This thread about Freddie Mercury may well be more entertaining than the new film about him
There’s a biopic of Freddie Mercury coming to cinemas next month but if you can’t wait that long then try this Twitter thread instead, documenting all the ‘most iconic things’ the Queen frontman did.
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in honour of bohemian rhapsody coming out in less than a month, I wanted to do a thread of the most iconic things freddie mercury did so y'all can get to know him pic.twitter.com/I5pXFyZzAv
— alice (@germystrong) October 11, 2018
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although most people know about him and queen’s music, y’all dont know how iconic he actually was, so before stan twitter falls for rami’s freddie for like a week (rami u deserve better), let’s appreciate the original hbic
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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ok so,
farrokh bulsara (later changed to freddie mercury ofc) was born in 1946, in zanzibar, he was born with parsi decent and grew up in both zanzibar and india before later moving to england with his family pic.twitter.com/wBoPThez36— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he was a singer, songwriter and record producer, and obviously the lead vocalist of queen pic.twitter.com/8LYZcTMN9A
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he had an estimated four – octave vocal range and is considered one of the greatest vocalists of all time, especially due to his unique tone and his ability to change his style from line to line ((your faves could nEVER)) pic.twitter.com/ZFm1i0945g
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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also wow pic.twitter.com/S1zlhXDYIj
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he is also regarded as one of the greatest front men of all time, david bowie said “freddie took it further than the rest…he was definitely a man who could hold an audience in the palm of his hand” freddie was also praised by many other legends pic.twitter.com/G8ZwClodtH
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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freddie frequently used a broken microphone as his main prop onstage, after he accidentally snapped it off the stand during an early performance and realised it was more useful that way – a convenient queen,, we stan! pic.twitter.com/WllNRss1Zj
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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freddie loved cats, he even dedicated a solo album, ‘ mr bad guy ‘ to his cats, and left a note in the album booklet saying, “this album is dedicated to my cat jerry – also tom, oscar and tiffany and all the cat lovers across the universe – screw everybody else!” pic.twitter.com/icK0WJwW1w
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he also wrote a song about his cat delilah and issa bop! pic.twitter.com/yRG7i4anpl
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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He adopted his cats from rescue shelters (adopt don’t shop) and gave them gourmet meals, christmas stockings and talked to them over the phone pic.twitter.com/sVNjv6fNWw
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he called sid vicious (from the sex pistols) “simon ferocious” and pushed him, when sid came in to the studio and made comments about freddie’s flamboyant attitude and sexuality – so he rlly was THAT bitch pic.twitter.com/YfjgtKIgHM
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he used a piano as a headboard for his bed and taught himself to play backwards, so if he thought of a song idea in bed he could just reach back to play and/or record it (but he didnt consider himself to be a good pianist and hated playing live ugh) pic.twitter.com/Qy3UZwg4dj
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he had a degree in art and graphic design – and designed queen’s emblem based on the zodiac signs of the members (ugh what a virgo move) pic.twitter.com/XrZUOp0IWj
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he used to ride on the shoulders of darth vader and superman during his concerts pic.twitter.com/aRRTLQs9M5
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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although many people overanalyse the meaning of the hit bohemian rhapsody, when asked about it freddie said “it bears no real meaning, it’s all rhyming nonsense” lmaoo indie twitter is quaking pic.twitter.com/RUqUlDtnuq
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he and michael jackson actually collaborated and had recording time together but freddie stopped bc he got uncomfortable when michael would keep bringing his llama into the studio (I actually can’t with this one I -) pic.twitter.com/LfMzONUiqV
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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here’s a lil snippet of a rare recording of them together (there’s a few on youtube) they would’ve been iconic but a llama ruined it sjshgjs pic.twitter.com/hdyliyYpd2
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he wrote the bop crazy little thing called love in the bath, and had a piano brought to him to compose it pic.twitter.com/8FIIqzctNZ
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he dressed princess diana in male drag and snuck her into gay clubs pic.twitter.com/FWWu5Je7Si
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018