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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 2 00:00:03,370 --> 00:00:11,110 There's been a lot of rumours lately 'bout certain band for Queen, the rumour said that we are going to split up. What do you think? 3 00:00:11,110 --> 00:00:14,510 SHOUTS OF "No!" They're talking from here. 4 00:00:15,510 --> 00:00:21,030 So forget those rumours. We're going to stay together until we fucking well die, I'm sure of it! 5 00:00:21,950 --> 00:00:24,510 INTRO TO: "One Vision" 6 00:00:30,870 --> 00:00:32,390 Hey! 7 00:00:41,590 --> 00:00:45,830 There really wasn't much sex... Well, there wasn't much drugs. 8 00:00:48,590 --> 00:00:51,070 You wouldn't be able to do that now. 9 00:00:51,070 --> 00:00:53,150 ♪ One man 10 00:00:53,150 --> 00:00:54,990 ♪ One goal 11 00:00:56,430 --> 00:00:58,350 ♪ One mission... ♪ 12 00:00:58,350 --> 00:01:01,270 For that moment, we kind of owned the world. 13 00:01:01,270 --> 00:01:04,110 Where's the modesty gone? There isn't any. 14 00:01:04,110 --> 00:01:06,590 ♪ One solution... ♪ 15 00:01:06,590 --> 00:01:09,230 Press are never quite understood, A lot of the press took against them. 16 00:01:09,230 --> 00:01:11,790 ♪ Yeah, one God... ♪ 17 00:01:11,790 --> 00:01:14,190 England doesn't really think we're that cool. 18 00:01:14,190 --> 00:01:17,870 But I mean I don't want some arsehole critic to tell me that. 19 00:01:17,870 --> 00:01:21,710 You might as well paint a target on your head and go, "Shoot me!" 20 00:01:21,710 --> 00:01:26,190 I think when you go all the way up, the only place is to come down. 21 00:01:28,630 --> 00:01:32,350 Controversy Behind Sun City I wish I'd never heard of the place! 22 00:01:32,350 --> 00:01:35,790 ♪ I'm gonna tell you there's no black and no white... ♪ 23 00:01:35,790 --> 00:01:40,830 Whenever the band came under pressure, there would be a walk-out, a separation, a row. 24 00:01:40,830 --> 00:01:42,750 ♪ One worldwide vision... ♪ 25 00:01:42,750 --> 00:01:46,590 We were at a crucial point. We might have had to break up. 26 00:01:46,590 --> 00:01:51,550 The arguments were creative, then it would become personal. Of course. 27 00:01:51,550 --> 00:01:53,910 There is an inward jealousy. 28 00:01:53,910 --> 00:02:00,470 They're all wondering & all waiting to see if my album is going to do better than the last Queen album. 29 00:02:00,470 --> 00:02:06,990 Freddie took to the gay scene like David Attenborough making a wildlife programme. 30 00:02:06,990 --> 00:02:11,990 I just want to pack in as much of life and having a good time as much as I can. 31 00:02:19,750 --> 00:02:23,310 'London - the Imperial College of Science and Technology, 32 00:02:23,310 --> 00:02:26,830 'meeting place for space scientists from 50 nations, 33 00:02:26,830 --> 00:02:32,870 'specialists who will help develop the equipment which has taken mankind to the new age of space exploration.' 34 00:02:34,870 --> 00:02:37,910 We've got Brian May on guitar. APPLAUSE 35 00:02:37,910 --> 00:02:43,230 I was studying Physics as an undergraduate here, but Astronomy was always my thing. 36 00:02:45,550 --> 00:02:50,030 And so I did the Astronomy post-graduate for a PhD. 37 00:02:50,030 --> 00:02:54,150 When we were at school, me and my mates had a group called 1984. 38 00:02:54,150 --> 00:02:58,110 When I left for university, the singer we had, Tim Staffell, 39 00:02:58,110 --> 00:03:02,790 and myself decided to put a new group together called Smile. 40 00:03:02,790 --> 00:03:05,790 We've got Roger Meddows-Taylor on percussion. 41 00:03:05,790 --> 00:03:09,630 There was a noticeboard here where you would pin items 42 00:03:09,630 --> 00:03:14,150 of interest to musicians, so I put a notice saying "drummer wanted". 43 00:03:14,150 --> 00:03:18,590 "We need Ginger Baker/Mitch Mitchell type drummer." 44 00:03:18,590 --> 00:03:24,070 I booked this little jazz club room here and Roger brought his kit and I brought a guitar. 45 00:03:24,070 --> 00:03:27,590 That was the first time we played together. 46 00:03:27,590 --> 00:03:30,150 ♪ When she was done 47 00:03:30,150 --> 00:03:32,390 ♪ She hung them up... ♪ 48 00:03:32,390 --> 00:03:38,310 Something happened, I have to say. We thought, "There is some kind of special sound to this." 49 00:03:38,310 --> 00:03:42,350 ♪ Goodbye, April Lady... ♪ 50 00:03:44,270 --> 00:03:48,390 I guess we had the same sort of sound in our heads. 51 00:03:49,670 --> 00:03:54,470 ♪ Goodbye, April Lady 52 00:03:54,470 --> 00:03:59,030 ♪ You've done a lot for the folks in this town... ♪ 53 00:04:01,110 --> 00:04:04,390 Freddie Mercury on vocals. APPLAUSE 54 00:04:04,390 --> 00:04:07,710 Freddie came from a colonial background. 55 00:04:07,710 --> 00:04:12,870 He was born in Zanzibar and he went to boarding school in India. 56 00:04:12,870 --> 00:04:17,790 I first met Freddie at Ealing Art School in 1968. 57 00:04:17,790 --> 00:04:19,830 There was a piano down there 58 00:04:19,830 --> 00:04:23,350 and Freddie would do this flowery style on the piano. 59 00:04:23,350 --> 00:04:29,670 It was very Mozart and effective, but unique. You'd never seen anybody play the piano like that before. 60 00:04:30,670 --> 00:04:35,830 The first time he sang, I knew straight away that that voice was going places. 61 00:04:35,830 --> 00:04:38,430 ♪ The minute you walked in the joint 62 00:04:38,430 --> 00:04:41,790 ♪ I could see you were a man of distinction 63 00:04:41,790 --> 00:04:44,390 ♪ A real big spender 64 00:04:44,390 --> 00:04:47,030 ♪ Good-looking, so refined 65 00:04:47,030 --> 00:04:50,870 ♪ Say, wouldn't you like to know what's going on in my mind...? ♪ 66 00:04:50,870 --> 00:04:55,670 I used to follow Smile a lot. We were friends. I used to go to their shows. 67 00:04:55,670 --> 00:05:00,750 Freddie was waiting in the wings, literally, and advising us on what to do. 68 00:05:00,750 --> 00:05:05,190 He would say, "You're brilliant, but you should do this and this..." 69 00:05:05,190 --> 00:05:10,030 What did you see in what Brian and Roger were doing with Smile? Nothing! 70 00:05:10,030 --> 00:05:15,750 I think he had in the back of his mind some idea about maybe working with us. 71 00:05:15,750 --> 00:05:21,590 Freddie told everybody that he was going to be a pop star and we didn't take it that seriously. 72 00:05:21,590 --> 00:05:28,030 He was sitting over there one night. I walked in and he put his head in his hands, looking really depressed. 73 00:05:28,030 --> 00:05:32,910 I said, "What's the matter with you?" He said, "I'm not going to be a pop star." 74 00:05:32,910 --> 00:05:36,390 And very slowly he stood up and he said, 75 00:05:36,390 --> 00:05:40,350 "I'm going to be...a legend." 76 00:05:41,950 --> 00:05:44,710 ♪ Hey, big spender 77 00:05:46,150 --> 00:05:51,070 ♪ Spend a little time with me... ♪ 78 00:05:52,390 --> 00:05:57,030 Although we had a lot of successful gigs and we played colleges, pubs 79 00:05:57,030 --> 00:06:01,070 and clubs up and down the country, we just never got anywhere. 80 00:06:01,070 --> 00:06:04,110 Smile made a single which did nothing at all, 81 00:06:04,110 --> 00:06:08,750 then Tim, our singer, got an offer from someone else called Humpy Bong. 82 00:06:08,750 --> 00:06:11,550 So Tim sodded off to that. 83 00:06:11,550 --> 00:06:15,990 Freddie got us. He said, "Come on, you can't give up. I want to sing." 84 00:06:15,990 --> 00:06:18,830 So we decided that we'd take the plunge. 85 00:06:18,830 --> 00:06:22,790 And it was then that I sort of thought about the name Queen. 86 00:06:22,790 --> 00:06:27,670 Why Queen? I don't know. At the time, it was outrageous. 87 00:06:29,470 --> 00:06:32,030 So here we have the main hall. 88 00:06:32,030 --> 00:06:35,110 In 1973, this is where Queen played. 89 00:06:35,110 --> 00:06:39,150 This is really the first proper, advertised gig we ever did 90 00:06:39,150 --> 00:06:44,790 and it's certainly the first review we ever got by Rosemary Horide of what was then Disc. 91 00:06:46,790 --> 00:06:53,110 From the very beginning, Freddie was absolutely remarkable for stagecraft. He had a presence 92 00:06:53,110 --> 00:06:57,710 unlike anything I'd seen. I'd been a music journalist for a long time. 93 00:06:57,710 --> 00:07:03,830 Freddie, even from those days, had an ability to work an audience and they would eat out of his hand. 94 00:07:04,910 --> 00:07:10,590 He could turn his hand round like that and do that and the audience would stand up. 95 00:07:10,590 --> 00:07:13,390 ♪ I have sinned, dear Father 96 00:07:13,390 --> 00:07:16,350 ♪ Father, I have sinned 97 00:07:16,350 --> 00:07:19,630 ♪ Try and help me, Father 98 00:07:19,630 --> 00:07:23,070 ♪ Won't you let me in? 99 00:07:23,070 --> 00:07:24,590 ♪ Liar! 100 00:07:24,590 --> 00:07:26,750 ♪ Oh, nobody... ♪ 101 00:07:26,750 --> 00:07:33,190 It was the first moment when I thought, "Something's happening here and people know what we're about." 102 00:07:43,430 --> 00:07:47,750 When they came along, there had been a denim rock movement, 103 00:07:47,750 --> 00:07:51,430 if you like, with Status Quo, Uriah Heep. 104 00:07:51,430 --> 00:07:57,550 I think Queen were an incredible breath of fresh air in rock music. 105 00:07:57,550 --> 00:07:59,630 They had brilliant songs. 106 00:07:59,630 --> 00:08:04,430 Freddie Mercury was an absolutely charismatic front man. 107 00:08:04,430 --> 00:08:06,310 ♪ Liar... ♪ 108 00:08:06,310 --> 00:08:12,070 Brian May was just this brilliant guitarist and Roger Taylor was a phenomenal drummer. 109 00:08:12,070 --> 00:08:15,510 And you had that guy that played bass. 110 00:08:15,510 --> 00:08:21,310 We spent a couple of years looking for a bass player. It was very hard to find the right guy. 111 00:08:21,310 --> 00:08:23,310 Then we found John. 112 00:08:23,310 --> 00:08:25,430 Deacon John on bass. APPLAUSE 113 00:08:25,430 --> 00:08:28,470 I came along as a bit of an outsider at first. 114 00:08:28,470 --> 00:08:33,110 It did take me quite a few years to grow more into the group 115 00:08:33,110 --> 00:08:35,830 and find myself at home, really. 116 00:08:38,710 --> 00:08:43,750 Before we signed to a record label, we actually signed to Trident Productions, 117 00:08:43,750 --> 00:08:49,430 a management company run by the Sheffield brothers who had a studio in the middle of Soho. 118 00:08:53,190 --> 00:08:58,030 Recording our first album, we were all students finishing off our degrees. 119 00:08:58,030 --> 00:09:02,030 We had to do it in what time was available 120 00:09:02,030 --> 00:09:05,550 because the studio was being booked up all the time. 121 00:09:05,550 --> 00:09:08,590 We had to go in sometimes at two in the morning 122 00:09:08,590 --> 00:09:13,950 and sometimes finishing at six in the morning, all those weird times that nobody wanted. 123 00:09:15,350 --> 00:09:20,750 You know, you could see the working girls at night through their lace curtains, 124 00:09:20,750 --> 00:09:24,910 so while we were mixing, we'd have a little bit of diversion. 125 00:09:24,910 --> 00:09:30,870 The album came out and sort of resoundingly crashed. It really didn't do much. 126 00:09:30,870 --> 00:09:36,910 When you make your first album, you go into the record shops and think, "We're in the record stores now!" 127 00:09:36,910 --> 00:09:43,750 You go in and say, "Have you got the new Queen album then?" They go, "What?" It's a long haul. 128 00:09:52,430 --> 00:09:56,470 With Queen II, I couldn't believe how much work we put into that. 129 00:09:56,470 --> 00:09:59,590 I think We felt we were evolving our own sound. 130 00:10:00,630 --> 00:10:04,670 We were pioneering this sort of multi-tracking thing. 131 00:10:04,670 --> 00:10:07,350 It gave you a tremendous palette. 132 00:10:07,350 --> 00:10:13,110 You could get massive choral effects with just three of us singing. 133 00:10:13,110 --> 00:10:15,910 ♪ Voice from behind... ♪ 134 00:10:15,910 --> 00:10:20,110 We really got into production and went completely over the top. 135 00:10:20,110 --> 00:10:23,270 There's a track called March Of The Black Queen. 136 00:10:23,270 --> 00:10:27,510 ♪ I'll be a bad boy, I'll be your bad boy 137 00:10:27,510 --> 00:10:30,750 ♪ I'll do the march of the Black Queen... ♪ 138 00:10:30,750 --> 00:10:36,990 It's very long. It's in about 11 different sections and the complexity of it is staggering. 139 00:10:39,030 --> 00:10:42,070 I mean, the tape was literally transparent. 140 00:10:42,070 --> 00:10:47,110 The 16-track, two-inch tape, the oxide was almost completely worn away. 141 00:10:47,110 --> 00:10:51,630 We'd gone over it so many times. It literally was transparent. 142 00:10:53,150 --> 00:10:56,030 ♪ Walking true to style 143 00:10:57,110 --> 00:11:03,430 ♪ She's vulgar abuse and vile Fi-fo the Black Queen tattoos all her pies... ♪ 144 00:11:03,430 --> 00:11:07,070 It was really only with Queen II and Seven Seas Of Rhye 145 00:11:07,070 --> 00:11:09,110 that we had the breakthrough. 146 00:11:09,110 --> 00:11:15,350 We realised that the easiest way of getting a hit album is to have a hit single 147 00:11:15,350 --> 00:11:18,350 that has some musical validity. 148 00:11:18,350 --> 00:11:23,550 The key to that was the stroke that was pulled in getting them on Top Of The Pops 149 00:11:23,550 --> 00:11:27,830 when Bowie dropped out and it absolutely broke that single. 150 00:11:33,110 --> 00:11:37,150 It was a very underwhelming experience the very first time 151 00:11:36,250 --> 00:11:39,010 because there was a strike on at the BBC. 152 00:11:39,010 --> 00:11:42,530 ♪ Fear me, you lords and lady preachers... ♪ 153 00:11:42,530 --> 00:11:45,970 So it was shot in the weather studio. 154 00:11:45,970 --> 00:11:49,090 ♪ I command your very souls, you unbelievers 155 00:11:49,090 --> 00:11:53,050 ♪ Bring before me what is mine The seven seas of Rhye... ♪ 156 00:11:53,050 --> 00:11:58,010 It was great fun to be at Top Of The Pops because it was all happening. 157 00:11:58,010 --> 00:12:03,650 You felt like you were in a sense becoming part of public consciousness. 158 00:12:03,650 --> 00:12:07,930 ♪ I will destroy any man who dares abuse my trust... ♪ 159 00:12:07,930 --> 00:12:11,370 Top Of The Pops was incredibly uncool. 160 00:12:11,370 --> 00:12:14,930 It was rubbish because nobody was actually playing. 161 00:12:14,930 --> 00:12:19,770 There was about 75 teenagers who were herded about the studio 162 00:12:19,770 --> 00:12:23,690 and a bunch of ageing disc jockeys presenting you. 163 00:12:23,690 --> 00:12:29,130 Pan's People were there, these very glamorous girls dancing. It was a lot of fun. 164 00:12:29,130 --> 00:12:35,210 The BBC had a set of plastic cymbals that went "duh" when you hit them, so they didn't make any noise. 165 00:12:35,210 --> 00:12:38,330 I think that sort of says it all, really. 166 00:12:38,330 --> 00:12:43,370 We had slightly mixed feelings about Top Of The Pops because it wasn't very cool, 167 00:12:43,370 --> 00:12:48,210 but it was the great vehicle for selling records, so what can you say? 168 00:12:48,210 --> 00:12:52,250 It had a big impact. Our record went straight into the top ten. 169 00:12:52,250 --> 00:12:54,610 So obviously, the impact was huge. 170 00:12:54,610 --> 00:12:58,490 ♪ Storm the master marathon I'll fly through 171 00:12:58,490 --> 00:13:03,050 ♪ By flash and thunder fire and I'll survive I'll survive, I'll survive 172 00:13:03,050 --> 00:13:09,490 ♪ Then I'll defy the laws of nature and come out ali-i-ive Then I'll get you... ♪ 173 00:13:09,490 --> 00:13:15,250 We had this song called Seven Seas Of Rhye, but it's a universal truth that more groups break up 174 00:13:15,250 --> 00:13:20,970 because of songwriting arguments than anything else in the world. Your songs are your babies. 175 00:13:20,970 --> 00:13:27,090 The person who has written the song tends to be the one person who sees that one song all the way through 176 00:13:27,090 --> 00:13:32,810 from the idea they have in their head at first, the final production, the sounds and the mix... 177 00:13:32,810 --> 00:13:36,450 Most of the time, I have a clear picture of what I want. 178 00:13:36,450 --> 00:13:39,970 I sort of have a lot of... say, Roger's parts 179 00:13:39,970 --> 00:13:44,530 and what Brian should do and things... There are rows, of course. 180 00:13:44,530 --> 00:13:50,050 I've probably never spoken about this before, but The Seven Seas Of Rhye was Freddie's idea. 181 00:13:50,050 --> 00:13:55,610 He had this lovely little riff idea on the piano and all the middle eight is stuff that I did, 182 00:13:55,610 --> 00:14:01,650 so we worked on it together, but when it came to the album coming out, Freddie went, "I wrote that." 183 00:14:01,650 --> 00:14:05,690 And we all went, "OK." It didn't seem like that big a deal. 184 00:14:05,690 --> 00:14:10,410 Freddie said, "I wrote the words and it was my idea, so it's my song." 185 00:14:10,410 --> 00:14:17,010 The sort of unwritten law was the person who brought the song in would get the credit for writing that song 186 00:14:17,010 --> 00:14:19,450 and the money for writing that song. 187 00:14:19,450 --> 00:14:24,450 Much, much later in Queen history, we recognised this fact. 188 00:14:30,650 --> 00:14:34,330 ♪ Here I stand Here I stand 189 00:14:34,330 --> 00:14:36,730 ♪ Look around, around 190 00:14:36,730 --> 00:14:39,370 ♪ Around, around, around... ♪ 191 00:14:39,370 --> 00:14:45,170 We were very lucky in that we hooked up with Mott The Hoople and we were their warm-up act. 192 00:14:45,170 --> 00:14:47,610 ♪ Now I'm here Now I'm here... ♪ 193 00:14:47,610 --> 00:14:52,170 We went all around the UK with them and it worked out just perfectly. 194 00:14:52,170 --> 00:14:55,730 ♪ Now I'm there Now I'm there... ♪ 195 00:14:55,730 --> 00:15:01,450 Then the guys from Mott said, "Would you like to do the same thing in America?" 196 00:15:06,530 --> 00:15:09,970 ♪ Just a new man 197 00:15:11,730 --> 00:15:14,250 ♪ Yes, you made me live again... ♪ 198 00:15:22,490 --> 00:15:26,130 After a few gigs, I started to feel weird. 199 00:15:26,130 --> 00:15:31,970 Something was happening. I didn't know if it was my head or my body, but I started to feel odd. 200 00:15:31,970 --> 00:15:37,370 Then I woke up one morning in Boston which was going to be the climax of the tour... 201 00:15:37,370 --> 00:15:43,890 I woke up and I was yellow. The doctor came and said, "You've got hepatitis. You have to go home." 202 00:15:43,890 --> 00:15:49,810 I still was amazed we managed to shepherd him through the immigration queue at JFK in New York. 203 00:15:49,810 --> 00:15:52,250 The poor fellow could hardly stand. 204 00:15:52,250 --> 00:15:55,450 I was taken on the plane shoulder to shoulder. 205 00:15:55,450 --> 00:16:00,810 We were devastated the tour had been cut short. It was our first trip to America. 206 00:16:00,810 --> 00:16:04,010 But we just ploughed on in the studio without him. 207 00:16:04,010 --> 00:16:07,290 It was a bit of a long haul back to health. 208 00:16:07,290 --> 00:16:12,850 I was getting over all this stuff and I saw Freddie battering out all these things, thinking, 209 00:16:12,850 --> 00:16:17,210 "I've not got my shit together," and really starting to worry about it. 210 00:16:17,210 --> 00:16:20,410 ♪ She keeps her Moet et Chandon 211 00:16:20,410 --> 00:16:22,650 ♪ In her pretty cabinet 212 00:16:22,650 --> 00:16:26,770 ♪ "Let them eat cake" she says just like Marie Antoinette... ♪ 213 00:16:26,770 --> 00:16:32,530 Queen I and Queen II were full-on rock albums and I suppose it was only a question of time 214 00:16:32,530 --> 00:16:37,730 before they put some clever melody into it and Sheer Heart Attack was that break-out album. 215 00:16:37,730 --> 00:16:42,450 And Killer Queen where Mercury's vocals have probably never been better. 216 00:16:42,450 --> 00:16:46,770 ♪ She's a killer queen Gunpowder, gelatine 217 00:16:46,770 --> 00:16:49,090 ♪ Dynamite with a laser beam 218 00:16:49,090 --> 00:16:52,570 ♪ Guaranteed to blow your mind Any time... ♪ 219 00:16:52,570 --> 00:16:56,130 I do remember having a slight reservation about Killer Queen. 220 00:16:56,130 --> 00:17:01,170 I thought, "Are we selling ourselves as something which has become very light?" 221 00:17:02,170 --> 00:17:04,970 But every slice through that record 222 00:17:04,970 --> 00:17:11,050 is a perfect vision. There's lots of little things which visit once only like that bell of the cymbal. 223 00:17:11,050 --> 00:17:16,090 RINGING SOUND # In conversation she spoke just like a baroness 224 00:17:16,090 --> 00:17:20,210 ♪ Met a man from China Went down to Geisha Minah 225 00:17:20,210 --> 00:17:24,410 ♪ Then again incidentally if you're that way inclined... ♪ 226 00:17:24,410 --> 00:17:30,650 Killer Queen always felt a bit special. It was very sophisticated and it was very Freddie. 227 00:17:30,650 --> 00:17:36,810 As the albums have progressed, our songwriting has progressed and we ventured into different areas. 228 00:17:36,810 --> 00:17:40,850 ♪ Dynamite with a laser beam Guaranteed to blow your mind... ♪ 229 00:17:40,850 --> 00:17:45,810 I like writing different songs. We don't like to repeat the same formula. 230 00:17:45,810 --> 00:17:50,810 It had a slightly Noel Coward... You know, that kind of element in it. 231 00:17:50,810 --> 00:17:56,810 When you took the lyrics apart, you thought, "How incredible is that!" Because they were so clever. 232 00:17:56,810 --> 00:18:01,490 ♪ Drop of a hat, she's as willing as Playful as a pussycat 233 00:18:01,490 --> 00:18:05,770 ♪ Then momentarily out of action Temporarily out of gas 234 00:18:05,770 --> 00:18:09,770 ♪ To absolutely drive you wild 235 00:18:09,770 --> 00:18:12,690 ♪ She's all out to get you 236 00:18:12,690 --> 00:18:15,130 ♪ She's a killer queen 237 00:18:15,130 --> 00:18:19,250 ♪ Gunpowder, gelatine Dynamite with a laser beam 238 00:18:19,250 --> 00:18:23,130 ♪ Guaranteed to blow your mind Any time 239 00:18:23,130 --> 00:18:27,970 ♪ Oh, recommended at the price Insatiable an appetite 240 00:18:27,970 --> 00:18:30,770 ♪ Wanna try? 241 00:18:31,770 --> 00:18:34,410 ♪ You wanna try... ♪ 242 00:18:37,890 --> 00:18:42,170 We were doing a lot of major tours in Japan, America. 243 00:18:42,170 --> 00:18:48,970 We were headlining by now and doing very well and selling loads of records and not seeing any money. 244 00:18:53,090 --> 00:18:58,330 We decided to go with the production company, rather than with the record company. 245 00:18:58,330 --> 00:19:03,970 The deal was that we made the album for the production company and they sell it to a record company. 246 00:19:03,970 --> 00:19:06,570 It's probably the worst thing we did. 247 00:19:06,570 --> 00:19:13,090 The deal that they were on just meant that they weren't going to make any money out of what they did. 248 00:19:13,090 --> 00:19:16,130 And the way it came to a head 249 00:19:16,130 --> 00:19:18,810 was with the song Death On Two Legs. 250 00:19:18,810 --> 00:19:21,730 ♪ You suck my blood like a leech 251 00:19:21,730 --> 00:19:23,970 ♪ You break the law and you breach 252 00:19:23,970 --> 00:19:26,010 ♪ Screw my brain till it hurts 253 00:19:26,010 --> 00:19:30,050 ♪ You've taken all my money 254 00:19:30,050 --> 00:19:32,770 ♪ And you want more... ♪ 255 00:19:35,300 --> 00:19:39,820 Often I would go to do an interview and I buy a couple of bottles of wine 256 00:19:39,820 --> 00:19:43,220 on my expenses because they had no money. 257 00:19:43,220 --> 00:19:46,460 We didn't expect instant riches. We didn't get them! 258 00:19:46,460 --> 00:19:50,380 Roger was breaking sticks because he hit the drums pretty hard. 259 00:19:50,380 --> 00:19:54,500 The management's going, "Don't break any more sticks." We had no money. 260 00:19:56,500 --> 00:20:02,940 One of the management group bought a Rolls-Royce and we thought, "Hang on, something's going on here." 261 00:20:05,020 --> 00:20:10,060 It affected Freddie deeply and Freddie got to the point where he said, 262 00:20:10,060 --> 00:20:13,140 "I am not delivering any more music. I can't." 263 00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:19,020 To cut a long story short, we went with John Reid 264 00:20:19,020 --> 00:20:23,020 who was Elton's incredibly successful manager at the time. 265 00:20:24,020 --> 00:20:26,540 I remember saying, "You go away 266 00:20:26,540 --> 00:20:30,420 "and make the best record you can. I'll take care of the business." 267 00:20:30,420 --> 00:20:33,460 We had a good working relationship with John. 268 00:20:33,460 --> 00:20:37,940 He was very fiery and feisty, but so were we. We weren't scared of him. 269 00:20:37,940 --> 00:20:41,780 It was the first night I'd gone out to dinner with Freddie. 270 00:20:41,780 --> 00:20:48,140 I said, "I'd just like to say, as I said to the other guys, I hope you know I'm gay and it's not a problem." 271 00:20:48,140 --> 00:20:51,660 And he put his knife and fork down and said, "So am I!" 272 00:20:52,940 --> 00:20:56,500 Freddie, when I first met him, wasn't out to the band 273 00:20:56,500 --> 00:21:00,340 because he was struggling with his own sexuality anyway. 274 00:21:00,340 --> 00:21:05,820 And Freddie was from a very, very traditional Zoroastrian background 275 00:21:05,820 --> 00:21:11,260 and I think his family considerations were probably paramount. 276 00:21:13,260 --> 00:21:19,100 I remember when we went into the studio to make A Night At The Opera, it felt like make or break. 277 00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:22,740 We were not only poor, but we were in debt. 278 00:21:22,740 --> 00:21:27,780 All the sound and lighting companies and the people we worked with hadn't been paid, 279 00:21:27,780 --> 00:21:33,540 so we were at a really crucial point. We might have had to break up if that album hadn't done well. 280 00:21:35,340 --> 00:21:39,180 It was an expensive album, enormous complexity on there. 281 00:21:39,180 --> 00:21:42,620 Even now, I wonder how we did some of that stuff. 282 00:21:42,620 --> 00:21:46,660 There was so much hunger there. We had so much we wanted to bring out. 283 00:21:46,660 --> 00:21:50,180 It was all kept in and so we had all kinds of songs. 284 00:21:50,180 --> 00:21:57,020 Bohemian Rhapsody was basically like three songs that I wanted to put out and I just put the three together. 285 00:21:57,020 --> 00:22:02,420 I think the groundwork for a song like that was done at Ealing College. 286 00:22:02,420 --> 00:22:06,140 Freddie had lots of bits of songs which we'd link together 287 00:22:06,140 --> 00:22:11,980 and one of his bits, I just referred to it as The Cowboy Song and it went, "Mama, I just killed a man." 288 00:22:11,980 --> 00:22:14,540 ♪ Mama 289 00:22:14,540 --> 00:22:17,180 ♪ Just killed a man... ♪ 290 00:22:17,180 --> 00:22:21,220 The first thing I heard was Freddie playing "Mama, just killed a man..." 291 00:22:21,220 --> 00:22:26,780 "What do you think?" "I love it. It's absolutely brilliant." Not knowing what was to come. 292 00:22:26,780 --> 00:22:29,980 We ended up having to do it in six studios. 293 00:22:29,980 --> 00:22:35,460 Because they were using all these studios, you didn't know what was going on. 294 00:22:37,460 --> 00:22:42,660 You would have guitar parts in one studio and vocal stuff in another. 295 00:22:42,660 --> 00:22:44,100 ♪ Galileo 296 00:22:44,100 --> 00:22:45,940 ♪ Galileo 297 00:22:45,940 --> 00:22:48,620 ♪ Galileo, Figaro... ♪ 298 00:22:48,620 --> 00:22:53,060 Freddie would just turn up and go, "I've got a few more Galileos." 299 00:22:53,060 --> 00:22:56,820 We were going round all these studios just hearing parts. 300 00:22:56,820 --> 00:23:00,020 ♪ Thunderbolt and lightning Very, very frightening me 301 00:23:00,020 --> 00:23:04,900 HIGHER PITCH: ♪ Lightning, very, very frightening, very, very frightening me... ♪ 302 00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:09,700 Only Fred had it in his head and he was making some of it up as we went along. 303 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:11,900 I thought, "I'll do as I please." 304 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:15,500 ♪ Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me... ♪ 305 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:21,140 Do as many multi-layer harmonies as possible. You know, go well over the top. 306 00:23:21,140 --> 00:23:26,140 It really was tongue-in-cheek, but at the same time, "I bet you can't do this." 307 00:23:26,140 --> 00:23:29,220 ♪ He's just a poor boy from a poor family 308 00:23:29,220 --> 00:23:32,460 ♪ Spare him his life from this monstrosity... ♪ 309 00:23:32,460 --> 00:23:38,500 But the record company as a mass came to us and said, "This is too long. Nobody's going to play it." 310 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:42,060 I played it to Elton John at the time 311 00:23:42,060 --> 00:23:46,620 and he said, "Are you off your head? You'll never get that on the radio." 312 00:23:46,620 --> 00:23:49,580 I said, "It goes out in its entirety or not at all." 313 00:23:49,580 --> 00:23:53,620 At the crucial moment, this young man called Kenny Everett came in, 314 00:23:53,620 --> 00:23:58,020 loved the track, stole a copy of it and played it on his radio show. 315 00:23:58,020 --> 00:24:03,420 Kenny played it 14 times over the weekend and of course it was a smash. 316 00:24:03,420 --> 00:24:08,340 Then following that up with what, to my mind, was the first ever real music video. 317 00:24:08,340 --> 00:24:11,580 ♪ We will not let you go Let him go! Bismillah! 318 00:24:11,580 --> 00:24:14,700 ♪ We will not let you go Let him go! Bismillah... ♪ 319 00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:18,980 I'd never seen anything like it and I don't think anybody else had. 320 00:24:18,980 --> 00:24:21,100 The video took Queen to another level 321 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:24,700 where they could really command the landscape. 322 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:27,740 ♪ Mamma mia, mamma mia Mamma mia, let me go... ♪ 323 00:24:27,740 --> 00:24:32,900 Night At The Opera was that landmark album that established them as a major force. 324 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:37,940 That was the context in which you could do something like the Hyde Park concert. 325 00:24:45,380 --> 00:24:50,380 ♪ So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye 326 00:24:50,380 --> 00:24:55,540 ♪ So you think you can love me and leave me to die... ♪ 327 00:25:08,140 --> 00:25:12,540 It was Richard Branson. "We think we can put you on in Hyde Park." 328 00:25:13,940 --> 00:25:17,460 Thank you very much. Good evening, everybody. 329 00:25:17,460 --> 00:25:19,780 CHEERING 330 00:25:19,780 --> 00:25:23,220 Welcome to our picnic by the Serpentine. 331 00:25:24,220 --> 00:25:28,260 I remember thinking, "Gulp!" We've carved out a place around the world, 332 00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:31,700 but England doesn't really think we're that cool. 333 00:25:32,660 --> 00:25:38,780 It was packed beyond belief and it was really like coming home to a heroes' welcome. 334 00:25:38,780 --> 00:25:40,820 THRASHING GUITARS 335 00:25:49,260 --> 00:25:53,780 ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ahhh... ♪ 336 00:25:55,860 --> 00:26:01,900 It was a thrilling experience to have that kind of contact with an audience in your own home town. 337 00:26:03,660 --> 00:26:09,020 When it came to make Day At The Races, we just thought, "Let's just do what we do." 338 00:26:09,020 --> 00:26:14,060 The added ingredient in Day At The Races is this feeling of freedom which we had 339 00:26:14,060 --> 00:26:20,100 because we had escaped the old situation, we'd sorted out the money side, we weren't in debt any more, 340 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:25,100 we weren't struggling for our very existence, so there's a great freedom and joy. 341 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:27,740 ♪ Ca-a-an 342 00:26:27,740 --> 00:26:31,620 ♪ Anybody... ♪ 343 00:26:31,620 --> 00:26:37,660 It was almost like we were still making A Night At The Opera. We just loved it. We revelled in it. 344 00:26:37,660 --> 00:26:42,020 ♪ Somebody to lo-o-ove... ♪ 345 00:26:43,020 --> 00:26:49,340 Freddie came up with a magnificent, little sort of foray into white Gospel, if you want to call it that. 346 00:26:49,340 --> 00:26:51,060 ♪ Ooh 347 00:26:51,060 --> 00:26:53,100 ♪ Each morning I get up... ♪ 348 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:56,540 We really worked our harmonies on Somebody To Love. 349 00:26:56,540 --> 00:27:01,060 ♪ Take a look at yourself Take a look in the mirror and cry... ♪ 350 00:27:01,060 --> 00:27:05,940 Freddie's great inspiration for Somebody To Love was Aretha Franklin. 351 00:27:05,940 --> 00:27:07,980 He absolutely loved Aretha. 352 00:27:07,980 --> 00:27:10,860 He would like to have been Aretha Franklin! 353 00:27:10,860 --> 00:27:14,100 ♪ Somebody! Somebody! Ooh, somebody! Somebody! 354 00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:19,140 ♪ Can anybody find me somebody to love...? ♪ 355 00:27:19,140 --> 00:27:23,140 From that point of view, OK, Bohemian Rhapsody, a big hit, 356 00:27:23,140 --> 00:27:27,460 but a song like Somebody To Love is in my estimation a better sort of... 357 00:27:27,460 --> 00:27:30,300 from the writing aspect, a better song. 358 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:33,020 ♪ I work till I ache in my bones 359 00:27:33,020 --> 00:27:36,060 ♪ At the end At the end of the day 360 00:27:36,060 --> 00:27:39,940 ♪ I take home my hard-earned pay all on my own 361 00:27:39,940 --> 00:27:43,660 ♪ I get down on my knees and I start to pray 362 00:27:43,660 --> 00:27:46,780 ♪ Till the tears run down from my eyes 363 00:27:46,780 --> 00:27:50,300 ♪ Lord, somebody! Somebody! Ooh, somebody 364 00:27:50,300 --> 00:27:53,420 ♪ Can anybody find me... ♪ 365 00:27:53,420 --> 00:27:59,180 We were using the studio to its maximum capacity, painting a picture like on a huge canvas. 366 00:27:59,180 --> 00:28:02,300 ♪ Find me somebody to love 367 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:05,420 ♪ Find me somebody to love... ♪ 368 00:28:05,420 --> 00:28:10,100 We had a gift. We had three voices which really blended instantly. 369 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:12,140 ♪ Find me somebody to love... ♪ 370 00:28:12,140 --> 00:28:16,180 Freddie has this wonderful, crystal-clear, sharp vocal sound. 371 00:28:16,180 --> 00:28:20,740 ♪ Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love... ♪ 372 00:28:20,740 --> 00:28:24,060 Naturally, I've got the powerful high voice. 373 00:28:24,060 --> 00:28:27,380 He's got the dog whistle pitch, a very high voice. 374 00:28:27,380 --> 00:28:29,620 ♪ Find me somebody to love... ♪ 375 00:28:29,620 --> 00:28:32,020 And I had quite a warm sound. 376 00:28:32,020 --> 00:28:35,020 ♪ Somebody! Somebody! Somebody! Somebody! 377 00:28:35,020 --> 00:28:39,740 ♪ Somebody! Find me... Somebody find me somebody to love 378 00:28:39,740 --> 00:28:42,780 ♪ Can anybody find me... ♪ 379 00:28:42,780 --> 00:28:47,700 Put the three together and you have something which sounds sort of Panavision. 380 00:28:49,820 --> 00:28:51,460 ♪ Find me 381 00:28:51,460 --> 00:28:53,100 ♪ Somebody 382 00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:55,700 ♪ To-o-o love 383 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:57,700 ♪ Find me... ♪ 384 00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:01,260 To keep their attention, you've got to really tempt them. 385 00:29:01,260 --> 00:29:04,900 Like, "You can have a break. Have a coffee and biscuits." 386 00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:09,940 While they're in a good mood, grab them and do another 50 million overdubs! 387 00:29:09,940 --> 00:29:14,700 ♪ Anybody find me somebody to love Somebody to love... ♪ 388 00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:17,860 We used to call it the sausage factory in the end 389 00:29:17,860 --> 00:29:21,700 because we got so good at it, we could just bang 'em out. 390 00:29:24,180 --> 00:29:26,540 A Day At The Races, 391 00:29:26,540 --> 00:29:31,740 as the follow-up to Night At The Opera, was clearly... It had a hard act to follow. 392 00:29:31,740 --> 00:29:37,580 People who wanted to have a go at Queen could quite readily say, "It's not as good as the last one." 393 00:29:37,580 --> 00:29:40,180 A lot of the press took against them. 394 00:29:40,180 --> 00:29:43,220 Maybe if you got too successful too quick, 395 00:29:43,220 --> 00:29:49,700 there was a resentment there that they hadn't made you, therefore they wanted to break you. 396 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:53,460 ♪ Oh, take my breath away... ♪ 397 00:29:53,460 --> 00:29:57,500 Shortly after I started to manage them, 398 00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:04,180 I had told all the band one of the ground rules is don't do any press without clearing it with me. 399 00:30:04,180 --> 00:30:08,140 You open yourself up to all kinds of things. Usually, they turn on you. 400 00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:12,180 I went out to dinner with Freddie in The White Elephant in Curzon Street. 401 00:30:12,180 --> 00:30:17,540 Casually, he said, "I did an interview with David Wigg from the Express today." 402 00:30:17,540 --> 00:30:22,580 I said, "I told you no interviews without clearing it with me." "Oh, never mind." 403 00:30:22,580 --> 00:30:28,060 I said, "Well, fuck you! If you don't work within my rules, you don't work with me." 404 00:30:28,060 --> 00:30:30,620 I got up and left and I left him there. 405 00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:36,460 I came home, I went upstairs, turned on the TV and the next thing I knew, 406 00:30:36,460 --> 00:30:38,660 a brick came through the window. 407 00:30:38,660 --> 00:30:44,180 And I looked outside here and there's Freddie standing in the street, hands on his hips, 408 00:30:44,180 --> 00:30:47,700 "Don't you ever fucking leave me in a restaurant..." 409 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:49,940 I said, "You'd better come in." 410 00:30:51,260 --> 00:30:54,100 Queen didn't have particular respect 411 00:30:54,100 --> 00:30:58,260 from the critics during the '70s, which is when they had so many hits. 412 00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:03,700 And then punk happened in the late '70s, 413 00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:07,900 which made the standard rock group seem passe. 414 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:10,460 ♪ God save the Queen 415 00:31:10,460 --> 00:31:13,260 ♪ We mean it, man 416 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:20,480 The punk stuff, as opposed to what Queen did, they were coming from two different points of view. 417 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,640 It was anarchy on one side and monarchy on the other. 418 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:29,160 NME was one of the most vocal proponents of punk. 419 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,800 We were taking, if you like, music icons at that time 420 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,440 and we were rubbishing them, basically. 421 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,920 It was thought we should interview Freddie Mercury, in particular, 422 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:46,480 and they asked me to go over to a house in Knightsbridge owned by John Reid 423 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,880 and there's Freddie sitting on the patio. 424 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,520 The whole house was very ostentatious, it must be said. 425 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,720 We did an interview here with the NME 426 00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,640 and, you know, we were very nice to the guy. 427 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,160 I had a butler, we gave him lunch. 428 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,000 There was a butler, there was a bodyguard. 429 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:11,200 There was probably other people going round with feather dusters and what have you. 430 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,920 Then the story slagged off Freddie. 431 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:21,400 Freddie Mercury, when the whole of the punk new wave movement was going on around him, 432 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:29,160 had focused in on something that was kind of a bit of an alien concept in some ways which was ballet. 433 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:40,400 I just feel that there are sort of balletic moments in our repertoire. 434 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,280 One of the things that he said to me 435 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:52,000 was that his mission in life was to bring ballet to the masses. 436 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,600 Well, when the NME piece came out, Freddie was furious. 437 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,160 They called him "a prat". 438 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,800 You'd be furious. 439 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,000 I think we realised that talking to the press gets you nowhere. 440 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,760 You might as well paint a target on your head and go, "Shoot me." 441 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:23,400 We all have our ups and downs and our limitations and we know there are certain things you can't do, 442 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,680 but I don't want some arsehole critic to tell me that. 443 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,600 I love posing. 444 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,160 That's for the press. 445 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,640 Well, we met The Sex Pistols in Wessex Studios 446 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,680 and, uh... 447 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,320 I thought it was fascinating. 448 00:33:51,020 --> 00:33:53,360 Can you imagine it just a whole thing about punk rock 449 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:59,720 And anti establishment... under one roof. 450 00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:03,740 Sid came in. Sid was a moron. You know, he was an idiot. 451 00:34:03,740 --> 00:34:10,340 And he called in to the room, "Have you succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses yet?" 452 00:34:10,340 --> 00:34:15,820 I called him "Simon Ferocious" and he didn't like it. I said, "What are you going to do about it?" 453 00:34:24,460 --> 00:34:28,820 He hated the fact that I could even speak like that. Right. Then... 454 00:34:28,820 --> 00:34:32,180 So we went... I think we survived that test. 455 00:34:32,180 --> 00:34:36,660 ♪ Well, you're just 17 All you wanna do is disappear... ♪ 456 00:34:36,660 --> 00:34:42,860 I thought when we went into News Of The World, we couldn't reinvent ourselves as a punk band, 457 00:34:42,860 --> 00:34:46,620 but we wanted it a little bit more simple. 458 00:34:46,620 --> 00:34:51,940 We thought maybe these really grandiose things weren't quite what was happening then 459 00:34:51,940 --> 00:34:55,980 and to be more of the time, we made a more straightforward record. 460 00:34:55,980 --> 00:35:01,020 Once we had our audience, we felt so confident that they would be there for us 461 00:35:01,020 --> 00:35:04,660 and not require us to be anything that they'd seen before. 462 00:35:04,660 --> 00:35:06,700 Do a twirl? 463 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:11,820 They were very open-minded, Queen audiences, so we never felt constrained. 464 00:35:19,820 --> 00:35:25,380 We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions had a very sort of definite genesis. 465 00:35:25,380 --> 00:35:28,420 The way I remember this story is Bingley Hall. 466 00:35:28,420 --> 00:35:32,460 We played this great hall in the Midlands and it was heaving. 467 00:35:32,460 --> 00:35:38,100 Those gigs that you love, it's all sweaty and hot, everybody is jumping up and down. 468 00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:40,220 And they were singing along. 469 00:35:40,220 --> 00:35:44,620 ♪ She's a killer queen Gunpowder, gelatine 470 00:35:44,620 --> 00:35:49,180 ♪ Dynamite with a laser beam Guaranteed to blow your mind... ♪ 471 00:35:49,180 --> 00:35:55,660 In those days, it was really new. You just didn't go to concerts where people sang to rock bands. 472 00:35:55,660 --> 00:35:59,180 But on this particular occasion, they didn't stop. 473 00:35:59,180 --> 00:36:03,620 And when we went off stage, they sang You'll Never Walk Alone to us. 474 00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:07,860 I'd gone to sleep thinking, "What can an audience do?" 475 00:36:07,860 --> 00:36:13,380 They're all crammed in there. They can stamp their feet, clap their hands and sing. 476 00:36:13,380 --> 00:36:17,020 So I woke up with We Will Rock You in my head. 477 00:36:17,020 --> 00:36:21,060 We went into Wessex with these ideas and that happened to be.. 478 00:36:21,070 --> 00:36:26,620 some boards lying around, strange enough and I thought, "What does this sound like?" 479 00:36:29,740 --> 00:36:36,580 And we multi-tracked it a lot of times to achieve a sound of a big throng of people stamping and clapping, 480 00:36:36,580 --> 00:36:38,820 a huge sort of rally of people. 481 00:36:38,820 --> 00:36:42,660 ♪ We will, we will rock you... ♪ 482 00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:48,620 ♪ We will, we will rock you... ♪ 483 00:36:50,340 --> 00:36:56,700 I came up with We Will Rock You and Freddie with We Are The Champions. His thinking was very similar. 484 00:36:56,700 --> 00:37:00,020 Basically, it is a participation thing. 485 00:37:00,020 --> 00:37:05,060 I've been really cool and I'm just thinking in terms of the public/group thing. 486 00:37:05,060 --> 00:37:08,180 ♪ I've paid my dues 487 00:37:09,260 --> 00:37:12,060 ♪ Time after time... ♪ 488 00:37:13,540 --> 00:37:17,580 We had no idea it would become a universal, worldwide sports anthem. 489 00:37:17,580 --> 00:37:20,340 Both of them did - Rock You and Champions. 490 00:37:20,340 --> 00:37:24,380 In football or whatever sport, you've got two opposing teams. 491 00:37:24,380 --> 00:37:29,340 Both can sing We Are The Champions, but in a rock show, there's only one team. 492 00:37:29,340 --> 00:37:32,380 ♪ I've had my share of sand kicked in my face 493 00:37:32,380 --> 00:37:34,900 ♪ But I've come through... ♪ 494 00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:38,860 It could be construed as a rather elitist thing. 495 00:37:38,860 --> 00:37:44,180 ♪ We are the champions, my friends... ♪ 496 00:37:44,180 --> 00:37:47,700 But it was really "we", the collective "we". 497 00:37:48,780 --> 00:37:54,820 But if I were you, before we find out, let's get the sound... Let's get a real sound on the drums. 498 00:37:54,820 --> 00:37:57,980 It's definitely a song of great unifying power. 499 00:37:57,980 --> 00:38:01,620 ♪ We are the champions 500 00:38:01,620 --> 00:38:05,220 ♪ No time for losers 501 00:38:05,220 --> 00:38:09,780 ♪ Cos we are the champions... ♪ 502 00:38:09,780 --> 00:38:15,300 Here we've got four tracks of vocals, one with the solo guitar, then that's the end bit solo. 503 00:38:15,300 --> 00:38:18,660 I've listened to them. That's the only way we can do it. 504 00:38:18,660 --> 00:38:22,260 Fred was very cheeky. It was about Queen being the champions 505 00:38:22,260 --> 00:38:25,860 in a sense, the arrogance for which we were famous. 506 00:38:25,860 --> 00:38:29,340 ♪ We are the champions 507 00:38:29,340 --> 00:38:33,180 ♪ We are the champions 508 00:38:33,180 --> 00:38:37,140 ♪ No time for losers 509 00:38:37,140 --> 00:38:41,980 ♪ Cos we are the champions. ♪ 510 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:48,500 APPLAUSE 511 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:54,100 Only Queen could come up with the title "We Are The Champions". Where's the modesty gone? 512 00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:57,380 Well, there isn't any. No modesty whatsoever. 513 00:38:57,380 --> 00:39:04,540 After the slaggings-off we get from the English music press, who cares? We've got nothing to lose, you know? 514 00:39:04,540 --> 00:39:08,540 Anyway, it's only a song, isn't it? Fuck 'em! 515 00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:19,460 In those days, it was do the album, do a video, tour America. 516 00:39:21,300 --> 00:39:23,900 One, two! 517 00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:30,540 It was regarded as the sort of grail of the rock scene. 518 00:39:33,060 --> 00:39:35,380 America was meaning more and more to us, 519 00:39:35,380 --> 00:39:39,060 and when you smell success in America, you go for it. 520 00:39:41,820 --> 00:39:45,340 We looked at what was going on in the States at the time. 521 00:39:45,340 --> 00:39:49,940 The music was very much dominated by the cool West Coast 522 00:39:49,940 --> 00:39:53,860 kind of rock with The Eagles and Steely Dan and Fleetwood Mac. 523 00:39:53,860 --> 00:39:57,780 And to some extent, Queen, I guess, didn't fit that mould. 524 00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:07,860 They were bigger, more glamorous, more extravagant than, 525 00:40:07,860 --> 00:40:10,700 I think, anything that existed in the States at the time. 526 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:12,980 They really didn't know what to make of them. 527 00:40:12,980 --> 00:40:15,900 Why would you call your band Queen 528 00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:18,700 when there's obviously four guys in it? 529 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:20,940 That was puzzling. 530 00:40:23,260 --> 00:40:25,220 We were all in one station wagon, 531 00:40:25,220 --> 00:40:30,460 then we were all in one limo, then it was two in one limo 532 00:40:30,460 --> 00:40:33,100 and two in another, then it was one each. 533 00:40:33,100 --> 00:40:36,020 But it was really only because the entourage grew, 534 00:40:36,020 --> 00:40:39,860 it wasn't anything to do with not wanting to talk to one another. 535 00:40:51,860 --> 00:40:53,860 We did stay pretty connected, 536 00:40:53,860 --> 00:40:56,260 we didn't disappear to our dressing rooms. 537 00:40:56,260 --> 00:41:00,740 Generally, we found a big place where we could all get ready together 538 00:41:00,740 --> 00:41:06,860 and we would kind of joke around. We had a good kind of camaraderie. 539 00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:10,780 This is called a miracle, folks! 540 00:41:10,780 --> 00:41:13,220 I've lost my shoe! 541 00:41:13,220 --> 00:41:15,380 Oh, but I don't do my own. 542 00:41:16,900 --> 00:41:19,860 Dave! Do, do, do! 543 00:41:27,300 --> 00:41:31,020 I went to see the Queen show and I had never seen so much luggage 544 00:41:31,020 --> 00:41:34,660 and crew and amps and lighting. 545 00:41:34,660 --> 00:41:37,500 And I said, "This is not rock'n'roll, this is a show. 546 00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:40,020 "This is a production. This is Broadway". 547 00:41:40,020 --> 00:41:43,420 MUSIC: "We Will Rock You" 548 00:41:57,460 --> 00:42:02,620 The audience participation elevated the shows to something really special. 549 00:42:02,620 --> 00:42:05,060 And I think we put a bit of distance between us 550 00:42:05,060 --> 00:42:09,700 and some of our contemporaries like that, because it was such a great two-way event. 551 00:42:09,700 --> 00:42:12,660 This was a coronation for Freddie Mercury in this town. 552 00:42:12,660 --> 00:42:18,060 ♪ We will, we will rock you tonight 553 00:42:18,060 --> 00:42:21,620 ♪ We will, we will rock you 554 00:42:21,620 --> 00:42:24,940 ♪ Buddy you're a young man, hard man, shouting in the street 555 00:42:24,940 --> 00:42:27,060 ♪ Gonna take on the world someday 556 00:42:27,060 --> 00:42:30,340 ♪ Mud on your face, big disgrace 557 00:42:30,340 --> 00:42:33,580 ♪ Waving your banner all over the place 558 00:42:33,580 --> 00:42:37,820 ♪ We will, we will rock you... ♪ 559 00:42:37,820 --> 00:42:40,580 It had always surprised us that it took so long 560 00:42:40,580 --> 00:42:42,340 to break Queen in the States. 561 00:42:44,340 --> 00:42:49,900 It sounds like it happened quickly, but it didn't, it happened over a period of about eight years. 562 00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:51,420 We worked very hard at it. 563 00:42:51,420 --> 00:42:54,540 At no point did you think, "We've made it," cos we hadn't. 564 00:42:54,540 --> 00:42:58,780 This is, um, a Mercury composition 565 00:42:58,780 --> 00:43:00,620 from "A Night At The Opera" 566 00:43:00,620 --> 00:43:03,900 and it's something which a few people asked us to do last time. 567 00:43:03,900 --> 00:43:07,260 So this is for those people. This is "Love Of My Life". 568 00:43:07,260 --> 00:43:11,900 The 1977 US tour was pretty much a sell-out. And midway through, 569 00:43:11,900 --> 00:43:16,020 we actually played two nights at the legendary Madison Square Gardens 570 00:43:16,020 --> 00:43:19,660 in New York, which is a sort of landmark for any artist. 571 00:43:19,660 --> 00:43:21,460 It was a watershed for me. 572 00:43:21,460 --> 00:43:25,380 It was a mythical place, of course, big deal for us to play. 573 00:43:25,380 --> 00:43:30,100 And my parents, from the beginning... Well, my dad, really. 574 00:43:30,100 --> 00:43:33,940 My dad had really been against the whole business of me being a rock star. 575 00:43:33,940 --> 00:43:36,820 It's curious, because he helped me build the guitar. 576 00:43:36,820 --> 00:43:42,220 If it hadn't been for my dad slaving hours and hours making this homemade guitar, 577 00:43:42,220 --> 00:43:45,140 I probably would never have got to this place. 578 00:43:45,140 --> 00:43:48,300 He really felt that I'd thrown my education away. 579 00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:52,420 I mean, I was educated to a high level. So to suddenly to go off and join a rock band 580 00:43:52,420 --> 00:43:57,660 with apparently no future, my dad really could not compute it. 581 00:43:57,660 --> 00:44:02,660 He was kind of in tears, really, he just felt I'd thrown my life away completely. 582 00:44:02,660 --> 00:44:08,620 ♪ You don't know what it means to me... ♪ 583 00:44:08,620 --> 00:44:13,220 But anyway, we were playing Madison Square Garden and I said, 584 00:44:13,220 --> 00:44:16,340 "Look, Dad, this is a big one for us, playing America, 585 00:44:16,340 --> 00:44:20,900 "it's New York, it's the first time we've played this amazing place. Come over." 586 00:44:25,900 --> 00:44:27,900 So I said, "Dad, you'll go on Concorde", 587 00:44:27,900 --> 00:44:33,060 you know, it was my dad and my mum. And they came to the gig 588 00:44:33,060 --> 00:44:35,620 and I remember to this day, this feeling that our feet 589 00:44:35,620 --> 00:44:39,260 weren't really on the ground, there was so much electricity in this place. 590 00:44:39,260 --> 00:44:43,420 ♪ You don't know what it means to me... ♪ 591 00:44:43,420 --> 00:44:47,660 And we came off thinking, "Wow, that was really something," 592 00:44:47,660 --> 00:44:50,380 and then I went back with my dad 593 00:44:50,380 --> 00:44:56,260 and my dad said, "OK." He said, "OK, I get it now." 594 00:44:56,260 --> 00:44:57,860 ♪ Oooh. ♪ 595 00:44:57,860 --> 00:45:00,100 Thank you, Madison Square Garden. 596 00:45:04,020 --> 00:45:06,180 What's happening when we go back to London? 597 00:45:06,180 --> 00:45:09,420 You're one of the few bands that actually haven't left Britain. 598 00:45:09,420 --> 00:45:13,460 We're sort of an English band in a way, we've always lived there. 599 00:45:13,460 --> 00:45:16,580 Well, London particularly. We've always recorded in England. 600 00:45:16,580 --> 00:45:21,620 It doesn't change the fact that the taxman still takes a lot of your money! 601 00:45:21,620 --> 00:45:23,900 I think at the time, we were paying 83%, 602 00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:27,980 and plus, if you had any money in the bank which was earning interest, 603 00:45:27,980 --> 00:45:30,900 another 15%, which makes 98% tax. 604 00:45:30,900 --> 00:45:35,260 So we decided to record the next album, which was "Jazz", in France. 605 00:45:35,260 --> 00:45:38,660 So that's what we did. In a tiny little village called Super Bear, 606 00:45:38,660 --> 00:45:41,780 we started the process of making this album. 607 00:45:41,780 --> 00:45:45,660 ♪ Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle 608 00:45:45,660 --> 00:45:51,220 ♪ I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle... ♪ 609 00:45:51,220 --> 00:45:54,860 Lots of sort of local colour got put onto that album. 610 00:45:54,860 --> 00:45:56,860 ♪ I want to ride my bike... ♪ 611 00:45:56,860 --> 00:46:01,500 We were sitting there and the Tour de France cycle race came through 612 00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:03,740 and inspired Freddie to write "Bicycle..." 613 00:46:03,740 --> 00:46:07,580 and for some strange reason, inspired me to write "Fat Bottomed Girls". 614 00:46:07,580 --> 00:46:10,740 Although there might have been other inspirations there. 615 00:46:10,740 --> 00:46:14,860 ♪ On your marks, get set, go! ♪ 616 00:46:18,380 --> 00:46:20,740 Sadly, we weren't there for the filming. 617 00:46:20,740 --> 00:46:23,660 I thought it was a hugely amusing idea. 618 00:46:23,660 --> 00:46:27,500 ♪ Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle... ♪ 619 00:46:27,500 --> 00:46:31,660 I remember the huge disappointment that none of us could be at the photo shoot. 620 00:46:31,660 --> 00:46:35,980 Because we were exiled from England, so we couldn't go back in to see it! 621 00:46:35,980 --> 00:46:39,180 I don't think you'd be able to do that now, would you? 622 00:46:39,180 --> 00:46:42,300 Yeah, I don't think we would go there these days. 623 00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:43,500 ♪ Bicycle race! ♪ 624 00:46:45,300 --> 00:46:48,060 When it came time to launch the "Jazz" album, 625 00:46:48,060 --> 00:46:51,780 we had the idea of having a massive party in New Orleans. 626 00:46:51,780 --> 00:46:56,180 ♪ Oh, you gonna take me home tonight... ♪ 627 00:46:56,180 --> 00:47:00,820 It was the so-called launch of that album, 628 00:47:00,820 --> 00:47:02,940 and we had lots of girls and things, 629 00:47:02,940 --> 00:47:07,420 there was a New Orleans band, it was a very over-the-top party. 630 00:47:07,420 --> 00:47:12,860 ♪ Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go round... ♪ 631 00:47:16,220 --> 00:47:19,820 We had a bit of a spiritual connection with New Orleans. 632 00:47:19,820 --> 00:47:22,100 A lot of our friends came, of all sexes. 633 00:47:23,380 --> 00:47:25,940 It was definitely fun. 634 00:47:25,940 --> 00:47:28,700 When I opened up the door of my suite, 635 00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:31,940 on the bed was a complete case of Dom Perignon. 636 00:47:31,940 --> 00:47:34,220 And it was downhill from there. 637 00:47:34,220 --> 00:47:38,420 ♪ Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of me... ♪ 638 00:47:38,420 --> 00:47:40,620 I remember I felt quite ill the next day. 639 00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:45,560 There was a lot of acts.. 640 00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:50,200 There was a man, he was actually a person of restricted growth, 641 00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,520 who did lay under meats. 642 00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:56,440 When asked what he did, he said, "I lie under meats." 643 00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:01,760 And he's covered in sort of cold cuts and sort of, um, 644 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:06,320 chopped liver and stuff like that. You couldn't see him. 645 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,800 So people would approach the trestle table 646 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,680 and as they just reached out to scoop their meat, 647 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,120 he would just move, like that. 648 00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,880 And that was his act! 649 00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:25,800 ♪ Tonight, I'm gonna have myself a real good time 650 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,200 ♪ I feel ali-i-i-ive... ♪ 651 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,440 It wasn't a pretence, we actually did live the life of a rock band. 652 00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,000 Sort of living on the edge, in a sense. 653 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:38,880 ♪ Turning inside out, yeah 654 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:44,000 ♪ Floating around in ecstasy 655 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,160 ♪ So don't stop me now... ♪ 656 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,560 "Don't Stop Me Now" is a whole different trip, really. 657 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:54,000 It's become one of the most popular Queen songs of all time. 658 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,440 ♪ I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky like a tiger 659 00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:01,200 ♪ Defying the laws of gravity 660 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:05,520 ♪ I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva 661 00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:10,800 ♪ I'm gonna go, go, go, there's no stopping me 662 00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,280 ♪ I'm burning through the sky, yeah... ♪ 663 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:16,240 It's a song of sort of unfettered joy. 664 00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:17,760 ♪ ..Mr Fahrenheit 665 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,480 ♪ I'm travelling at the speed of light 666 00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,240 ♪ I wanna make a supersonic woman of you... ♪ 667 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:28,120 I've been quoted as saying I don't like the track. 668 00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:31,640 I kind of do like the track, but I had mixed feelings, 669 00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:35,040 because in a sense, it represented a sort of separatism. 670 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,120 It was very much Freddie's world 671 00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,840 and reflecting what he was going through. 672 00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,720 Freddie took to the gay scene in New York 673 00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:46,000 like David Attenborough making a wildlife programme. 674 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:51,000 He'd report on what he'd seen with that kind of "Hey-hey!" attitude that he had. 675 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,640 There was this one particular place called The Anvil, 676 00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:57,800 which seemed to have invented new uses for parts of the human anatomy! 677 00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,160 He was never shocked. 678 00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:02,440 He was eager to be involved in everything, 679 00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,880 it was like he was a social field worker. 680 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,600 ♪ I wanna make a supersonic man out of you... ♪ 681 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,440 As far as I'm concerned, I just want to pack in as much of life 682 00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:16,840 and fun and having a good time as much as I can. 683 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:21,120 ♪ If you want to have a good time, just give me a call 684 00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,080 ♪ Don't stop me now Cos I'm having a good time. 685 00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,880 ♪ Don't stop me now Yes, I'm having a good time 686 00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:30,960 ♪ I don't wanna stop at all 687 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,560 ♪ Da-da da-da dah 688 00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,680 ♪ Da da da-ha 689 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:43,360 ♪ Da-da-da ha-ha-hah 690 00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,440 ♪ Da-da-dah... ♪ 691 00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,080 The album "Jazz" was not a complete flop, 692 00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,720 it got to number 6 in the chart. 693 00:50:51,720 --> 00:50:56,360 But "Don't Stop Me Now", which is a big favourite in Britain to this day, 694 00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,480 in America, only got to the 80s. 695 00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,400 The review in Rolling Stone was notorious. 696 00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,480 And it shows you that Queen were not respected. 697 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,640 We were confused by that title. 698 00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:11,480 Why would a rock band call their album "Jazz"? 699 00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,960 It had a couple of great tracks on it, 700 00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,160 but it had some weaker stuff on it. 701 00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,320 Queen was maybe viewed 702 00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:22,560 as the Indian meal that had gone cold in the refrigerator. 703 00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:26,000 What's going to happen in '79 for Queen? 704 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:30,040 We're going to make more records, tour even more. 705 00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,600 It's difficult to say. This has been our hardest working year. 706 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,920 We'd heard that there was this great studio called Musicland 707 00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:41,040 in Munich, and we'd heard there was this great engineer called Mack. 708 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:44,800 And we got into this rather kind of indulgent way of just 709 00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:48,640 bowling into the studio with no ideas, or very few ideas, 710 00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:50,400 and just doing it from scratch. 711 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,600 "What you got?" "Well I dont know, I've got this." 712 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,680 MUSIC: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" 713 00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,280 ♪ This thing called love... ♪ 714 00:52:05,479 --> 00:52:07,579 First thing we did was "Crazy Little Thing ...." 715 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,360 Fred did write the song in the bath, in about ten minutes. 716 00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:14,880 ♪ Crazy little thing called love... ♪ 717 00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:20,880 Next, he said, "Tell them I'm coming over and we've got to go straight into the studio." 718 00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,640 ♪ Like a baby In the cradle all night... ♪ 719 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,840 I was very quick, had everything set up in pretty much no time, 720 00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:30,920 and they put it down, and then the best bit was, 721 00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:35,120 "Quick, let's finish it before Brian gets here, otherwise it takes a little longer!" 722 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,920 ♪ There goes my baby 723 00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,280 ♪ She knows how to rock and roll 724 00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,600 ♪ She drives me crazy 725 00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:46,960 ♪ She gives me hot and cold fever 726 00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:48,960 ♪ She leaves me in a cold, cold sweat... ♪ 727 00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:57,040 That was the first number 1 across the board in America. 728 00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,800 Billboard, Cashbox and Record World, I think. 729 00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,560 We were still making a record, 730 00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,040 we hadn't even nearly finished the album, 731 00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,160 and we were going out in Munich and somebody came up and said, 732 00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:11,200 "It's gone to number 1 in America." We were going, "Yeah! More drinks!" 733 00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:19,600 So, "Crazy Little Thing..." completely cracked the charts in America. 734 00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:23,240 But it wasn't easy to find the follow-up. 735 00:53:23,240 --> 00:53:27,080 "Play The Game" charted outside the US Top 40. 736 00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:30,920 But the next single was something very different. 737 00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:34,400 One thing I always liked about Queen was they were four individuals, 738 00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:38,480 all of whom brought something to the table, musically and in terms of songwriting, 739 00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:40,920 and that includes the bass player, John Deacon. 740 00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,320 MUSIC: "Another One Bites The Dust" 741 00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,720 I'd always wanted to do something that was more sort of disco-ey, 742 00:53:52,720 --> 00:53:54,600 which was very uncool at the time. 743 00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:57,960 I mean, funk wasn't really in the vocabulary. 744 00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:02,320 Let's go! 745 00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,480 John was pulling us strongly in that direction, sort of funky direction. 746 00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:08,640 And John got Roger to play 747 00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:12,040 with tape all over his drums, which is exactly what Roger hated. 748 00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,480 Roger hated his drums being made to sound dead. 749 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:19,440 I didn't really want to get into dance music. It wasn't my thing. 750 00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,440 ♪ Another one bites the dust... ♪ 751 00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:28,800 Freddie got deeply into it, Freddie sort of sang it until he bled, 752 00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:33,720 cos he was so committed to making it sound the way John wanted it, which was like hardcore... 753 00:54:33,720 --> 00:54:39,480 I don't know what you would call it. But it's more towards black music than white music. 754 00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:46,120 ♪ How do you think I'm going to get along without you when you're gone? 755 00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:50,520 ♪ You took me for everything that I had and kicked me out of my home 756 00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:54,800 ♪ Are you happy? Are you satisfied? How long can you stand the heat? 757 00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:59,680 ♪ Out of the doorway, the bullets whistle to the sound of the beat... ♪ 758 00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:04,320 Michael came to several shows, I think, at the Forum in LA. 759 00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,320 And he loved Freddie. And he kept saying, 760 00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:11,920 "You guys, you've got to put that song out." I wasn't particularly enamoured with it, 761 00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,920 so I said, "No, you're kidding, that's never a single." 762 00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:16,840 ♪ Another one bites the dust... ♪ 763 00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:21,040 "Another One Bites The Dust" was never seen as a single. 764 00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:22,920 It barely made it onto the album! 765 00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:29,960 It got on the radio and it got heard by people that didn't even know who the band was. 766 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,440 ♪ Ah, take it! ♪ 767 00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:37,440 Strangely enough, the record became huge because of the black audience. 768 00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,520 One particular station in New York picked it up, 769 00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,720 thinking that we were a black band, 770 00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:46,120 and played the hell out of it, and it became a huge hit. 771 00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:50,320 It was like number 1 in nine different charts. 772 00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,040 I mean, even in the country chart! It's ridiculous. 773 00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:56,960 And this thing just kept selling, to around three million. 774 00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:00,400 It was in the Hot 100 for 31 weeks. 775 00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,520 When an opponent would get knocked out in a boxing match, 776 00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,120 you'd hear "Another One Bites The Dust" used. 777 00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:10,800 It became an anthem of triumph. 778 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:15,200 ♪ Yeah, ye-e-e-e-a-a-ah! All right! ♪ 779 00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:18,160 I think it's still the biggest record we ever had. 780 00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,840 ♪ Another one bites the dust, yeah! ♪ 781 00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:24,000 People pointing at the cars - "You guys are bad!" 782 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,160 "What does that mean?" "It means you're good!" 783 00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:28,520 ♪ Another one bites the dust 784 00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:32,560 ♪ Hey, gonna get you too, another one bites the dust... ♪ 785 00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:37,120 If you're successful in America, basically, you've made it. 786 00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,320 We kind of became the biggest group in the world at that moment. 787 00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:43,200 It's a fleeting moment, because someone else will come 788 00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,280 and take over. But for that moment, we kind of owned the world. 789 00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,160 MUSIC: "We Are The Champions" 790 00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:57,160 The sales figures tell the story that the people wanted Queen 791 00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,160 even when the press didn't. 792 00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:06,640 Looking back on it now, I'd say Queen were never in fashion. 793 00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,160 We were never a fashionable group, I don't think. 794 00:57:11,240 --> 00:57:13,280 Maybe that was to our benefit, 795 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,720 that we didn't become the thing of the moment, a fashionable thing. 796 00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:20,240 We were just popular, which got right up some people's noses! 797 00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:10,760 Fred, how do you feel, playing and singing 798 00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:13,560 before 200,000 people? Haven't done it yet! 799 00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:18,520 Every song, you felt, was, "They're stealing the show". 800 00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:22,200 I like Queen very much, but I don't want to end up life living a quartet. 801 00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:25,960 The band was pretty much on the verge of falling apart. 802 00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,840 I think he had an idea that he might not be terribly well. 803 00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:32,120 He said, "I'll come back and finish it off," and he never came back. 804 00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,800 That was the last moment that I had with him. 805 00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,160 ♪ Flash, aaah 806 00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,440 ♪ Saviour of the universe... ♪ 807 00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,840 I wanted us to be massively successful, I mean... 808 00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:44,720 I think almost everybody in this business does. 809 00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:48,880 ♪ Flash, aaah 810 00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,080 ♪ He'll save every one of us... ♪ 811 00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,920 Certainly by the beginning of the '80s, 812 00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:57,200 the world domination they'd craved for was definitely there. 813 00:59:57,200 --> 01:00:00,880 ♪ Aaah 814 01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:02,520 ♪ He's a miracle... ♪ 815 01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:08,040 The hardest thing is to actually maintain the level of success you've achieved 816 01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:12,200 because I think when you go all the way up, the only place is to come down. 817 01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:15,320 ♪ Flash, aaah 818 01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:17,520 ♪ King of the impossible... ♪ 819 01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:24,280 You've no idea where you can get to. It's like the sky's the limit. 820 01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:26,200 ♪ He'll save with a mighty hand 821 01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,480 ♪ Every man, every woman, every child with a mighty Flash... ♪ 822 01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:37,560 We didn't want just America, we wanted the whole world, you know. 823 01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,160 South America reared its head 824 01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:50,720 and we heard rumours that we were... the biggest thing ever in Argentina 825 01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:54,000 and Brazil and they started to ask us to go down there. 826 01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:57,040 They were saying, "You can play football stadiums down there." 827 01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:58,600 We went, "You're joking." 828 01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:02,400 In those days under the dictatorship in Argentina, 829 01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:06,080 we were negotiating with the army general and he said to me, 830 01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:09,200 "How can I possibly allow 50,000 young people into a stadium 831 01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:10,600 "when I can't control them? 832 01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:14,200 "What happens if somebody suddenly shouts out 'Viva Peron' 833 01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:18,640 "in the middle of a Queen concert and I have a riot on my hands?" 834 01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:22,320 And I tried to explain to him that, rather like 835 01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:27,240 gladiatorial matches in Rome, this was panacea to the people, 836 01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,560 they'd never, ever had this before, 837 01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:32,440 this would be an extraordinary experience. 838 01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,960 So we got the whole thing together 839 01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:41,200 and it was God knows how many jumbo jets full of equipment. 840 01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:45,640 And when we arrived in Buenos Aires, as we're unloading it, 841 01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,880 you could see spent bullet cases, and thinking, 842 01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:51,560 "Yeah, we really are in a very different place here." 843 01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:56,880 We were looking for a bodyguard for Freddie, this particular man came in 844 01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:01,120 and his opening recommendation was that he'd killed 212 people. 845 01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:04,160 The travel arrangements were very scary. 846 01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,240 Driving the wrong way along a raised motorway 847 01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:11,720 with outriders, with guys in big jeeps waving their big guns 848 01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:15,840 and getting the cars, coming straight towards them, to pull over. 849 01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:19,360 We got caught in a traffic jam and one of the policemen just stood up, 850 01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:20,920 put his head through the roof 851 01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:25,640 and started firing his gun in the air in order to clear the traffic. 852 01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:26,840 Very hair-raising. 853 01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:30,400 Hello, amigos. 854 01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,880 HE SPEAKS PORTUGUESE 855 01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:42,320 Fred, how do you feel playing and singing before 200,000 people? 856 01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:44,640 I haven't done it yet! 857 01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:52,440 I can remember being nervous the first night. 858 01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:56,960 The top tier alone took 80,000 and we were in this sort of dug-out 859 01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,720 which I guess the football teams would normally be in. 860 01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:03,160 All the windows were broken and I remember thinking 861 01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:07,160 this is... You know, it's going to take some balls to walk out there. 862 01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:08,280 Hello, Sao Paulo! 863 01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:29,080 ♪ Get your party gown 864 01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:30,560 ♪ Get your pigtail down 865 01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:32,480 ♪ Get your heart beating, baby 866 01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:34,920 ♪ Get your timing right 867 01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:36,920 ♪ I got my act all tight 868 01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:40,120 ♪ It's gotta be tonight My little school babe 869 01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:41,760 ♪ Your momma says you don't 870 01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,560 ♪ Your daddy says you won't And I'm boiling up inside... ♪ 871 01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,560 They knew all the songs. These people don't speak English 872 01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:49,760 but they could sing along all the Queen songs 873 01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:53,000 so they're obviously very genuine fans and they went nuts. 874 01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:56,320 ♪ Tie your mother down Tie your mother down 875 01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:59,160 ♪ Lock your daddy out of doors I don't need him nosing around 876 01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:02,560 ♪ Tie your mother down Tie your mother down 877 01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:07,000 ♪ Give me all your love tonight 878 01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:13,160 ♪ Tonight... ♪ 879 01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:15,120 It also takes a certain ego 880 01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:19,000 and a certain drive to want to be 881 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,520 in that spotlight and go on display. 882 01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:26,000 And Freddie thrived and got better in bigger arenas. 883 01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:27,040 ♪ Yeah 884 01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:28,160 AUDIENCE: # Yeah 885 01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:29,240 ♪ Yeah 886 01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:30,400 ♪ Yeah 887 01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:31,440 ♪ Yeah ye-yeah yeah 888 01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:32,760 ♪ Yeah ye-yeah yeah 889 01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:34,000 ♪ Yeah yeah ye-ye-yeah 890 01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:35,400 ♪ Yeah yeah ye-ye-yeah 891 01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,360 ♪ All right All right 892 01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:39,200 ♪ All right All right 893 01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:40,840 ♪ Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah 894 01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:42,000 ♪ Yeah Yeah 895 01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:43,640 ♪ Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah 896 01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:45,160 ♪ Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah 897 01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:46,200 ♪ Yeah Yeah 898 01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:47,240 ♪ Yeah 899 01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:48,720 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah 900 01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:54,160 ♪ Aaaaaaaall right 901 01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:59,120 ♪ Aaaaaaaall right 902 01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:01,880 Let's do it to tempo. 903 01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:09,840 Once we'd finished Argentina and Brazil, 904 01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:12,360 the band decided to go back into the studio 905 01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:15,520 and they had of course bought the studios in Montreux, here. 906 01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:29,320 Mountain Studios was in the casino by the lake in Montreux. 907 01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:32,400 When they first arrived it was, like, the top studio in Europe. 908 01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:37,600 We were in the studio in Montreux and David Bowie lives nearby. 909 01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:41,120 I think we went out for a meal or drinks or something 910 01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:44,000 and then landed up back in the studio with the sort of 911 01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:45,840 rough intention of doing something. 912 01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:48,480 We were fooling around and just... 913 01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:51,280 jamming with tracks and suddenly we said, 914 01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:54,760 "Why don't we just see what we can do on the spur of the moment?" 915 01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:59,280 Then it's the pressure of His Majesty David being there 916 01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:04,000 and everybody wanted to look suave and quick with ideas and stuff. 917 01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:06,960 Deacy of course came up with this riff - dun dun dun de de dun dun. 918 01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:09,040 "UNDER PRESSURE" BASS RIFF PLAYS 919 01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:11,160 ♪ Bom bom bom buddle der der 920 01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:12,680 ♪ Ding ding ding digger ding ding 921 01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:17,560 He kept playing that over and over and over again. 922 01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:21,960 And then we went for a pizza and he forgot it. 923 01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:26,720 Completely escaped his mind! We got back and I remembered it. 924 01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:32,200 And of course, we're used to playing together and now we have this 925 01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:35,720 other guy there who's also inputting, inputting, inputting. 926 01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:38,120 David's idea of putting these clicks and claps 927 01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:40,280 and then the track just grew. 928 01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:47,720 By that time, David was very impassioned. 929 01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:50,560 He had a vision in his head, I think. 930 01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:53,520 It's quite a difficult process and somebody has to back off 931 01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:55,800 and actually I did back off, unusual for me. 932 01:06:55,800 --> 01:07:00,320 ♪ Pressure pushing down on me 933 01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:01,720 ♪ Pressing down on you 934 01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:03,880 ♪ No man ask for 935 01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:05,520 ♪ Under pressure 936 01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:08,680 ♪ That burns a building down 937 01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:11,200 ♪ Splits a family in two 938 01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:12,640 ♪ Puts people on streets... ♪ 939 01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:15,520 For the vocals, one of them was to be locked out 940 01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:17,880 and not allowed to hear what the other one sang 941 01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:20,360 and they sang anything off the top of their heads. 942 01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:22,360 ♪ It never rains but it pours 943 01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:24,400 ♪ Um ba-ba bey... ♪ 944 01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:29,400 Fred starts doing his bum-didder-dup and his bits-and-pieces 945 01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:31,800 and I see out of the corner of my eye, 946 01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:34,960 I see David sticking his head in, listening. 947 01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:38,800 Then Fred came down, David went up and Freddie was quite impressed 948 01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,400 that he was counterpointing to what he did before. 949 01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:43,200 ♪ ..This world is about 950 01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:47,040 ♪ Watching some good friends screaming let me out 951 01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:51,000 ♪ Pray tomorrow gets me higher, high, high 952 01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:55,240 ♪ Pressure on people People on streets... ♪ 953 01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:58,000 And Fred said, "What do you make of this?" 954 01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:02,480 I said, "It's kind of easy if you stand in the doorway listening to what you're doing." 955 01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:05,960 And Freddie turned, "What the BLEEP"? 956 01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:11,200 ♪ Cos love's such an old fashioned word 957 01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:14,280 ♪ And love dares you 958 01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:20,960 ♪ To care for the people on the edge of the night 959 01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:23,920 ♪ And love dares you 960 01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:26,640 ♪ To change our way of 961 01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:30,720 ♪ Caring about ourselves 962 01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:34,480 ♪ This is our last dance... ♪ 963 01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:39,480 The result is very good but it was a difficult experience, I think, 964 01:08:39,480 --> 01:08:42,600 because people pulling in different directions, in a sense. 965 01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:43,840 ♪ Under pressure... ♪ 966 01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:47,920 Under Pressure, David Bowie, the band, me, 967 01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:50,920 I don't think it mixed too well. 968 01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:52,480 ♪ Pressure. ♪ 969 01:08:52,480 --> 01:08:55,000 Shame actually, it's... 970 01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:59,760 I thought it was fabulous, we could've done some incredible further things, actually. 971 01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:11,040 Well, here we have a total change of life for all of us, really. 972 01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:14,440 We went back to Munich to do the next album 973 01:09:14,440 --> 01:09:17,920 and really, I suppose, things started to go downhill. 974 01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:21,520 It's actually a rather grim place. 975 01:09:21,520 --> 01:09:27,000 It's a studio in the basement of a huge tower block which is a hotel. 976 01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:30,240 And it's kind of depressing. 977 01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:34,680 A lot of people used to jump off that building and kill themselves, 978 01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:37,360 off that particular building, it was well known for it. 979 01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:40,720 We didn't know that until we got there, so we went a bit nuts. 980 01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:47,480 By that time, we were getting very finicky about recording 981 01:09:47,480 --> 01:09:48,880 and we spent months there. 982 01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:57,760 After the massive success of Another One Bites The Dust, 983 01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:02,080 the thinking was we'll make an album that's slightly more dance orientated. 984 01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:03,360 Not my idea. 985 01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:06,360 Especially in Freddie's entourage, 986 01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:09,920 I won't mention any names like Paul Prenter, for instance, 987 01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:14,440 loathed guitars and found that Brian was old fashioned. 988 01:10:14,440 --> 01:10:17,560 Paul Prenter had become Freddie's personal assistant. 989 01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:21,040 He was a very, very bad influence upon Freddie, 990 01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:23,360 hence on the band, really. 991 01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:26,200 He very much wanted our music to sound 992 01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,200 like you'd just walked in a gay club. 993 01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:29,880 And I didn't. 994 01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:31,680 ♪ Back chat, back chat 995 01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:33,760 ♪ Criticising all you see 996 01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:35,680 ♪ Back chat, back chat 997 01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:37,640 ♪ Analysing what I say... ♪ 998 01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:40,240 There were a lot of strains in the band that'd happen 999 01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:43,960 with four people of that strength of character. 1000 01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:48,880 Everybody had their say and the arguments were creative and then it would become personal. 1001 01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:51,040 Of course! 1002 01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:54,720 It was a sort of emotional roller coaster. 1003 01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:58,160 I think less and less time was spent in the studio. 1004 01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:04,920 Get up about three o'clock and go and have breakfast 1005 01:11:04,920 --> 01:11:07,920 and then a bit of work would be done and then you'd have dinner 1006 01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:12,640 and then one of the roadies would start mixing cocktails and then... 1007 01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:16,160 other things would...ahem, happen. 1008 01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:17,840 ♪ Give me... ♪ 1009 01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:22,520 I'm not saying cocaine and other drugs 1010 01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:25,600 and loose women had anything to do with that at all. 1011 01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:27,480 Wink, wink, nudge, nudge! 1012 01:11:27,480 --> 01:11:30,480 ♪ Body, body 1013 01:11:30,480 --> 01:11:34,560 ♪ Give me your body... ♪ 1014 01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:38,040 It turned into a rather exhausting cycle, I think, in the end. 1015 01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:41,080 ♪ Don't talk, don't talk, don't talk 1016 01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:42,880 ♪ Baby, don't talk... ♪ 1017 01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:46,240 I don't know if I can say this... Yes, I could probably say this. 1018 01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:50,880 We all got ourselves into deep trouble emotionally in Munich 1019 01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:56,280 and Freddie was no exception, he got himself deep into emotional waters which he couldn't really handle 1020 01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:58,560 and was very unhappy for some of the time. 1021 01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:03,480 ♪ Give me your body... ♪ 1022 01:12:03,480 --> 01:12:07,760 He was being sucked into places which really probably weren't good for him. 1023 01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:10,200 And I think we all felt that 1024 01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:12,880 and realised that he was in some kind of danger. 1025 01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:16,480 ♪ Give me, yeah 1026 01:12:16,480 --> 01:12:20,120 ♪ Your body... ♪ 1027 01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:24,120 I certainly saw the change in Freddie... 1028 01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:25,240 ♪ Don't talk... ♪ 1029 01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:28,400 ..in the club Heaven in 1983. 1030 01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:30,800 I said to him, "Have you modified your behaviour 1031 01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:34,200 "in light of 'the new disease'", which as of yet did not have a name. 1032 01:12:35,840 --> 01:12:39,080 And with the sweep of his arms in a theatrical fashion, he said, 1033 01:12:39,080 --> 01:12:44,760 "Darling, my attitude is fuck it, I'm doing everything with everybody." 1034 01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:47,960 If someone kept a chart of rock and roll royalty, 1035 01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:49,760 Queen would have to be at the top. 1036 01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:52,320 Now Queen is back on tour 1037 01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:55,080 and perhaps up against their biggest challenge yet. 1038 01:12:55,080 --> 01:13:00,600 Now, most of you know that we've got some new sounds out last week and... 1039 01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:05,400 ..for what it's worth, we're going to do a few songs in 1040 01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:08,560 the funk-black category, whatever you call it. 1041 01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:11,000 Record sales are not as strong as in the past 1042 01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:13,200 and that's left everyone wondering. 1043 01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:14,960 I don't like everything that we do. 1044 01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:17,080 I like a lot of what we do but not everything. 1045 01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:20,120 It depends on whatever the four individuals in the group, 1046 01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:23,440 what music they're into at the time and what songs they're writing. 1047 01:13:23,440 --> 01:13:27,200 There might be a couple of songs come out you don't like very much. 1048 01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:28,440 I could name a couple! 1049 01:13:28,440 --> 01:13:32,200 Well, Hot Space in Queen terms was pretty disastrous, really. 1050 01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:35,200 It didn't appeal to some of the hardcore Queen fans 1051 01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:38,440 who would turn up at concerts with banners saying "disco sucks". 1052 01:13:38,440 --> 01:13:43,080 It's only a bloody record, people get so excited about these things. I mean... 1053 01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:45,560 The band... 1054 01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:47,920 It was pretty much on the verge of falling apart. 1055 01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:51,680 I think we had a couple of meetings and staff to discuss 1056 01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:53,680 were we still together etc, etc. 1057 01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:56,760 What to do if you're a member of an internationally successful 1058 01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:59,040 rock band but want to blow off creative steam 1059 01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:01,040 that doesn't fit the band's image. 1060 01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:03,560 Our next guest has faced that, he is Roger Taylor. 1061 01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:07,680 He's just blown off some of his own steam with his second solo album, 1062 01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:09,400 Strange Frontier. Let's look at it. 1063 01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:12,560 ♪ Sometimes I feel like a man on fire 1064 01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:15,240 ♪ Sometimes I feel like a man possessed 1065 01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:19,880 ♪ Sometimes I wanna burn down this crazy town... ♪ 1066 01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:21,600 I think we decided we needed a break. 1067 01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:26,120 Queen propelled us into the world but also in a sense it confined us 1068 01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:30,440 into a very small space. We just worked with each other, not the other fabulous musicians. 1069 01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:35,840 I ended up in LA and one morning just got up 1070 01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:39,080 and rang up some mates there and said, "Why don't we do something?" 1071 01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:41,520 And it led to the Star Fleet Project. 1072 01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:44,440 ♪ Star fleet, star fleet 1073 01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:50,240 ♪ Star fleet, star fleet... ♪ 1074 01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:55,720 At a certain point we were all ready, there's no doubt. 1075 01:14:55,720 --> 01:14:58,000 We'd been off doing our different things, 1076 01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:01,160 refreshing ourselves but we were ready to get back in the studio. 1077 01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:10,280 This is the hardest time for us, this is a big test, we've been 1078 01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:16,200 in the business 12 years and to keep it going that much further is hard. 1079 01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:17,720 The Works was the next album. 1080 01:15:17,720 --> 01:15:19,920 We thought we wanted somewhere nice and warm 1081 01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:22,320 and not freezing bloody cold Munich. 1082 01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:25,400 So that really made sense, to go to LA to make that record. 1083 01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:30,520 And I think we got back on track in The Works, actually. 1084 01:15:34,480 --> 01:15:37,120 They were a complicated musical marriage. 1085 01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:40,200 They didn't have one room in a studio, they had three or four. 1086 01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:43,520 Studio B, Studio C, Studio D, Studio E. 1087 01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:44,920 But that was a good thing 1088 01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:47,840 cos it allowed everybody to work on their individual songs. 1089 01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:50,160 In the early days it was Brian and Freddie 1090 01:15:50,160 --> 01:15:52,360 who really used to write most of the material 1091 01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:54,360 but over the last five years, 1092 01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:57,640 Roger and I have started to contribute more. 1093 01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:03,960 I thought John Deacon was kind of a secret weapon because 1094 01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:06,960 he would come up with these major hits out of nowhere. 1095 01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:10,080 He had this track, I Want To Break Free, 1096 01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:13,400 and it was pretty much there except this big hole in the middle. 1097 01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:19,200 I mean, John did not want a guitar solo so he asked Fred Mandel, 1098 01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:22,080 a very brilliant keyboard player, to improvise something 1099 01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:25,520 around the main tune and Fred did this brilliant take. 1100 01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:32,120 SYNTHESIZER ON "I WANT TO BREAK FREE" 1101 01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:40,240 You know, all their records used to say prominently "no synthesizers" 1102 01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:42,600 then I come along like another schmuck 1103 01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:44,720 and put synthesizers on everything. 1104 01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:49,160 I wasn't too happy at the time but I gave it my blessing, 1105 01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:50,200 that's the deal. 1106 01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:56,200 The polarity of writing within the band changed. 1107 01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:58,600 I think the time has come where we actually... 1108 01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:00,760 in songwriting, we're completely even. 1109 01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:04,920 Roger will come up with something like Radio Ga Ga and it's perfect. 1110 01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:13,320 It was Sunday afternoon, my son Felix came in, he was very young 1111 01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:17,160 and he just sort of went, "Ah, radio, caca" 1112 01:17:17,160 --> 01:17:19,120 cos he's half French. 1113 01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:23,240 And, um, I just thought that's quite nice, you know. 1114 01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:28,080 I put the backing track together 1115 01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:30,720 and presented it to Freddie who really loved it. 1116 01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:41,920 We took it into the next room and then Fred and I worked 1117 01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:43,280 on the vocoder parts. 1118 01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:45,560 ♪ All we hear is 1119 01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:47,080 ♪ Radio ga ga 1120 01:17:47,080 --> 01:17:49,720 ♪ Radio goo goo 1121 01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:51,480 ♪ Radio ga ga... ♪ 1122 01:17:51,480 --> 01:17:54,600 If you listen, several times it says "radio caca". 1123 01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:56,120 ♪ Radio ga ga 1124 01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:58,880 ♪ Radio ga ga... ♪ 1125 01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:01,840 Radio Ga Ga brought Queen back. 1126 01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:04,520 ♪ Radio... ♪ 1127 01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:06,200 It came from a rock thing. 1128 01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:08,680 Radio Ga Ga combined the best elements of 1129 01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:10,400 the '70s with the '80s. 1130 01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:12,840 That's where Queen had a strength with The Works. 1131 01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:16,320 It was more of a substantial hit even though it didn't actually make 1132 01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:18,440 the top 10 in America. 1133 01:18:18,440 --> 01:18:21,680 But it got played a lot and the video made a big impact. 1134 01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:23,560 ♪ Let's hope you never 1135 01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:25,800 ♪ Leave, old friend 1136 01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:27,640 ♪ Like all good things 1137 01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:29,920 ♪ On you we depend 1138 01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:32,040 ♪ So stick around 1139 01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:34,800 ♪ Cos we might miss you... ♪ 1140 01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:38,640 We had a killer video which we put a lot of work into. 1141 01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:40,600 ♪ You had your time 1142 01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:42,280 ♪ You had the power 1143 01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:44,520 ♪ You've yet to have... ♪ 1144 01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:47,280 The whole thing just felt good, of its time. 1145 01:18:47,280 --> 01:18:51,760 It felt a bit different. It felt modern and it was very fresh. 1146 01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:56,040 ♪ All we hear is radio ga ga 1147 01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:57,640 ♪ Radio goo goo 1148 01:18:57,640 --> 01:19:00,280 ♪ Radio ga ga... ♪ 1149 01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:04,320 All of a sudden people, would participate jointly 1150 01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:06,640 in Radio Ga Ga situations. 1151 01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:11,280 A collective statement that was good on the radio, 1152 01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:13,160 or on a turntable. 1153 01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:15,440 In live, it really was a unification. 1154 01:19:15,440 --> 01:19:19,320 ♪ All we hear is radio ga ga 1155 01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:21,000 ♪ Radio goo goo 1156 01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:22,880 ♪ Radio ga ga... ♪ 1157 01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:25,720 Freddie said, "What we do is like the Olympics. 1158 01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:28,560 "It's people believing in you and everyone behind you. 1159 01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:30,320 "Everyone doing the same thing. 1160 01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:33,800 "That's the Olympics." He said, "That's what we do." 1161 01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:37,880 ♪ Radio ga ga, radio ga ga... ♪ 1162 01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:42,400 Suddenly the MTV generation grew up and video became all-important. 1163 01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:56,520 The most enjoyable video was I Want To Break Free 1164 01:19:56,520 --> 01:19:57,880 because we just laughed. 1165 01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:08,760 I was dying to dress up in drag. Doesn't everybody? 1166 01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:14,080 And everybody ran into their frocks quicker than anything. 1167 01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:19,000 It was their idea, basically, and I said, "Yeah, let's have a go." 1168 01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:21,880 ♪ I want to break free 1169 01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:26,280 ♪ I want to break free 1170 01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:31,280 ♪ I want to break free from your lies... ♪ 1171 01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:36,120 That great video was a loving reference to Coronation Street. 1172 01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:38,000 ♪ I've got to break free... ♪ 1173 01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:41,400 Americans didn't understand it. It just looked like we wanted to dress up in drag. 1174 01:20:41,400 --> 01:20:45,680 It was unthinkable to most of middle America. 1175 01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:47,920 ♪ I've got to break free... ♪ 1176 01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:53,840 It's a very British thing. Sometimes the humour doesn't translate. I'm Canadian so I get it. 1177 01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:00,960 It was just a different style of humour 1178 01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:03,520 and I don't think it went over with the "MTV generation". 1179 01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:11,040 I remember this video being banned. 1180 01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:14,000 MTV were very quick on the trigger to ban things then. 1181 01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:16,840 I mean, if you thought Mary Whitehouse was bad, 1182 01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:20,600 you should have seen some of the geezers running MTV 1183 01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:22,400 in the very early '80s. 1184 01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:31,240 Well, MTV were very narrow-minded. 1185 01:21:31,240 --> 01:21:34,480 It was Whitesnake, and fucking Whitesnake, 1186 01:21:34,480 --> 01:21:36,720 and then another Whitesnake track. 1187 01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:42,760 And they decided that they didn't think men in drag 1188 01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:47,320 was rock enough for them, I guess, so they didn't play the video. 1189 01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:53,520 Most Americans were deprived of my, and Freddie's, 1190 01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:55,320 favourite moment of that video. 1191 01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:58,120 I said to Freddie, "I love the way you double-step... 1192 01:21:58,120 --> 01:21:59,880 ♪ But life still goes on... ♪ 1193 01:21:59,880 --> 01:22:02,400 ..to get from one room to the other. 1194 01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:06,120 And he said, "I'm so glad you noticed. That's my favourite part." 1195 01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:09,240 ♪ ..without you by my side 1196 01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:13,920 ♪ I don't want to live alone 1197 01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:17,680 ♪ Hey, God knows 1198 01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:20,520 ♪ I've got to make it... ♪ 1199 01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:25,520 The funny thing is, we became global but we lost America. 1200 01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:28,160 And we kind of never got it back. 1201 01:22:28,160 --> 01:22:31,760 ♪ I've got to break free. ♪ 1202 01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:35,480 Freddie wouldn't go back to tour America 1203 01:22:35,480 --> 01:22:37,800 unless they were touring a hit, 1204 01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:40,120 and of course that's the chicken and egg 1205 01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:43,720 because the less you tour America, the more you lose America. 1206 01:22:43,720 --> 01:22:48,040 It was sad, it's a shame, because there's a whole catalogue of hits, 1207 01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:52,080 worldwide hits, but not in the States, and that'll never come back. 1208 01:22:56,340 --> 01:22:59,460 Appearing at Sun City never helped anybody's image, 1209 01:22:59,460 --> 01:23:01,060 and sometimes it hurt. 1210 01:23:01,060 --> 01:23:06,380 Sun City was this resort of international standard in South Africa 1211 01:23:06,380 --> 01:23:09,380 and the position taken by most of the rock community 1212 01:23:09,380 --> 01:23:12,660 was that if you went to South Africa you supported apartheid. 1213 01:23:12,660 --> 01:23:15,660 It's very nice to be here in South Africa 1214 01:23:15,660 --> 01:23:17,740 and I just want to have a good time. 1215 01:23:17,740 --> 01:23:20,100 Anything you'd like to say to your fans? 1216 01:23:20,100 --> 01:23:24,100 Yeah, we hope you get real excited, because we're pretty excited to be here. 1217 01:23:24,100 --> 01:23:26,260 The controversy behind Sun City... 1218 01:23:26,260 --> 01:23:29,060 Sun Fucking City - wish I'd never heard of the place. 1219 01:23:29,060 --> 01:23:31,180 The principal reason that Queen went there 1220 01:23:31,180 --> 01:23:34,020 was because they were offered a large amount of money. 1221 01:23:34,020 --> 01:23:36,380 There was all sorts of hoo-ha going on, 1222 01:23:36,380 --> 01:23:39,580 you know - "You mustn't play Sun City because it's a sign 1223 01:23:39,580 --> 01:23:42,140 "that you're supporting apartheid." 1224 01:23:42,140 --> 01:23:44,420 Well, it's simply not true. 1225 01:23:44,420 --> 01:23:47,140 If you adopted a policy of never playing in a country 1226 01:23:47,140 --> 01:23:49,540 where you don't approve of the politicians, 1227 01:23:49,540 --> 01:23:51,660 there'd be very few places you can play. 1228 01:23:51,660 --> 01:23:54,020 Did you know you had so many fans in South Africa? 1229 01:23:54,020 --> 01:23:56,780 Well, I think we had some idea of our popularity here, 1230 01:23:56,780 --> 01:24:00,020 but we didn't realise it was quite that. 1231 01:24:00,020 --> 01:24:04,140 Jim went down there time after time and I asked if we'd play to mixed audiences. 1232 01:24:04,140 --> 01:24:06,700 He said we wouldn't play to segregated audiences. 1233 01:24:06,700 --> 01:24:10,740 And it was not an apartheid audience, 1234 01:24:10,740 --> 01:24:13,340 but it was mainly white. 1235 01:24:13,340 --> 01:24:15,660 Are you going to the concert? Definitely. 1236 01:24:15,660 --> 01:24:18,220 What have you heard? I heard it's a great show. 1237 01:24:18,220 --> 01:24:21,420 What are you expecting at the concert? Something fantastic. 1238 01:24:21,420 --> 01:24:24,020 I've heard it's the most fantastic show ever. 1239 01:24:24,020 --> 01:24:27,700 The band then supported a school for the deaf in Bophutswana 1240 01:24:27,700 --> 01:24:29,660 that we became very involved with. 1241 01:24:29,660 --> 01:24:33,940 The general audience doesn't read the small print. It just sees the headlines. 1242 01:24:33,940 --> 01:24:38,660 If it goes, "You're making a lot of money playing a gig in an apartheid state", 1243 01:24:38,660 --> 01:24:42,380 it makes it look like you're following apartheid. It did not help them. 1244 01:24:42,380 --> 01:24:46,700 I will say to my dying day that we acted properly 1245 01:24:46,700 --> 01:24:49,900 according to our conscience as regards South Africa. 1246 01:24:49,900 --> 01:24:51,660 Um... We went there to play music, 1247 01:24:51,660 --> 01:24:54,540 the same as we did in all kinds of other places. 1248 01:24:54,540 --> 01:24:58,860 We got so much shit for it. But we went for good reasons. 1249 01:24:58,860 --> 01:25:01,660 But, on balance, I think it was a mistake to go. 1250 01:25:01,660 --> 01:25:05,060 Whenever the band came under pressure, 1251 01:25:05,060 --> 01:25:09,420 there would be maybe a walkout, a separation, a row. 1252 01:25:10,540 --> 01:25:14,620 ♪ Sometimes I feel I'm going to break down and cry 1253 01:25:14,620 --> 01:25:17,540 ♪ Nowhere to go Nothing to do with my time 1254 01:25:17,540 --> 01:25:19,700 ♪ I get lonely 1255 01:25:21,140 --> 01:25:23,660 ♪ So lonely 1256 01:25:24,620 --> 01:25:25,900 ♪ Living on my own... ♪ 1257 01:25:25,900 --> 01:25:29,540 I like Queen very much, but I don't want to end up living a quartet. 1258 01:25:29,540 --> 01:25:32,700 I'm 37 years old I want to do something different, 1259 01:25:32,700 --> 01:25:36,260 otherwise I'll get too damn old and I'll be in a wheelchair. 1260 01:25:36,260 --> 01:25:40,220 There was a lot of strain when Freddie did his solo album, 1261 01:25:40,220 --> 01:25:42,260 mainly because the advance 1262 01:25:42,260 --> 01:25:45,460 was considerably more than the advances for Queen albums. 1263 01:25:45,460 --> 01:25:48,300 ♪ Got to be some good times ahead 1264 01:25:49,380 --> 01:25:51,900 ♪ Sometimes I feel nobody gives me no warning... ♪ 1265 01:25:51,900 --> 01:25:53,620 There is an inward jealousy - 1266 01:25:53,620 --> 01:25:56,380 they're all waiting to see if my album does better 1267 01:25:56,380 --> 01:25:59,100 than the last Queen album, or something like that. 1268 01:25:59,100 --> 01:26:01,100 ♪ It's not easy 1269 01:26:02,540 --> 01:26:05,260 ♪ Living on my own... ♪ 1270 01:26:05,260 --> 01:26:07,860 Sometimes it's nice to break away from a group 1271 01:26:07,860 --> 01:26:11,380 that's actually been going for so long, meaning staying away. 1272 01:26:11,380 --> 01:26:16,020 He was definitely contemplating the idea of what Living On My Own 1273 01:26:16,020 --> 01:26:21,740 actually means because he lived in Munich for well over a year. 1274 01:26:21,740 --> 01:26:24,700 ♪ Got to be some good times ahead... ♪ 1275 01:26:27,660 --> 01:26:29,380 When Freddie was alone in Munich, 1276 01:26:29,380 --> 01:26:34,140 he had to basically fall back either on the gay community, 1277 01:26:34,140 --> 01:26:39,260 or, when he needed some sense or decent advice, he would call us. 1278 01:26:39,260 --> 01:26:43,780 He was hanging out a lot at our place. 1279 01:26:43,780 --> 01:26:46,260 He'd spend a lot of time with the kids. 1280 01:26:46,260 --> 01:26:49,540 It was like a family affair. 1281 01:26:53,260 --> 01:26:57,940 He said a lot of times that this was the best time in his life. 1282 01:26:57,940 --> 01:27:00,620 Out of the songs you've put on this album, Freddie, 1283 01:27:00,620 --> 01:27:04,580 which one do you find the most rewarding, personally? 1284 01:27:04,580 --> 01:27:07,060 Oh, I don't know, the one that sells the most. 1285 01:27:07,060 --> 01:27:10,300 Freddie had a very fulfilling experience of creativity, 1286 01:27:10,300 --> 01:27:13,540 but he didn't have a very fulfilling experience, 1287 01:27:13,540 --> 01:27:18,060 um...how shall I say, economically. 1288 01:27:18,060 --> 01:27:23,300 The Mr Bad Guy album really was a disaster, in terms of sales. 1289 01:27:23,300 --> 01:27:26,140 The strength of Queen came from the arguments. 1290 01:27:26,140 --> 01:27:29,540 It was the fact that you had to fight your space. 1291 01:27:29,540 --> 01:27:32,260 Songs got fine-tuned by that, 1292 01:27:32,260 --> 01:27:37,460 and Freddie working on his own in Munich with an orchestra and Mack, 1293 01:27:37,460 --> 01:27:40,900 there was nobody really to stand up with him. 1294 01:27:45,100 --> 01:27:48,180 Well, tomorrow, the pop world's greatest extravaganza, 1295 01:27:48,180 --> 01:27:50,180 as we've been talking about, Live Aid, 1296 01:27:50,180 --> 01:27:54,340 will bring together rock's brightest and best from both sides of the Atlantic, 1297 01:27:54,340 --> 01:27:58,700 all performing free in the hope of raising millions for the starving people of Africa. 1298 01:28:02,580 --> 01:28:06,860 You know, looking back, there was a moment when Queen were thought of 1299 01:28:06,860 --> 01:28:09,220 as a good group that was predominantly historic. 1300 01:28:09,220 --> 01:28:12,820 Radio Ga Ga was their one big hit in four years. 1301 01:28:12,820 --> 01:28:15,020 They weren't on a hot streak, 1302 01:28:15,020 --> 01:28:18,180 and they weren't a particularly productive group at that time. 1303 01:28:18,180 --> 01:28:21,980 There was a feeling that maybe that was it. 1304 01:28:21,980 --> 01:28:27,900 But Geldof ordered them to regroup and perform. 1305 01:28:27,900 --> 01:28:31,180 The thing was, did Freddie want to do it? He wasn't that keen. 1306 01:28:31,180 --> 01:28:34,060 Freddie was a bit reticent about doing anything, 1307 01:28:34,060 --> 01:28:35,700 but Bob came in one day 1308 01:28:35,700 --> 01:28:37,740 when we talked about Live Aid, and said, 1309 01:28:37,740 --> 01:28:41,380 "I told Freddie he's doing it." And I kind of believe him. 1310 01:28:41,380 --> 01:28:44,100 It really is a gathering of the rock world's elite, 1311 01:28:44,100 --> 01:28:48,060 and already rehearsing in here are some of rock and roll's royalty. 1312 01:28:48,060 --> 01:28:53,500 It was rehearsed quite intensely at the Shaw Theatre on Euston Road. 1313 01:28:53,500 --> 01:28:57,180 ♪ Here we stand and here we fall 1314 01:28:57,180 --> 01:29:00,740 ♪ History won't care at all 1315 01:29:00,740 --> 01:29:03,780 ♪ Make the bed, light the light... ♪ 1316 01:29:03,780 --> 01:29:08,180 Queen took the responsibility more professionally than anyone else on the bill. 1317 01:29:08,180 --> 01:29:12,220 ♪ You don't waste no time at all 1318 01:29:12,220 --> 01:29:15,220 ♪ Don't hear the bell but you answer the call... ♪ 1319 01:29:15,220 --> 01:29:18,340 I went out and bought these big plastic white clocks 1320 01:29:18,340 --> 01:29:23,300 and put them in the orchestra pit so we could see the time. 1321 01:29:23,300 --> 01:29:27,620 There was an 18-minute slot that each artist had, 1322 01:29:27,620 --> 01:29:31,060 and there were traffic lights at the side of the stage. 1323 01:29:31,060 --> 01:29:35,620 And you were warned that the traffic lights after 16 minutes would turn amber from green, 1324 01:29:35,620 --> 01:29:39,380 and they said, "You won't see them turn red because the power goes off." 1325 01:29:39,380 --> 01:29:42,260 So you make it quick and you make it something they know. 1326 01:29:43,380 --> 01:29:45,580 Just after 16 hours of live Aid, 1327 01:29:45,580 --> 01:29:47,980 would you welcome Status Quo! 1328 01:30:01,780 --> 01:30:07,180 ♪ Here we are and here we are and here we go... ♪ 1329 01:30:07,180 --> 01:30:09,660 The energy that day was sensational. 1330 01:30:09,660 --> 01:30:12,940 ♪ Rockin' all over the world... ♪ 1331 01:30:12,940 --> 01:30:16,580 We were all quite nervous, actually. 1332 01:30:16,580 --> 01:30:19,380 Not necessarily our audience because they'd put together 1333 01:30:19,380 --> 01:30:23,660 the bill of Live Aid before we'd been announced as being on it. 1334 01:30:23,660 --> 01:30:29,860 They set the level for the PA with limiters 1335 01:30:29,860 --> 01:30:33,540 and then when Queen came on, Trip, who was Queen's sound engineer, 1336 01:30:33,540 --> 01:30:36,420 switched the limiters so that Queen would be louder. 1337 01:30:43,620 --> 01:30:46,740 From the word go, he came out of the traps like a champion. 1338 01:30:52,820 --> 01:30:57,980 Freddie performed against the advice of his doctor because of a throat condition. 1339 01:30:57,980 --> 01:31:03,740 But he went out there and gave one of the greatest live television performances ever. 1340 01:31:03,740 --> 01:31:06,940 ♪ You don't waste no time at all 1341 01:31:06,940 --> 01:31:10,740 ♪ Don't hear the bell but you answer the call 1342 01:31:10,740 --> 01:31:14,420 ♪ Comes to you as to us all, yeah! 1343 01:31:14,420 --> 01:31:17,500 ♪ And it's time for the hammer to fall... ♪ 1344 01:31:18,660 --> 01:31:24,300 The ballet with a BBC cameraman was shockingly charismatic. 1345 01:31:24,300 --> 01:31:28,500 ♪ Every night, every day 1346 01:31:28,500 --> 01:31:31,020 ♪ A little piece of you is falling away 1347 01:31:31,020 --> 01:31:34,180 ♪ Lift your face the western way... ♪ 1348 01:31:38,020 --> 01:31:42,540 And it was as if all the artists backstage had heard a dog whistle. 1349 01:31:44,180 --> 01:31:46,980 And their heads turned and the frisson you felt was, 1350 01:31:46,980 --> 01:31:49,940 "They're stealing the show." 1351 01:31:56,620 --> 01:31:59,740 ♪ I've paid my dues 1352 01:31:59,740 --> 01:32:04,660 ♪ Time after time 1353 01:32:04,660 --> 01:32:06,460 ♪ I did my sentence 1354 01:32:07,860 --> 01:32:09,940 ♪ But committed no crime 1355 01:32:11,220 --> 01:32:15,420 ♪ And bad mistakes 1356 01:32:15,420 --> 01:32:17,580 ♪ I've made a few 1357 01:32:17,580 --> 01:32:21,900 ♪ I've had my share of sand kicked in my face 1358 01:32:21,900 --> 01:32:25,100 ♪ But I've come through 1359 01:32:28,820 --> 01:32:34,500 ♪ We are the champions, my friend... ♪ 1360 01:32:34,500 --> 01:32:40,300 I defy anybody who saw it not to have goose pimples on the back of their neck 1361 01:32:40,300 --> 01:32:43,060 when you saw that sea of people. 1362 01:32:43,060 --> 01:32:45,860 ♪ We are the champions 1363 01:32:45,860 --> 01:32:48,660 ♪ We are the champions... ♪ 1364 01:32:48,660 --> 01:32:54,700 I remember looking up and seeing the whole place going completely bonkers in unison and thinking, 1365 01:32:54,700 --> 01:32:56,420 "Oh, this is going well." 1366 01:32:56,420 --> 01:32:59,020 ♪ ..the champions 1367 01:32:59,020 --> 01:33:04,860 ♪ We are the champions, my friend 1368 01:33:06,180 --> 01:33:10,580 ♪ And we'll keep on fighting till the end... ♪ 1369 01:33:10,580 --> 01:33:13,860 We did have an unfair advantage. We had done football stadiums. 1370 01:33:13,860 --> 01:33:18,020 Freddie particularly learned this magical way 1371 01:33:18,020 --> 01:33:20,900 of involving everybody. In a huge football stadium, 1372 01:33:20,900 --> 01:33:23,500 he could make everybody feel they were in contact. 1373 01:33:23,500 --> 01:33:29,180 ♪ We are the champions... 1374 01:33:33,460 --> 01:33:38,180 ♪ ..of the world. ♪ 1375 01:33:42,780 --> 01:33:45,140 People say, "Was it a career move?" 1376 01:33:45,140 --> 01:33:46,820 Well, no, it wasn't a career move 1377 01:33:46,820 --> 01:33:49,780 but of course that's in the back of everybody's mind. 1378 01:33:58,740 --> 01:34:02,420 We got a great reception from the crowd, even at Wembley, 1379 01:34:02,420 --> 01:34:05,340 and also from the TV audience as well. 1380 01:34:05,340 --> 01:34:09,660 So in fact, it was a great boost of confidence, in a way, for the group. 1381 01:34:09,660 --> 01:34:12,140 To have conquered Live Aid in that way 1382 01:34:12,140 --> 01:34:15,700 undoubtedly breathed fresh energy into the band. 1383 01:34:21,060 --> 01:34:23,700 It was a shot in the arm and we went back in the studio. 1384 01:34:31,300 --> 01:34:35,180 We were back in Munich with all its attendant dangers, 1385 01:34:35,180 --> 01:34:39,140 so we tried to keep ourselves in the studio as much as possible. 1386 01:34:42,140 --> 01:34:43,620 Ta-dah! 1387 01:34:47,380 --> 01:34:51,260 ♪ Hey! One man, one goal 1388 01:34:54,140 --> 01:34:57,420 ♪ One mission, one heart... ♪ 1389 01:34:57,420 --> 01:35:04,740 I had a page, a sort of poem that was sort of half nicked off Martin Luther King's famous speech. 1390 01:35:04,740 --> 01:35:07,780 It doesn't fit. It does. 1391 01:35:07,780 --> 01:35:12,020 One goddamn decision. Real decision. 1392 01:35:12,020 --> 01:35:13,940 No, it won't fit. 1393 01:35:13,940 --> 01:35:15,660 It was all one this and one that. 1394 01:35:15,660 --> 01:35:19,100 ♪ One God, one soul, make one decision... ♪ 1395 01:35:20,860 --> 01:35:25,660 Make one decision. One true religion. 1396 01:35:26,780 --> 01:35:28,380 ♪ One God, one vision 1397 01:35:28,380 --> 01:35:32,020 ♪ One man, one goal, one true religion 1398 01:35:32,020 --> 01:35:37,260 ♪ One dump, one turd Two tits, John Deacon 1399 01:35:37,260 --> 01:35:39,660 ♪ Woh-oh-oh-oh-oh 1400 01:35:39,660 --> 01:35:42,340 ♪ Give me one vision... ♪ 1401 01:35:42,340 --> 01:35:45,700 The Magic Tour was the biggest tour we'd ever undertaken. 1402 01:35:45,700 --> 01:35:48,340 ♪ No wrong, no right 1403 01:35:48,340 --> 01:35:51,460 ♪ I'm gonna tell you there's no black and no white... ♪ 1404 01:35:51,460 --> 01:35:53,940 We planned an entire tour of stadium gigs. 1405 01:35:55,980 --> 01:35:58,980 ♪ All we need is one world, one vision... ♪ 1406 01:36:01,020 --> 01:36:06,660 Massive shows all over Europe, and really fantastic reception. We hit another level. 1407 01:36:10,900 --> 01:36:14,460 We were finally in the place we'd always dreamed of being, perhaps. 1408 01:36:14,460 --> 01:36:18,940 ♪ I had a dream when I was young 1409 01:36:18,940 --> 01:36:21,740 ♪ A dream, sweet illusion... ♪ 1410 01:36:21,740 --> 01:36:26,540 That tour had gigs like Budapest in it, which in itself is a great thing. 1411 01:36:26,540 --> 01:36:30,820 Budapest was the first stadium concert behind the Iron Curtain. 1412 01:36:32,140 --> 01:36:35,100 People hitch-hiked from all over Eastern Europe. 1413 01:36:35,100 --> 01:36:39,060 ♪ Look what they've done to my dream... ♪ 1414 01:36:39,060 --> 01:36:42,820 It was a great tour because it ended up two nights at Wembley. 1415 01:36:44,140 --> 01:36:46,900 Hello there, my beauties. This is happening. 1416 01:36:48,100 --> 01:36:52,860 ♪ Give me your hands Give me your hearts... ♪ 1417 01:36:52,860 --> 01:36:55,500 In addition to Wembley Stadium, we put on an extra one 1418 01:36:55,500 --> 01:36:59,300 because it sold out so quick, the two nights, so we put Knebworth on. 1419 01:36:59,300 --> 01:37:03,020 ♪ One voice, one hope One real decision 1420 01:37:03,020 --> 01:37:06,820 ♪ Gimme one light One light Gimme one hope One hope 1421 01:37:06,820 --> 01:37:09,900 ♪ Just gimme, ah One man, one man 1422 01:37:09,900 --> 01:37:11,940 ♪ One bar one night One day hey hey 1423 01:37:11,940 --> 01:37:14,340 Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme fried chicken. # 1424 01:37:14,340 --> 01:37:16,460 They were the final shows with Freddie, 1425 01:37:16,460 --> 01:37:19,140 and I remember it being pretty much perfect. 1426 01:37:19,140 --> 01:37:24,220 MUSIC: "God Save The Queen" 1427 01:37:35,340 --> 01:37:39,180 I just got the vibe from Freddie, 1428 01:37:39,180 --> 01:37:43,620 he felt that he wasn't maybe able to do any more. 1429 01:37:46,420 --> 01:37:50,660 I know there'll be a time when I can't run around on stage 1430 01:37:50,660 --> 01:37:54,460 because it'll be ridiculous. There comes a time when you have to stop. 1431 01:37:59,740 --> 01:38:03,060 I think he had an idea that he might not be terribly well. 1432 01:38:07,220 --> 01:38:10,140 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 1433 01:38:18,260 --> 01:38:22,420 Freddie told me that he was HIV positive before he told the band. 1434 01:38:22,420 --> 01:38:24,820 This put me in a very difficult position 1435 01:38:24,820 --> 01:38:28,340 because he told me he didn't want me to tell the band. 1436 01:38:28,340 --> 01:38:31,940 So there was I, managing a band, knowing something 1437 01:38:31,940 --> 01:38:36,260 of crucial importance to the band which I couldn't pass on to them. 1438 01:38:36,260 --> 01:38:41,660 ♪ Every drop of rain that falls in Sahara desert says it all 1439 01:38:41,660 --> 01:38:43,460 ♪ It's a miracle 1440 01:38:43,460 --> 01:38:46,420 ♪ All God's creations Great and small 1441 01:38:46,420 --> 01:38:49,060 ♪ The Golden Gate and the Taj Mahal 1442 01:38:49,060 --> 01:38:51,100 ♪ That's a miracle 1443 01:38:51,100 --> 01:38:54,260 ♪ Test-tube babies being born 1444 01:38:54,260 --> 01:38:56,780 ♪ Mothers, fathers, dead and gone 1445 01:38:56,780 --> 01:38:59,580 ♪ It's a miracle... ♪ 1446 01:38:59,580 --> 01:39:02,180 There were rumours and he was obviously suffering, 1447 01:39:02,180 --> 01:39:05,300 and we didn't know what it was, and rumour, rumour, rumour... 1448 01:39:05,300 --> 01:39:07,860 And so he did sit us down at one point and said, 1449 01:39:07,860 --> 01:39:10,260 "Look, you probably know what I'm going to say. 1450 01:39:10,260 --> 01:39:13,300 "You know what I'm suffering from. You know what the problem is 1451 01:39:13,300 --> 01:39:16,340 but I don't want to talk about it anymore. I just want to make music 1452 01:39:16,340 --> 01:39:20,180 until the day I fucking die. And...let's get on with it. 1453 01:39:20,180 --> 01:39:22,980 ♪ It's a miracle 1454 01:39:22,980 --> 01:39:25,260 ♪ It's a miracle... ♪ 1455 01:39:25,260 --> 01:39:27,660 These are some of our best studio times. 1456 01:39:27,660 --> 01:39:31,060 We've made the decision that all the songs we write will be credited 1457 01:39:31,060 --> 01:39:35,340 to all of us, so it kind of releases a bit of... 1458 01:39:35,340 --> 01:39:36,780 positive energy in us. 1459 01:39:36,780 --> 01:39:39,380 They became closer and closer, without any doubt. 1460 01:39:39,380 --> 01:39:42,220 The sharing of writing credits was a major breakthrough. 1461 01:39:42,220 --> 01:39:45,020 Some magical things happened, I think. 1462 01:39:45,020 --> 01:39:48,660 There's this track called The Miracle, itself, 1463 01:39:48,660 --> 01:39:51,700 which I think is one of Freddie's most beautiful creations. 1464 01:39:51,700 --> 01:39:54,380 ♪ The one thing The one thing 1465 01:39:54,380 --> 01:39:56,380 ♪ We're all waiting for 1466 01:39:56,380 --> 01:39:58,740 ♪ Is peace on earth Peace on earth 1467 01:39:58,740 --> 01:40:01,380 ♪ And an end to war An end to war... ♪ 1468 01:40:01,380 --> 01:40:05,540 'I love the track. It's all so optimistic about the world' 1469 01:40:05,540 --> 01:40:08,620 and the miracles that are being found in the world. 1470 01:40:13,060 --> 01:40:15,980 Which is incredible when you think what he's looking at 1471 01:40:15,980 --> 01:40:19,460 because he knows what he's got and he knows what the prognosis is. 1472 01:40:19,460 --> 01:40:24,100 ♪ That time will come One day you'll see 1473 01:40:24,100 --> 01:40:29,980 ♪ When we can all be friends 1474 01:40:29,980 --> 01:40:34,580 ♪ That time will come One day you'll see 1475 01:40:34,580 --> 01:40:37,180 ♪ When we can all... ♪ 1476 01:40:37,180 --> 01:40:41,460 APPLAUSE Special Award for an outstanding contribution to British music 1477 01:40:41,460 --> 01:40:45,340 goes to John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, 1478 01:40:45,340 --> 01:40:47,900 Roger Taylor - Queen. 1479 01:40:47,900 --> 01:40:50,020 APPLAUSE 1480 01:40:53,020 --> 01:40:55,460 The first indications something wasn't right 1481 01:40:55,460 --> 01:40:58,300 was Freddie looked a little thinner to me. 1482 01:40:59,260 --> 01:41:01,580 And I called John up to see what was going on. 1483 01:41:01,580 --> 01:41:05,140 I said, "Is something wrong with Freddie?" And he wouldn't tell me. 1484 01:41:08,540 --> 01:41:11,380 The thing that annoyed me more than anything was a shot 1485 01:41:11,380 --> 01:41:15,260 of Freddie in The Sun and he'd just come out of the doctor's, I think. 1486 01:41:15,260 --> 01:41:19,540 It's a really grainy, full-page shot. "Is this man dying?" 1487 01:41:19,540 --> 01:41:22,740 And I thought, "You fucking wankers." 1488 01:41:22,740 --> 01:41:24,380 ♪ Scandal 1489 01:41:27,060 --> 01:41:28,700 ♪ Scandal... ♪ 1490 01:41:32,580 --> 01:41:36,460 We hid everything and we avoided questions. 1491 01:41:36,460 --> 01:41:37,820 ♪ Scandal... ♪ 1492 01:41:37,820 --> 01:41:39,620 I guess we lied. 1493 01:41:39,620 --> 01:41:41,380 Because we wanted to protect him. 1494 01:41:41,380 --> 01:41:42,420 ♪ Scandal... ♪ 1495 01:41:43,660 --> 01:41:46,660 I would then say anything to anybody. "Is Fred sick?" 1496 01:41:46,660 --> 01:41:49,140 "Absolutely not, no. He was in the gym yesterday. 1497 01:41:49,140 --> 01:41:51,540 "Fuck you," you know. "None of your business." 1498 01:41:51,540 --> 01:41:54,780 Everybody had to draw the wagons around him. 1499 01:41:54,780 --> 01:41:58,740 Because at that time, to become ill was to have a death sentence. 1500 01:41:58,740 --> 01:42:03,940 ♪ Today the headlines Tomorrow hard times 1501 01:42:03,940 --> 01:42:08,500 ♪ And no-one ever really knows The truth from the lies... ♪ 1502 01:42:08,500 --> 01:42:10,060 His house was surrounded by... 1503 01:42:10,060 --> 01:42:12,860 I don't know, a couple of hundred, I reckon. 1504 01:42:12,860 --> 01:42:15,100 Just like vultures, really. 1505 01:42:15,100 --> 01:42:20,540 ♪ Deeper and deeper inside... ♪ 1506 01:42:21,580 --> 01:42:23,340 It was utterly shocking, you know. 1507 01:42:23,340 --> 01:42:25,980 Filming the groceries in the back of the car boot. 1508 01:42:25,980 --> 01:42:27,060 ♪ Scandal... ♪ 1509 01:42:27,060 --> 01:42:30,780 "Any medicine in there?" You know, it's absolutely shocking. 1510 01:42:31,740 --> 01:42:33,740 It became difficult to work in London, 1511 01:42:33,740 --> 01:42:36,420 there was such a terrible focus of attention on him. 1512 01:42:36,420 --> 01:42:38,860 People sticking cameras through his toilet windows, 1513 01:42:38,860 --> 01:42:40,700 as soon as the rumours were out there. 1514 01:42:40,700 --> 01:42:45,620 So Montreal was a much more peaceful place to work so we ended up doing a lot of stuff there. 1515 01:42:45,620 --> 01:42:47,740 SONG: "I'm Going Slightly Mad" 1516 01:42:53,940 --> 01:42:57,460 Freddie felt much safer there because people didn't bother. 1517 01:42:57,460 --> 01:43:00,540 You know. They weren't intrusively observing him. 1518 01:43:04,700 --> 01:43:06,900 At that point we can't play live 1519 01:43:06,900 --> 01:43:10,100 but in the things that we're doing, it's business as usual. 1520 01:43:10,100 --> 01:43:14,460 ♪ I'm going slightly mad 1521 01:43:14,460 --> 01:43:18,740 ♪ I'm going slightly mad... ♪ 1522 01:43:18,740 --> 01:43:21,420 He was determined to work right up to the last minute. 1523 01:43:21,420 --> 01:43:24,740 I was surprised that he did Going Slightly Mad. 1524 01:43:24,740 --> 01:43:26,220 ♪ It finally happened... ♪ 1525 01:43:26,220 --> 01:43:28,540 Which I thought was a good video, actually, 1526 01:43:28,540 --> 01:43:31,380 and it had lots of humour in it. 1527 01:43:31,380 --> 01:43:35,540 ♪ I'm slightly mad! ♪ 1528 01:43:38,180 --> 01:43:40,700 There was a lot more humour in Freddie than I think 1529 01:43:40,700 --> 01:43:42,220 the general public realised. 1530 01:43:43,260 --> 01:43:45,660 You want to take it? No, I... 1531 01:43:46,820 --> 01:43:49,140 Oh! What's it doing? 1532 01:43:49,140 --> 01:43:52,380 HOOTS OF LAUGHTER 1533 01:43:52,380 --> 01:43:53,940 Roger, what did you do? 1534 01:43:53,940 --> 01:43:56,780 It was just really a very close time. 1535 01:43:56,780 --> 01:43:58,380 Go for me. Waaa! 1536 01:43:59,820 --> 01:44:03,740 Freddie found an amazing tranquillity and I never really heard him complain. 1537 01:44:03,740 --> 01:44:06,420 I remember we went out one night 1538 01:44:06,420 --> 01:44:09,180 and he had horrible problems with his leg. 1539 01:44:09,180 --> 01:44:13,500 And Freddie saw me looking at it and said, "Oh, Brian, do you want to see what it's like?" 1540 01:44:13,500 --> 01:44:15,980 And he showed me, and I think... 1541 01:44:15,980 --> 01:44:17,860 he reacted to my face, and he said, 1542 01:44:17,860 --> 01:44:20,820 "I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to do that to you." 1543 01:44:20,820 --> 01:44:25,180 I never heard him go, "This is really awful. My life is shit. 1544 01:44:25,180 --> 01:44:27,340 "I'm going to die." Never, never, never. 1545 01:44:27,340 --> 01:44:30,020 He was an amazingly strong person. 1546 01:44:30,020 --> 01:44:34,980 The sicker Freddie got, the more he seemed to need to record, 1547 01:44:34,980 --> 01:44:39,300 to give himself something to do, you know - some sort of reason to get up. 1548 01:44:44,780 --> 01:44:47,460 And he would make it in whenever he could. 1549 01:44:47,460 --> 01:44:51,100 So really, it was a period of fairly intense work, actually. 1550 01:44:56,020 --> 01:44:59,740 Freddie is becoming weakened by this horrible disease 1551 01:44:59,740 --> 01:45:02,380 and he finds it hard to stand up a lot of the time 1552 01:45:02,380 --> 01:45:05,540 but he'll throw a couple of vodkas down and prop himself up 1553 01:45:05,540 --> 01:45:09,140 on the mixing desk and have his mike there, and go for it. 1554 01:45:09,140 --> 01:45:10,860 Roll camera, roll playback. 1555 01:45:14,340 --> 01:45:16,780 ♪ Sometimes I get to feeling 1556 01:45:16,780 --> 01:45:19,660 ♪ I was back in the old days 1557 01:45:19,660 --> 01:45:21,220 ♪ Long ago... ♪ 1558 01:45:22,860 --> 01:45:26,140 'I can hear the voice is getting thinner.' 1559 01:45:26,140 --> 01:45:29,380 ♪ Things seemed so perfect You know... ♪ 1560 01:45:29,380 --> 01:45:33,740 'I think you can really tell that it's an ailing voice.' 1561 01:45:33,740 --> 01:45:36,060 Although he hits the notes. 1562 01:45:36,060 --> 01:45:38,220 ♪ The sun was always shining 1563 01:45:38,220 --> 01:45:39,740 ♪ We just lived for fun 1564 01:45:39,740 --> 01:45:41,540 ♪ Sometimes... ♪ 1565 01:45:41,540 --> 01:45:44,820 'Roger started writing These Are The Days Of Our Lives about his kids' 1566 01:45:44,820 --> 01:45:47,820 and the way he felt about life and how it comes back. 1567 01:45:47,820 --> 01:45:52,700 But of course, in that context, it had another meaning. 1568 01:45:52,700 --> 01:45:59,260 ♪ Those were the days of our lives... ♪ 1569 01:45:59,260 --> 01:46:01,540 'He looked so ill there. It was quite scary,' 1570 01:46:01,540 --> 01:46:03,980 and...I thought that was a very brave thing to do. 1571 01:46:03,980 --> 01:46:05,140 And why not, you know? 1572 01:46:05,140 --> 01:46:08,820 'He spent hours and hours and hours in make-up, sorting himself out, 1573 01:46:08,820 --> 01:46:09,980 'so it would be OK.' 1574 01:46:09,980 --> 01:46:14,060 ♪ Those days are all gone now but 1575 01:46:14,060 --> 01:46:15,820 ♪ One thing is true... ♪ 1576 01:46:15,820 --> 01:46:18,540 I did too many movements. 1577 01:46:18,540 --> 01:46:21,380 But I just wanted to see... No, I know... 1578 01:46:22,420 --> 01:46:24,780 ♪ I still love you... ♪ 1579 01:46:24,780 --> 01:46:27,100 I just want to see... It doesn't look... 1580 01:46:28,340 --> 01:46:29,580 It doesn't look... 1581 01:46:29,580 --> 01:46:31,540 I think it should be waisted. 1582 01:46:32,620 --> 01:46:35,820 Do you know what I mean? I want a little bit of shape here. A tiny bit. 1583 01:46:35,820 --> 01:46:37,900 'Yeah. I like the shape now.' 1584 01:46:37,900 --> 01:46:42,660 ♪ Those days are all gone now, but 1585 01:46:42,660 --> 01:46:46,700 ♪ One thing's still true 1586 01:46:46,700 --> 01:46:47,860 ♪ When I look... ♪ 1587 01:46:47,860 --> 01:46:50,940 'Freddie actually kind of says a goodbye in that song.' 1588 01:46:50,940 --> 01:46:53,540 ♪ I still love you... ♪ 1589 01:47:00,220 --> 01:47:03,060 I still love you. 1590 01:47:09,780 --> 01:47:12,900 Innuendo was out on the streets, it was number one 1591 01:47:12,900 --> 01:47:15,780 and two weeks later they were here in Montreux. 1592 01:47:15,780 --> 01:47:18,900 And they started doing more music. 1593 01:47:18,900 --> 01:47:23,380 And Freddie, at that time, said, "Write me stuff. I know I don't have very long. 1594 01:47:24,780 --> 01:47:27,180 "Keep writing me words. Keep giving me things. 1595 01:47:27,180 --> 01:47:30,260 "I will sing and then you can do what you like with it afterwards, 1596 01:47:30,260 --> 01:47:31,820 "you know, finish it off." 1597 01:47:31,820 --> 01:47:35,780 And so I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of Mother Love. 1598 01:47:35,780 --> 01:47:39,300 He was dying and he did those things 1599 01:47:39,300 --> 01:47:43,100 and he knew he would be dead when they were finished. 1600 01:47:43,100 --> 01:47:46,460 Because he said to me, "I'm going to sing it now, 1601 01:47:46,460 --> 01:47:50,420 "because I can't wait for them to do the music on this. 1602 01:47:50,420 --> 01:47:52,660 "I'll give it to you on a drum machine. 1603 01:47:52,660 --> 01:47:56,340 "Give me a drum machine thing... They'll finish it off." 1604 01:47:57,340 --> 01:48:01,540 ♪ I don't want to make no waves 1605 01:48:01,540 --> 01:48:04,940 ♪ You can give me all the love... ♪ 1606 01:48:04,940 --> 01:48:08,100 Every time I gave him another line, he would sing it, 1607 01:48:08,100 --> 01:48:10,060 sing it again, and sing it again. 1608 01:48:10,060 --> 01:48:12,580 So we had three takes for every line, and that was it. 1609 01:48:12,580 --> 01:48:16,780 ♪ I long for peace before I die... ♪ 1610 01:48:17,940 --> 01:48:21,700 Mother Love, I think, was the last one. There's an exceptional 1611 01:48:21,700 --> 01:48:24,140 spine-chilling note in the middle. 1612 01:48:25,820 --> 01:48:27,580 A fantastic bit of singing. 1613 01:48:27,580 --> 01:48:30,100 ♪ Out in the city 1614 01:48:30,100 --> 01:48:33,220 ♪ In the cold world outside 1615 01:48:33,220 --> 01:48:35,220 ♪ I don't want pity 1616 01:48:35,220 --> 01:48:39,100 ♪ Just a safe place to hide 1617 01:48:39,100 --> 01:48:43,540 ♪ Mama, please, let me back inside... ♪ 1618 01:48:44,500 --> 01:48:48,020 It's absolutely...spine-chilling. 1619 01:48:48,020 --> 01:48:50,820 And we got to the last verse and he said, 1620 01:48:50,820 --> 01:48:53,620 "Oh, I'm not up to this now, I need to go away and have a rest. 1621 01:48:53,620 --> 01:48:55,740 "I'll come back and finish it off", you know. 1622 01:48:55,740 --> 01:48:58,020 And he never came back. 1623 01:48:58,020 --> 01:49:02,140 That was the last moment that I had with him in the studio. 1624 01:49:04,260 --> 01:49:09,020 I went to see Freddie, and it was in fact the last time I saw him. 1625 01:49:09,020 --> 01:49:12,020 He said to me, "I haven't given you anything in my will. 1626 01:49:12,020 --> 01:49:15,860 "You're my executor, you can do anything with my legacy, 1627 01:49:15,860 --> 01:49:18,500 "you can do anything with my music 1628 01:49:18,500 --> 01:49:20,620 "but never make me boring." 1629 01:49:20,620 --> 01:49:23,820 The last time I saw Freddie was, Anita and I went to see him 1630 01:49:23,820 --> 01:49:25,020 and he was in bed, 1631 01:49:25,020 --> 01:49:29,740 with the curtains open so he could see out into his garden, 1632 01:49:29,740 --> 01:49:31,940 and I was talking about things in his garden, 1633 01:49:31,940 --> 01:49:34,500 saying, "That's really interesting" and he said, 1634 01:49:34,500 --> 01:49:38,020 "Guys, you don't need to feel like you need to make conversation. 1635 01:49:38,020 --> 01:49:40,260 "I'm just so happy that you're here, 1636 01:49:40,260 --> 01:49:43,140 "so even if we say nothing, it's just having these moments." 1637 01:49:47,020 --> 01:49:50,180 The worst thing was I was actually on my way to see him, 1638 01:49:50,180 --> 01:49:54,020 and I was about 300 yards away when Peter Freestone rang me 1639 01:49:54,020 --> 01:49:56,500 to tell me, "Don't bother coming cos he's gone." 1640 01:50:08,660 --> 01:50:11,220 It was me who wrote the little epitaph 1641 01:50:11,220 --> 01:50:13,500 that's on his statue in Montreux 1642 01:50:13,500 --> 01:50:17,820 which just says, "Freddie Mercury, Lover of Life - Singer of Songs." 1643 01:50:20,420 --> 01:50:24,100 To me, that sums him up because he lived life to the full, 1644 01:50:24,100 --> 01:50:27,140 there's no question, with all that that entailed. 1645 01:50:28,500 --> 01:50:33,500 He was a generous man, a kind man, an impatient man sometimes, 1646 01:50:33,500 --> 01:50:36,820 but utterly dedicated to what he felt was important, 1647 01:50:36,820 --> 01:50:38,620 which was making music. 1648 01:50:50,740 --> 01:50:55,860 We made the announcement that we were going to do a tribute concert to him when we felt that we could, 1649 01:50:55,860 --> 01:50:58,860 to send him out in the style which he deserved. 1650 01:50:58,860 --> 01:51:01,460 We hope that a lot of you will be able to join us 1651 01:51:01,460 --> 01:51:03,660 on April 20th at Wembley Stadium 1652 01:51:03,660 --> 01:51:07,020 for a celebration of Freddie's life and career. 1653 01:51:07,020 --> 01:51:09,260 You're all welcome. Please join us. 1654 01:51:09,260 --> 01:51:10,620 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 1655 01:51:10,620 --> 01:51:15,260 So we drew up a list of people that we'd like to be on the show. 1656 01:51:15,260 --> 01:51:16,740 Roger got the ball rolling. 1657 01:51:16,740 --> 01:51:20,740 Roger got up one morning and said, "Look, we're doing this." And made a few phone calls. 1658 01:51:20,740 --> 01:51:24,740 And Brian said, "Well, if you can get that lot, I'll come." 1659 01:51:24,740 --> 01:51:27,380 On stage, Mr Roger Daltrey! 1660 01:51:30,500 --> 01:51:33,020 Mr Robert Plant, thank you! 1661 01:51:35,140 --> 01:51:36,620 Mr David Bowie! 1662 01:51:38,020 --> 01:51:39,140 And... 1663 01:51:39,140 --> 01:51:47,180 ♪ Any way the wind blo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ows! ♪ 1664 01:51:48,380 --> 01:51:52,540 We got a date, Wembley Stadium... Had to be Wembley Stadium, didn't it? Had to be. 1665 01:51:52,540 --> 01:51:55,140 The scene of Freddie's greatest triumphs. 1666 01:52:01,140 --> 01:52:03,140 A lot of amazing things happened. 1667 01:52:03,140 --> 01:52:07,020 I'd like to offer something, in a very simple fashion. 1668 01:52:08,260 --> 01:52:13,140 David Bowie spontaneously went into the Lord's Prayer which was a surprise to us all. 1669 01:52:13,140 --> 01:52:15,460 For thine is the kingdom, 1670 01:52:15,460 --> 01:52:16,660 the power 1671 01:52:16,660 --> 01:52:17,820 and the glory 1672 01:52:17,820 --> 01:52:20,060 for ever and ever, 1673 01:52:20,060 --> 01:52:22,260 A-men. 1674 01:52:22,260 --> 01:52:25,020 APPLAUSE 1675 01:52:25,020 --> 01:52:26,500 God bless Queen. 1676 01:52:28,140 --> 01:52:29,860 God bless you. 1677 01:52:29,860 --> 01:52:31,300 Thank you, good night. 1678 01:52:33,860 --> 01:52:37,020 I want to hear every single person. 1679 01:52:37,020 --> 01:52:38,820 See every single pair of hands. 1680 01:52:38,820 --> 01:52:41,180 Three, four. 1681 01:52:41,180 --> 01:52:44,260 ♪ Find me somebody to love 1682 01:52:44,260 --> 01:52:47,500 ♪ Find me somebody to love 1683 01:52:47,500 --> 01:52:50,620 ♪ Find me somebody to love 1684 01:52:50,620 --> 01:52:53,860 ♪ Find me somebody to love 1685 01:52:53,860 --> 01:52:55,620 ♪ Somebody! Somebody! 1686 01:52:55,620 --> 01:52:58,740 ♪ Somebody! Somebody! Somebody! Somebody! 1687 01:52:58,740 --> 01:53:02,020 ♪ Somebody find me somebody to love 1688 01:53:02,020 --> 01:53:08,500 ♪ Anybody find me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e... 1689 01:53:11,380 --> 01:53:17,020 ♪ Somebody to-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o... ♪ 1690 01:53:17,020 --> 01:53:18,260 Come on! 1691 01:53:18,260 --> 01:53:20,140 AUDIENCE: ♪ Lo-o-o-o-ve. ♪ 1692 01:53:20,140 --> 01:53:22,020 'It was completely cathartic.' 1693 01:53:22,020 --> 01:53:24,380 It was like working out a bit of grief in a way. 1694 01:53:24,380 --> 01:53:25,660 Yeah! 1695 01:53:26,620 --> 01:53:32,380 ♪ Somebody find me somebody to-oo-oo love 1696 01:53:33,540 --> 01:53:37,260 ♪ Find me somebody to-oo-oo love Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh! 1697 01:53:37,260 --> 01:53:43,060 ♪ Find me is somebody, somebody 1698 01:53:43,060 --> 01:53:45,620 ♪ To-oo-oo love 1699 01:53:45,620 --> 01:53:50,500 ♪ Anybody anywhere find me somebody to love 1700 01:53:50,500 --> 01:53:53,020 ♪ Yeah, yeah 1701 01:53:53,020 --> 01:53:59,380 ♪ O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oh 1702 01:53:59,380 --> 01:54:04,260 ♪ O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oh. ♪ 1703 01:54:04,260 --> 01:54:08,340 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 1704 01:54:12,620 --> 01:54:14,660 And I remember just as we were coming off, 1705 01:54:14,660 --> 01:54:17,540 Joe Elliott from Def Leopard put his hand on my arm 1706 01:54:17,540 --> 01:54:18,820 and said, "Stop, Brian, 1707 01:54:18,820 --> 01:54:22,500 "just turn around and look at that audience and remember this moment. 1708 01:54:25,700 --> 01:54:28,140 "Nothing like this will ever happen again." 1709 01:54:42,580 --> 01:54:46,020 'The incredible thing is, it's 40 years since the band was formed. 1710 01:54:46,020 --> 01:54:50,140 'The band is probably as big as it's ever been.' 1711 01:54:50,140 --> 01:54:53,020 And yet 20 of those 40 years have been without Freddie. 1712 01:54:53,020 --> 01:54:56,980 We don't have John either because he's chosen to be in a very different place. 1713 01:54:56,980 --> 01:54:58,780 For Roger and I... 1714 01:54:58,780 --> 01:55:02,020 there is always that searching. 1715 01:55:03,140 --> 01:55:06,660 ♪ The show must go on! ♪ 1716 01:55:08,740 --> 01:55:13,060 What's lurking in the wings was the material we'd done with Freddie which was unfinished, 1717 01:55:13,060 --> 01:55:15,620 and what were we going to do with this, make an album? 1718 01:55:15,620 --> 01:55:18,540 Made In Heaven was obviously different. 1719 01:55:18,540 --> 01:55:22,980 It was very weird working with Freddie's voice coming out of the speakers 1720 01:55:22,980 --> 01:55:26,740 but Brian and I felt that we knew what Freddie would have been thinking 1721 01:55:26,740 --> 01:55:29,500 so we got there and I was very pleased with the result. 1722 01:55:29,500 --> 01:55:32,220 I feel like it was the right completion. 1723 01:55:32,220 --> 01:55:35,980 It was, um...it was the right album to finish up on. 1724 01:55:40,980 --> 01:55:45,380 Once you've passed your initiation into being a rock star, it never leaves you. 1725 01:55:45,380 --> 01:55:48,980 You cannot stop having that feeling inside you that makes you want to play. 1726 01:55:48,980 --> 01:55:51,380 ♪ The show must go on! ♪ 1727 01:55:51,380 --> 01:55:54,500 When we did the Paul Rodgers tour, it was great, actually. 1728 01:55:54,500 --> 01:55:57,300 Paul was a great singer, completely different. 1729 01:55:57,300 --> 01:56:03,500 ♪ I've never given in On with the show 1730 01:56:03,500 --> 01:56:08,140 ♪ The show must go on. ♪ 1731 01:56:08,140 --> 01:56:11,140 It constantly amazes me to think we were lucky enough 1732 01:56:11,140 --> 01:56:13,940 to be in a great band, to have a great band together, 1733 01:56:13,940 --> 01:56:17,100 and that, actually, people still like the music, you know. 1734 01:56:18,380 --> 01:56:20,900 Queen is such a stimulating creative environment, 1735 01:56:20,900 --> 01:56:24,740 there's really nothing quite that could live up to that. 1736 01:56:27,100 --> 01:56:31,980 There was a perfect creative hothouse that was Queen at its best. 1737 01:56:32,940 --> 01:56:36,380 ♪ One dream, one soul 1738 01:56:36,380 --> 01:56:40,780 ♪ One prize, one goal 1739 01:56:40,780 --> 01:56:46,260 ♪ One golden glance of what should be 1740 01:56:46,260 --> 01:56:47,620 ♪ It's a kind of magic 1741 01:56:47,620 --> 01:56:53,140 ♪ One flash of light that shows the way 1742 01:56:54,380 --> 01:56:58,260 ♪ No mortal man 1743 01:56:58,260 --> 01:57:00,020 ♪ Can win this day 1744 01:57:00,020 --> 01:57:02,140 ♪ It's a kind of magic 1745 01:57:02,140 --> 01:57:05,740 ♪ The bell that rings 1746 01:57:05,740 --> 01:57:07,860 ♪ Inside your mind 1747 01:57:09,140 --> 01:57:11,260 ♪ Is challenging 1748 01:57:11,260 --> 01:57:14,620 ♪ The doors of time 1749 01:57:22,100 --> 01:57:28,980 ♪ This rage that lasts a thousand years 1750 01:57:28,980 --> 01:57:31,500 # Will soon be, will soon be Will soon be... 1751 01:57:31,500 --> 01:57:35,260 ♪ Will soon be done 1752 01:57:36,900 --> 01:57:40,860 ♪ Will soon be done 1753 01:57:40,860 --> 01:57:45,340 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 1754 01:57:45,340 --> 01:57:50,500 ♪ E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-up 1755 01:57:50,500 --> 01:57:56,660 AUDIENCE: # E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-up 1756 01:57:56,660 --> 01:57:58,260 ♪ E-e-up E-e-up 1757 01:57:58,260 --> 01:57:59,420 ♪ E-e-up E-e-up 1758 01:57:59,420 --> 01:58:00,900 ♪ E-e-up E-e-up 1759 01:58:00,900 --> 01:58:02,140 ♪ Ee-do-ree-ro-re-ro 1760 01:58:02,140 --> 01:58:04,180 ♪ Ee-do-ree-ro-re-ro. ♪ 1761 01:58:04,180 --> 01:58:05,580 Fuck you.156806

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