HERE ARE SOME OF WISDOM HE USED TO SPREAD DURING INTERVIEWS





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The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course!"
"I'd like to be carried on stage by six nubile slaves with palms and all."
"I want my privacy, and I feel I've given a lot for it. It's like Greta Garbo, isn't it? Virgo, same star sign."
"Most of the songs I write are all love ballads and things having to do with sadness and torure and pain: at the same time it's frivolous and tongue in cheek. That's basically my whole nature, I guess."
"I have a nervous energy that needs to be doing something. I can't relax in bed all day and just do nothing. I think it's a waste of time."
"I'm a very hated person, but I hate the Press as well. So that goes both ways, but to me I think I've learned to live with it."
"I'm a man of extremes, you know, I sort of change from day to day like a chameleon and each day is different to me and I look forward to that. I don't want to be the same person every day."
"I just feel I'm not a very good partner for anybody and I just think that's what my love is. I think my love is dangerous, who wants their love to be safe? Can you imagine writing a song 'My Love Is Safe'? It would never sell!"
"I do deliver sex appeal. It's part of modern Rock. I sell sex appeal with my body movements on stage."
"Have I got upper class parents who put a lot of money into me? Was I spoilt? No. My parents were very strict. I wasn't the only one, I've got a sister. I was at boarding school for nine years so I didn't see my parents that often. That background helped me a lot because it taught me to fend for myself."
"It's stupid to say there is no such things in boarding schools. All the things they say about them are more or less true. All the bullying and everything else. I've had the odd schoolmaster chasing me. It didn't shock me because somehow boarding schools.. you're not confronted by it, you are just slowly aware of it. Its going through the life."
"I'm a man of extremes. I have a soft side and a hard side with not a lot between. If the right person finds me I can be very vulnerable, a real baby, which is invariably when I get trodden on. But sometimes I'm hard, and when I'm strong no-one can get to me."
"I've got a few good friends, a big house and I can go wherever I want whenever I want... but the more money you make the more miserable you get. It just so happens that I have a lot of money."
" I never carry money on me, like the real Queen, if I see something in a shop I ask a member of the crew to buy it for me and and I give the money back of course"
"Singing upside down is wonderful. I was shivering in the wings with nerves. It's always much harder when you are put outside your sphere, but I always like a challenge. I'd like to see Mick Jagger or Rod Stewart try something like that."
His most vivid memory of the evening? Having his bottom pinched by ballerina Merle Park, of course! "She's outrageous, that woman!"
'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' were both choreographed and Freddie also added live vocals. It wasn't the first time Queen's material had been 'classiced up': in 1977 the London Symphony Orchestra had released their own classical version of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' as a single, and for inclusion on a 'Rock Classics' album.
The Ballet version was unusual and Freddie danced very well, thus receiving a standing ovation on 7th October. However, an ever-faithful Roger Taylor, who managed to sit through the whole experience, thought it was dreadful!
"They had me practising at the barr and all that, stretching my legs... trying to do things in a week that they'd been doing for years. It was murder. After two days I was in agony. It was hurting me in places I didn't know I had, dear. Then, when the night of the gala came, I was just amazed at the backstage scenes. When I had my entrances to do I had to fight my way through Merle Park and Anthony Dowell and all these people, and say, 'Excuse me, I'm going on now.' It was outrageous."
What about his big moment, when he danced his scene while singing 'Bohemian Rhapsody'? "Yes, dear, I did this leap. A wonderful leap which brought the house down and then they all caught me and I just carried on singing!