Posted on 08/11/2019 10:39:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
I would say tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions. He had talent that couldn’t be denied, which is why people still talk about him.
” ... and you’d have to say that Parsis like Mercury are as ethnically Indian as Mahatma Gandhi.”
That is incorrect if they as many ethnic groups (voluntarily) remained and reproduced almost exclusively within their own populations.
The vocals he pulled off on the “Innuendo” album were amazing considering how sick he was then, it was definitely their best album in years.
There is something about some folks who are exceptionally creative in the arts. So many of the best of them had personal lives with personal problems on average that were disproportionately greater than the percentage of such problems in the general population. It is almost as if extreme creativity & a commitment to using it and stable personal life often take divergent paths. I doubt if anyone knows why.
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We have some homosexual friends who are “a couple”. Never in your face and we oftemn have some good conversations (both are Trump supporters to boot).
When “Bohemian Rhapsody” made its splash, one of them asked me why I thought “they” decided to push Queen as hard as they did and glorify it so much...I gave him my “John Prine” smile (from the lyrics, “Well, a question ain’t really a question If you know the answer too....” from the song “Far From Me”) and he grinned and said, “Exactly - if Freddie wasn’t so blatantly Gay, they would have picked someone else as the greatest band ever.”
I must disagree. Freddie’s musical talent and that of the other members of Queen made them one of the two greatest bands ever, the other being Led Zeppelin.
Not sure about # 1 and #2, but most probably top ten. Top ten out of thousands of talented bands is iconic.
Which bands would you put in the top five, or top ten?
You can pull dozens if industry "lists" and the same names generally appear in the top 10, just slightly different orders, take your pick.
I’ll tell my friends the next time I see them....
BTW - I personally love Queen’s music and have amassed most of it in my collection.
Total agreement.
A very underrated album.
A lot of literary critics/historians would aver that this is the theme of Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott." She sits in a tower, separated from the rest of humanity, weaving images she can only view through a mirror. The beauty of her art derives from her existence and observations from her unique perspective outside (and above) the society and world she is representing in her art. That is her curse.
When she defies the curse and tries to come down from the tower to join society, she dies and her art goes away.
And don’t forget her troubled mind: “I’m half sick of shadows.”
“When she defies the curse and tries to come down from the tower to join society, she dies and her art goes away.”
That line makes me think the “super creative” develop a personal life that has created life images of themselves - as if the creative element loses the recognition of what to create and has put the creative element into a manufactured image of their own life. As we have seen with many such artists the life they create is unrealistic, or twisted, or perverted, or self-destructive in other ways. And when reality catches up with them, it all falls apart; not just the creativity, the life. Its like an inability to separate real life from art.
But doesn’t zoroastrianism regard homosexuality as an unforgivable sin?
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