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Date Posted:Saturday, January 07, 09:11:51pm Author: Lij Author Host/IP: adsl-99-186-239-52.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net / 99.186.239.52 Subject: Beatles.... In reply to:
AurraSing
's message, "Mash up Over Me" on Saturday, January 07, 01:55:07pm
I'm a Rolling Stones person. I prefer rock over pop, and The Beatles weren't rock 'n roll.
As for the vid, it's funny because Freddie was mentioned in a conversation I had with one of my Iranian friends yesterday evening(not the first time, but the first time we talked about Mary Austin who was Freddie's great love), and here he is again. Freddie is haunting us. He was one of a kind.
Freddie was and is, very much larger than life. He seemed to put his heart and soul into his vocals, something that has helped Queen live on the way it has.
after she left him (I think they leave together a few years until success arrived and Freddie started partying and cheating on her with men), she inherited all his fortune (well most of it, his family had some money, but nothing compared to what Mary got)from him and she is the only one to know where his ashes are. He was quite the romantic!
Of course some fans hate her as if she's some kind of Yoko Ono (not breaking the band but breaking the gay icon), while others say it's the most beautiful love story ever!
He called her his "common wife" and adored her to the end, saying , when interviewed about his love life, that nobody would ever take her place (his last partners had to live with it, poor guys). I bet it wasn't easy for Mary to have a "normal private life" while Freddie was still around because he demanded that she stayed close. Romantic but tyrannical!
Her first husband didn't bear it, and I think that it must have been difficult for her second husband too, even after Freddie's death since she moved in Freddie's former house and kept it unchanged a sif he were still there. Of course she also took care of his beloved cats (I believe he said she had too in his will!).
Someone upload two videos on youtube called The Loves of Freddie 's life, part 2 was about Mary...but part 1 was about his cats!
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Those kind of friendships are hard to understand from the outside sometimes. -- AS, Sunday, January 08, 02:02:15pm(NoHost/173.180.97.132)
It's just nice to know there was someone out there he was able to trust beyond the bounds of a sexual relationship...I've never understood the appeal of rock stars since I've never found any of them really "hot" and the serial marriages of Jagger,etc just left me cold. This story was new to me and a side of him that's fascinating to find out about after all these years.
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People find labels reassuring and don't like something that "does not fit in" -- Chani, Sunday, January 08, 02:31:02pm(81-65-157-129.rev.numericable.fr/81.65.157.129)
I have known about Mary and Freddie for many years because my big sister belonged to the official Queen fan club in the 70's and was friend with one of Roger Taylor's girlfriends, but Mary is a very private person -- she never wrote a book on Freddie or her relationship with him unlike so many of his so-called friends and lovers(but to be fair unlike them she didn't need the money since Freddie made her a very wealthy woman!)and only gave in to the journalists once, giving an interview in 2000. Perhaps Freddie managed to protect her from the media too. Apparently he was very private too, despite the stage extravaganza and "bohemian" lifetsyle. It's only when he died and left her his estate that her existence became known.
Why did he trust her above anyone else? We'll never know, but the fact that they met and were a couple before he became a rock star might be one of the reasons.
Freddie had a few other affairs with women in the 80's, hence many people calling him bisexual(those labels again!) but it's quite obvious that he was more attracted to men, sexually, and he settled in with one male partner at the end of his life, yet he said that he could never be in love with his male lovers the way he was with her, as she was his soul mate. Ah the mysteries of love...
I don't doubt that there was a deep bond between them, a true love and real caring relationship (he was her son's god-father), but I also think that being an artist type, Freddie needed a muse, and Mary was his.
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