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True Dough

(27,314 posts) Tue Sep 6, 2016, 12:26 AM Sep 2016

Freddie Mercury would have turned 70 today

Which Queen tune is your #1?

I gotta go with...

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Freddie Mercury would have turned 70 today (Original Post) True Dough Sep 2016 OP

The Prophet's Song, from A Night at the Opera (1975) megahertz Sep 2016 #1

Don't forget the theme better than the movie... TreasonousBastard Sep 2016 #2

" '39" Aristus Sep 2016 #3

I'm going with him and Bowie.. sir pball Sep 2016 #4

That would be mine! smirkymonkey Sep 2016 #11

These two are long-standing favorites of mine ... earthshine Sep 2016 #5

Terrific picks, both of them. (nt) Orrex Sep 2016 #9

It's Late Skittles Sep 2016 #6

Probably Bohemian Rhapsody Ron Obvious Sep 2016 #7

Freddie Mercury Now Races Around the Sun. elleng Sep 2016 #8

If only Queen was still around! Initech Sep 2016 #10

megahertz

(182 posts)

1. The Prophet's Song, from A Night at the Opera (1975)

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Sep 6, 2016, 12:41 AM

Sep 2016

Massive.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

2. Don't forget the theme better than the movie...

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Sep 6, 2016, 12:50 AM

Sep 2016

Aristus

(72,528 posts)

3. " '39"

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Sep 6, 2016, 12:51 AM

Sep 2016

I call it the saddest song ever written about Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

sir pball

(5,352 posts)

4. I'm going with him and Bowie..

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Sep 6, 2016, 02:38 AM

Sep 2016

But with one performer alive

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

11. That would be mine!

Reply to sir pball (Reply #4)

Thu Sep 8, 2016, 07:34 PM

Sep 2016

earthshine

(1,642 posts)

5. These two are long-standing favorites of mine ...

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Sep 6, 2016, 03:33 AM

Sep 2016

and both appropriate for the topic of Freddie's premature demise.

I saw them in 1980 for the Game Tour. Simply fabulous.

Orrex

(67,398 posts)

9. Terrific picks, both of them. (nt)

Reply to earthshine (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 12:58 PM

Sep 2016

Skittles

(172,904 posts)

6. It's Late

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Sep 6, 2016, 04:37 AM

Sep 2016

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

7. Probably Bohemian Rhapsody

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Sep 6, 2016, 12:40 PM

Sep 2016

But that's a conventional choice which someone will probably post soon anyway.

A little bit more obscure, a song I first encountered in the movie Highlander, in which it was particularly poignant.

elleng

(141,926 posts)

8. Freddie Mercury Now Races Around the Sun.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Sep 6, 2016, 12:54 PM

Sep 2016

An asteroid soaring between Mars and Jupiter has been named for the singer, who died in 1991.

The honor was announced on Sunday in a YouTube video by Brian May, the former Queen guitarist who became an astrophysicist after the band broke up. It coincided with a posthumous birthday celebration for Mr. Mercury in Montreux, Switzerland. He would have been 70.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/arts/music/freddie-mercury-now-races-around-the-sun.html?

Initech

(109,274 posts)

10. If only Queen was still around!

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 02:54 PM

Sep 2016

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