually bi..................
@@monicajean37
The 3 of them living together? Not too sure about that, Monica.
When Freddie admitted to being bi or gay, Mary moved out and in fact got married to another man and bore a son.
@heenez Marys relationship didn't work out and Her and her baby son moved back in with Freddie, she was also pregnant, Freddie loved her and her son, he left her his home and $$$. to this day she still lives there,,,,So yes, they all lived together, I just watched a whole documentary on him 🙂
@heenez Mercury moved out of the flat they shared, into 12 Stafford Terrace in Kensington and bought Austin a place of her own nearby.[64] They remained close friends through the years, with Mercury often referring to her as his only true friend. In a 1985 interview, Mercury said of Austin, "All my lovers asked me why they couldn't replace Mary [Austin], but it's simply impossible. The only friend I've got is Mary, and I don't want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage. We believe in each other, that's enough for me." czcams.com/video/M5mYz5ziMNc/video.html
Freddie Mercury is Indian. He's from a Parsi Gujarati family that migrated to an African country. A lot of Indian influence in his sound, especially his attempts at improvisation of melody n the chords that go into his music and the way he riffs..
The funniest Freddie stories are the ones about him sneaking Princess Diana out in drag to parties and gay clubs and also them watching golden girls. Its almost too perfect of a story.
Im glad you mentioned this i wouldve never knowed i had a good laugh reading the story online. Cheers
Yeah I remember Brian May saying that in an interview
Freddie was an Indian Parsi racially. His first band was at his school in Bombay, India.
Parsis migrated from Iran to India 1000 years ago after Islam took over Persia.
Yes, in the Bohemian Rhapsody movie, the first time he gets on stage to perform with Smile (replacing Tim Staffel), someone in the crowd yells, "Who's the Paki?"
Karen K
I'm guessing it's an invention of the movie? Because most people I know think he looked white and are always surprised to hear he wasn't.
@@AriaIsara I always wondered about that -- he looked darker when he was younger, and even in the movie they seem to have made Rami look "whiter" after he cut his hair.
basically he was Iranian by blood
@@AriaIsara He lived in India till he was 18. So he was definitely tanned when he just came to UK, as most Indians are. The lack of sun, makes their skin look slightly fairer over time. Plus I believe his real name gave it away, Farrokh Bulsara. He was fair, but I don't think he looked what most people call white, he looked North Indian/Middle Eastern. Hairy body, black eyes, black hair.
Honorary brother? Most certainly! He ADORED ARETHA FRANKLIN. It was her inspiration that made him write this. Guitarist Brian May jokingly said Freddie wanted to be her, if he could have been. Drummer Roger Taylor had a voice from heaven as well! Roger called this white gospel.
THIS BAND IS THE BEST OF BRITISH!
Saw them many times in the 70s and 80s one of the best live bands ever.
Who can sing live like that?
Best frontman ever!! 🔥🔥♥️♥️
The entire Montreal 81 concert is 🔥🔥🔥 I hope you also watch Live Aid 85 before moving on to other bands. It will only cement your respect for Queen and their level of talent.
I *L❤️VE* when Freddie playfully "fistfights" toward Roger and Roger enthusiastically joins in the fun, standing up with that look on his face while drumming in response. Just SO adorable to me.... ❤️ It never fails to warm my heart & make me smile/laugh.☺️
Please react to Queen from Live Aid in 1985. It is considered to be the greatest live performance of all time
They did before this video 😊
The whole 1981 Montreal concert destroys from start to finish!
All but two songs are on CZcams, (as separate clips not as a whole)
The restored HD Quality is amazing, it must have taken a lot of time and computing power.
React to *_'Save me'_* from the same show, you'll like that one. keep up the good work. xox
The Queen - Rock Montreal 1981 Live Bluray is a MUST buy. I've watched it maybe 20 times. Fukn Brilliant, and superb quality!!
@@tubelious I love love that concert!!
Freddie Mercury’s actual name is Farrokh Bulsara.- details below from wiki:
The Bulsara family gets its name from Bulsar, a city and district that is now in the Indian state of Gujarat and is today officially known as Valsad. In the 17th century, Bulsar was one of the five centres of the Zoroastrian religion (the other four were also in what is today Gujarat) and consequently "Bulsara" is a relatively common name amongst Parsi Zoroastrians.
^ On Mercury's birth certificate,[13] his parents defined themselves with "Nationality: British Indian" and "Race: Parsi". The Parsis are an ethnic group of Persian origin and have lived on the Indian Subcontinent for over a thousand years.
I love you guys! I've been finding all kinds of Queen appreciation videos lately and really enjoyed your reaction to this one. God bless!
I spent all yesterday watching these videos, thank you for these type of posts, it's like watching Queen for the first time over over.
I think you shoud react to Queen Live Aid concert guys. One of the gratest shows ever! Just 20 minutes!
YES! OMG, somebody get them to do that one!
Freddie Mercury was a showman and a great vocalist and queen live performances are incredible
I've watched a lot of reactions to a lot of songs,this is by far the best reaction yet,well deserved in this video
I absolutely loved y'alls reaction! My favorite so far!
Both Brian May (guitarist) and Roger Taylor (drummer) sang several Queen songs. Them and Freddie were probably the best Rock vocal trio that ever existed. John Deacon (bass) also did backing vocals but he was a very shy person and never wanted to stood out.
The perception of homosexuality in the 70's wasn't like today, obviously. Take Judas Priest's Rob Halford, for example: the way he acted on stage, his whole dress code... Many people saw in Rob the macho image. Turns out he was gay too.
The best rock vocal trio that ever existed? How about the best rock vocal quadruplet that ever existed? Yep, that's The Beatles. How do you think all of them succeeded post-Beatles era? (Especially Lennon and McCartney).
If you ask me, May's voice isn't that outstanding. I agree that Freddie and Taylor were great singers tho....
Greatest band of all time - PERIOD! By the way, Freddie died in November of 1991. And no, Queen were not a metal band but they had some metal songs and therefore metal moments: they pretty much invented thrash metal with the songs BRIGHTON ROCK and STONE COLD CRAZY. And their other metal songs: GIMME THE PRIZE, PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE, and I WANT IT ALL. Long live QUEEN!! 🤘🏻👑🤘🏻
You forget Sheer heart attack!!! The most furious one ;-)
Best reaction I've seen from you guys. Nice!!
This video got me into Queen, thanks guys!
innuendo please,it's one of my favorites by queen.
It's incredible.
if they dont review it, will you go slightly mad, or turn into a hitman? #albumjokes
Queen isn't metal? Maybe not, but they had a song that Metallica covered: Stone Cold Crazy.
Not metal, many songs are close to hard rock though, especially the first albums
And Power Metal wouldn't have existed without them probably. At least the way it is now.
Well, as you pointed out, I wouldn't classify Queen as metal, but I wouldn't classify some of the blues greats as metal, but if you listen to Black Sabbath's debut self-titled album, there's no doubt the influence that blues had on early metal.
FFVison The first Sabbath and Priest albums are more hardrock then metal. Very pentatonic bluesy inspired rock.
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@@dohoeijmans2432 Yep. I love me some early Priest and early Sabbath. Heh, my favorite Priest albums are the first 3. But I must admit the blues influence shows significantly more on Sabbath's first album. I love it!
Thank you for recognising the whole band :)
Love this! It's so great when you let the whole performance play and then react! This is a performance that shouldn't be interrupted. Good job, loved it!
Kudos to Sori for outing Vin as a fake metal head! LOL
Very basic timeline: Freddie was born in Tanzania in 1946 to Indian parents who had ties to Persia (Iran). He later moved to England where he joined/formed Queen in 1970. They released their first album in 1973. (Interesting fact, Michael Jackson actually helped convince them to release Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie thought it might be too strange.) Freddie never came out openly about his sexuality. There is still debate among fans about whether he was gay or bi. While he was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1987 he denied it to fans, saying he was just tired though he looked quite ill by 1988. His last public appearance was in February of 1990 but Queen went on to release 2 more albums while Freddie was sick. On November 23, 1991, in a prepared statement made on his deathbed, Mercury confirmed that he had AIDS. Within 24 hours of the statement, he died of bronchial pneumonia, which was brought on as a complication of AIDS. Most people didn't even know he had AIDS until his death on November 24, 1991.
I think you'll find another one bites the dust was the song MJ encouraged them to release...
Mreffs101 Freddie didn’t like labels, he always said, I just am what I am, he never hid the fact he was gay but at the same time he never denied it. The only person he came out to was his “wife”, Mary, he loved her too much, his love for her was always as a Friend, in his words, his best friend, his only true friend, he couldn’t carry on the lie and told her the truth that he was gay and that he had been having an affair with a music executive in December 76, the year this song was released. They separated within the month and stayed best friends till the day he died.
At the time with Freddie not liking labels, he would not have been part of the LGBT community, whether that would have been true today if he was still alive is anybody’s guess but when he was alive, he hated being pigeonholed in anything. His music is testament to that and how he dealt with the media and all the questions and speculation about his sexuality, he basically said, call me what you like, but I am just me at the end of the day. I have to admire him for that and I agree with him, labelling things only creates divisions, I don’t agree with labels either, at the end of the day, we are all the same, we are human beings, when we stop noticing and highlighting our differences, we might just realise what connects us all. We need to all do what Freddie did and stick two fingers up to labels. RIP Freddie!!
@@belindamelville8228 I'd read Michael actually helped encourage them on a few songs but I could be wrong.
@@Penddraig7 So, in short, he never came out publicly about his sexuality. Whether that was because he didn't want a label or otherwise is irrelevant, in my opinion. I never said he denied his sexuality and agree with you and him about labels but Vin asked/assumed so I included that in my post.
@@Mreffs101 i only know because i heard it in an interview with Roger Taylor a few days ago he didnt rate the song but MJ had encouraged them to release it....im SO glad he did😊
Roger Taylor's (the drummer) voice could have easily won him a lead singing spot on any rock band. Check out "I'm in Love With My Car" where Roger has the lead vocals. He's amazing.
Yea.... it was Queen and we have Freddie. Lol I think all Queen fans know Roger is a great singer. That whole band is insane with talent
Esta reacción es la mejor de todas, comentarios y gestos de Vin y Sori. Gracias por compartir este video. Hace muy poco lo ví. Sigan haciendo videos. Gracias
The studio version of the song is also outstanding, with Freddie hitting some notes that are difficult to hit over the course of a live show. The final line especially is goosebump inducing.
Some underrated Queen songs to consider reacting to:
Dreamer's Ball
Spread Your Wings
White Queen (As It Began)
FFVison White Queen live version!
@@dohoeijmans2432 I like either live or studio. Both fantastic songs from early Queen.
FFVison I like the live version better. The piano solo is so awesome!
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@@dohoeijmans2432 Good call. That's a different live version than I heard. Very awesome song.
I get emotional every time I watch this...you are my fav reaction ppl...thank you
He was an amazing singer, thanks for reacting!!
RIP Freddie, still LOVE you 😘
First off Freddy was the whole package. He was born to be a star. He could bring a audience into the feelings of the song. Strongest stage presence to ever exist. He put all of himself into every song. The rest of the band was just as good. I had the luck to see them in person. Today's kids will never see such talent. Such a loss that the band never attempted to replace him.
Freddy was born in Zanzibar, went to a public boys school in India then his family had to flee to England in the 60s, Freddy then saw brian and roger in a band called smile and went to all their gigs then the lead singer left, Freddy then joined, changed into the name to Queen the rest is rock history
For those of us who've been enjoying Queen for years, it's fantastic to see new people coming to realise just how good they were. Especially when you identify the individual talents of of each member of the group. One thing, never forget John Deacon on bass - in combination with Roger's drums, that's the engine room right there. All four of them wrote songs and each one of them wrote hits.