Queen - Page 4

***CaptHayfever*** · 06-05-2006, 12:19 PM

He's a syndicated radio DJ who specializes in weird/novelty music. He's also the number one reason anyone knows the name Weird Al Yankovic today.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

Codiekitty · 06-30-2006, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Koga

I like the AKOM video as well, and I absolutely love the Break Free one. I don't find it disturbing, but hilarious. I think the Americans reacted differently to thedrag thing than the British (and other European countries), though. I believe it was even banned when it first came out in 1984.

Funny story: in 1985, they played Break Free as an encore in Argentina. Freddie Mercury entered the stage with fake breasts and some women's clothes. The Argentinians, however, had never seen the video, and were extremely offended, because the song had become an anthem for the struggling people of that country.

Just got done with a car trip with my mother, and feel like mentioning a conversation we had.

I have a disc that's half Weird Al, half Queen. I had left it on the Queen half, "Save Me" to be exact. She turns on the radio, and I switch to Don't Stop Me Now because of the "I'm naked and I'm far from home" line (she can play music about MeatLoaf "drawing first blood", but if I have a song with the word "naked" in it it's a sin against God). A few seconds and I'm able to jump to her Civil War music disc. She asks who that was, I tell her it was a band called Queen. Her immediate reaction is "Oh, is that a bunch of gay guys? Because you know that a word for a gay guy is a queen because of drag queen."

I was so pissed I couldn't get my response together (this isn't the first time she's brought up some obscure homosexual fact as her first reaction to something). But it would have been something about the only one who isn't married is Mercury and that probably has something to do with the fact he's dead (or maybe he never was married. Maybe Koga can fill me in), there's a possiblity "Queen" comes from "God Save the Queen" because, oh, I dunno, they're BRITISH* (I really don't know where they got the name from, but there's still that possibility. Maybe Koga can fill me in on that too), and that the British don't look at dragging the same way Americans do (I do know they dressed in drag in one or two of their music videos).

* Granted, she didn't know what a flipping BOO was (I have that T-shirt from VGCats with the Boo on it, and she asked me what it was), so I wouldn't be surprised if she's never heard of Queen before that brief conversation.

Where are these lemmings going? The Super Nintendo Super Shire! Hop in line and follow them there!

**L007 is Cooler than Dylan** · 07-08-2006, 12:45 PM

Hah, shame your mom isn't like mine. She was a Queen fan herself.

A conversation I had with her as well. It was around the time of the Q+PR tour, and she would of liked to have gone, but she didn't want to remember Queen as that, with Paul Rodgers, but rather with Freddie Mercury (Granted if he was still alive and stopped chain smoking. Even if he hadn't gotten AIDS, he probably would of died from cancer. >_>). It's pretty much more accepting since people aren't used to Paul.

Koga · 07-08-2006, 05:11 PM

Mercury thought of the name, because he wanted something that sounded pompous and over the top, and also because it was something instantly and internationally recognisable. The name of the pre-Queen band with Taylor and May was Smile. At the time Queen got together, Freddie Mercury hadn't come out of the closet yet, and he was unsure of his sexuality (it's been suggested that Bohemian Rhapsody is about his coming out), so it's definitely unrelated to homosexuality. Although many people thought all four of them were gay when they first hit the charts.

In reality only Freddie was gay, although some say he was bisexual. John Deacon had been married since 1975 and has 6 kids, Roger Taylor has been married multiple times and has 5 children, and Brian May has 3 children from a previous marriage, and is now married to an English singer and actress.

They decided to end their shows (and later their album a Night at the Opera) witg God Save the Queen, because of their name; it didn't inspire them to take the name.

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Koga Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: The Netherlands Gender: Posts: 17,093 Thanks: 104 Thanked 174 Times in 116 Posts Points: 107,545.41 Bank: 21,215.78 Total Points: 128,761.19 Donate	Mercury thought of the name, because he wanted something that sounded pompous and over the top, and also because it was something instantly and internationally recognisable. The name of the pre-Queen band with Taylor and May was Smile. At the time Queen got together, Freddie Mercury hadn't come out of the closet yet, and he was unsure of his sexuality (it's been suggested that Bohemian Rhapsody is about his coming out), so it's definitely unrelated to homosexuality. Although many people thought all four of them were gay when they first hit the charts. In reality only Freddie was gay, although some say he was bisexual. John Deacon had been married since 1975 and has 6 kids, Roger Taylor has been married multiple times and has 5 children, and Brian May has 3 children from a previous marriage, and is now married to an English singer and actress. They decided to end their shows (and later their album a Night at the Opera) witg God Save the Queen, because of their name; it didn't inspire them to take the name.