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Originally Posted by ernie
I'm going to have to side with Cohen on this one. I don't think a movie that truly depicts Mercury can end up being family viewing. But perhaps I'm just fed up with the dumbing down of everything.
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Cohen would have done a great job. Wouldn't we all want to see the crazy parties Freddie had in Germany and New Orleans? I think Freddie would have wanted that part of his life kept private.
http://www.offbeat.com/2011/11/01/fr...-the-fairmont/
http://www.artcornwall.org/interview...lake_Queen.htm
At around the same time Queen gained a reputation for holding the most extravagant parties. Was this just hype or did they really happen? I say this because people like Brian and John particularly seem very reserved and intellectual and not the sort to really enjoy that kind of thing...
Those extravagant parties really did happen, but a little mythology has crept in over the years. The most notorious Queen party was in New Orleans in 1978. This is the party in which there were supposedly dwarves carrying trays of cocaine on their heads. Unfortunately, I’ve been told by several reliable sources that there were no dwarves with cocaine… The former head of EMI Records Bob Mercer (who is sadly no longer with us) shared some wonderful anecdotes about that night. I’m sure Brian May and John Deacon thoroughly enjoyed themselves, as well. It’s just that Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor were the more visible party animals. I was told about lesbian sex shows in Paris and a party in a brothel in Germany in which all the working girls were pre-paid. I have no idea who did what and with whom, but I was assured “that only the single members of the touring party attended”.