Freddie Mercury and Remembering
Woman in the Middle | September 28, 2012Last night Hubby, Eldest Daughter and I (Youngest Daughter is at school or she would have gone) went to see ”Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live in Budapest.” It was filmed in 1986 when going to Budapest meant going behind the Iron Curtain. That wasn’t the only nostalgic thing that struck Hubby and I as we watched the film. Remember when men wore short shorts? Or track suits were in? Or guitars were plugged in to speakers with cords?
Hubby and I have gone to a lot of concerts in our day. As a matter of fact, we are going to see Three Dog Night tonight! But for some reason we never saw Queen. So this was my first opportunity to see Freddie strut his stuff on stage. And strut he did! Only some singers can really handle singing in front of tens of thousands of people and Freddie was one of them. Every gesture, every step, was designed to be seen in the back row. But, with this movie you aren’t in the back row, you are right on the stage where you see just what a work out playing and singing in a rock concert can be, based on the amount of sweat pouring off of Freddie!
Freddie Mercury had a VOICE, an amazing, strong, powerful, unique voice. I felt a bit of melancholy as I watched that voice on display because it was silenced in 1991 by AIDS. AIDS has become, at least in this country, a chronic disease. But back then it was still oh so deadly.
So if you like Queen go see the film. Enjoy Freddie and his band mates. We can miss Freddie and mourn his loss. But we can be grateful for how far we have come.
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