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THE WILD FREDDIE MERCURY STORI YOU WON’T SEE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODYGOG CLUBBG WH PRCS DIANA AND PISSG OFF SID VIC SOMEHOW DIDN’T MAKE THE CUT FOR THE BPIC.BY YOHANA DTANOVEMBER 6, 2018FREDDIE MERCURY BOARDG A TRA OM LEIN TO AMSTERDAM 1982.BY ROB VERHORST/REDFERNS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVECLUBBG WH PRCS DIANA. PISSG OFF SID VIC. HCHG A RI ON DARTH VAR’S SHOULRS. ALL ARE JT A FEW OF THE WILD, WONRFUL THGS FREDDIE MERCURY DID DURG HIS THUNRCLAP OF A LIFE. ALAS, YOU WON’T SEE ANY OF THOSE AFOREMENTNED STORI FEATURED BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, THE QUEEN BPIC STARRG RAMI MALEK AS THE CHARISMATIC ROCK ONTMAN. THE FILM FOC ON THE BROAR STROK OF THE SGER’S LIFE, SKIPPG OVER SOME OF THE MORE LORFUL BS THAT HAVE BEEN LEFT TO LEGEND. BUT FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DIG A LTLE EPER, HERE’S A BRIEF GUI TO SOME OF THE BT FREDDIE MERCURY STORI AROUND.QUEEN, MEET THE PRCSAMONG THE MOST LEGENDARY MERCURY STORI IS THE ONE ABOUT THE TIME HE WENT CLUBBG WH PRCS DIANA. IT ALL STARTED WHEN THE TWO OF THEM, ACPANIED BY EDIAN PAL KENNY EVERETT AND ACTRS CLEO ROS, WERE HANGG OUT ONE DAY, DRKG CHAMPAGNE AND WATCHG GOLN GIRLS RENS, ACRDG TO ROS’S BOOK THE POWER OF POSIVE DRKG. MERCURY, EVERETT, AND ROS HAD PLANS TO GO OUT LATER THAT NIGHT AND DIANA SISTED ON JOG; SHE WAS “ FULL MISCHIEF MO,” THE ACTRS NOT. THOUGH THEY TRIED TO NVCE HER OTHERWISE, MENTNG THE HEADL SUCH AN OUTG ULD GARNER, DIANA WOULDN’T HEAR OF , AND NEHER WOULD MERCURY. “GO ON, LET THE GIRL HAVE SOME FUN,” HE TOLD ROS AND EVERETT. SO, THEY DRAGGED HER UP, DRSG HER AN ARMY JACKET, A P, AND SUNGLASS AND THEN HEAD OUT TO ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN, A GAY BAR SOUTH LONDON.“WHEN WE WALKED . . . WE FELT SHE WAS OBVLY PRCS DIANA AND WOULD BE DISVERED AT ANY MUTE,” ROS RELLED. “BUT PEOPLE JT SEEMED TO BLANK HER. SHE SORT OF DISAPPEARED. BUT SHE LOVED .”IT WAS MERCURY, ROS NOT, WHO DREW MOST OF THE ATTENTN OM THE CROWD, WHICH HELPED PULL EYEBALLS AWAY OM THE MYSTER MAN WHO LOOKED AN AWFUL LOT LIKE PRCS DI . . .MOCKG SID VICFREDDIE MERCURY WASN’T NOTOR FOR FDG WH OTHER ARTISTS, BUT HE DID MAKE AN EXCEPTN FOR SEX PISTOLS BASSIST SID VIC. IT WAS 1977, AND QUEEN AND THE SEX PISTOLS, THE BURGEONG FAC OF PUNK ROCK, WERE ALL UNR ONE ROOF AT WSEX SOUND STUDS NORTH LONDON. QUEEN WAS WORKG ON NEWS OF THE WORLD, WHILE THE PISTOLS WERE WORKG ON NEVER MD THE BOLLOCKS, HERE’S THE SEX PISTOLS. DRAW WHATEVER SYMBOLISM YOU LIKE ABOUT TWO BANDS ON OPPOSG ENDS OF A SHIFTG GENRE WORKG UNR THE SAME ROOF, BUT THIS MUCH WAS SIMPLE: VIC WASN’T A FAN.PER AN OLD TERVIEW WH BRIAN MAY, VIC MA THE FIRST REMARK. “YOU’RE FREDDIE MERCURY, AREN’T YOU? YOU’RE BRGG BALLET TO THE MASS,” HE SNEERED, ACRDG TO MAY; VIC WAS REFERRG TO A PREV QUOTE MERCURY HAD GIVEN THE PRS. MERCURY RPOND WH A CUTTG LTLE JAB OF HIS OWN: “I LLED HIM SIMON FEROC OR SOMETHG, AND HE DIDN’T LIKE AT ALL,” THE SGER SAID AN 80S-ERA TERVIEW. “I SAID, ‘WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT ?’”HE NTUED, MOCKG THE SCRATCH ON VIC’S BODY. “HE HATED THE FACT THAT I ULD EVEN SPEAK LIKE THAT,” MERCURY SAID. “I THK WE SURVIVED THAT TT.”LLAMA SAY LLAMA SA LLAMA COO SAIN 1983, MERCURY AND MICHAEL JACKSON, HOT OFF THE RELEASE OF THRILLER, WERE PLOTTG TO RERD AN ALBUM OF DUETS. IT WAS A PERFECT IA, THIS POTENTIAL UNN OF QUEEN AND THE NASCENT KG OF POP. THREE TRACKS HAD ALREADY BEEN WRTEN AND MOED, BUT THE STUD SSNS ULTIMATELY FALTERED. WHY? BEE JACKSON BROUGHT HIS LLAMA TO THE STUD. MERCURY WAS APPARENTLY NOT TO !ACRDG TO MERCURY’S FORMER MANAGER, JIM BEACH, THE ROCKER LLED HIM AND ASKED, “CAN YOU GET OVER HERE? YOU’VE GOT TO GET ME OUT OF HERE, I’M RERDG WH A LLAMA.”HOWEVER, JACKSON HAD HIS PLATS, TOO. THE POP STAR WASN’T FOND OF THE SGER’S ALLEGED E HAB AND THEY EVENTUALLY HAD A FALLG OUT OVER MERCURY’S E OF THE DG JACKSON’S LIVG ROOM.THE SGER’S APPARENT DG E HAS SCE BEE PART OF HIS LORE. ELTON JOHN, WHO’S SPOKEN NDIDLY ABOUT HIS OWN DG E AND ADDICTN, ONCE SAID THIS OF THE SGER: “FREDDIE MERCURY ULD OUT-PARTY ME, WHICH IS SAYG SOMETHG. WE’D BE UP FOR NIGHTS, STG THERE AT 11 THE MORNG, STILL FLYG HIGH.”STAR WARS?IN THE 1978 SONG “BICYCLE RACE,” MERCURY DISMISS THE DOMANT MOVI OF THE DAY, SGG: “JAWS WAS NEVER MY SCENE / AND I DON’T LIKE STAR WARS.” IT’S A PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD LYRIC, BUT TURNS OUT THAT MERCURY DIDN‘T REALLY HARBOR THAT MUCH ILL WILL TOWARD GEE LUS’S SPACE OPERA. DURG SHOWS 1979 AND 1980, MERCURY ADD A SILLY STUNT TO QUEEN’S LIVE SHOWS TO PROVE , ROLLG UP ONSTAGE ON THE SHOULRS OF A MAN DRSED A DARTH VAR STUME (THOUGH SOMETIM WAS A SUPERMAN STUME). SOMETIM HE’D DO WEARG NEXT TO NOTHG, SAVE FOR A TEENY-TY PAIR OF BLACK SHORTS.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDPHOTOGRAPHER TOM CALLS PTURED THE NOW-INIC SHOT OF MERCURY ON AUGT 10, 1980, AT HOTON’S SUMM CENTER. MERCURY, WEARG A FLASH T-SHIRT, SS ON VAR’S SHOULRS AND HOLDS HIS FIST THE AIR. AT THAT SHOW, HE PULLED THE STUNT DURG THE BAND’S ENRE, WHICH BEGAN WH “WE WILL ROCK YOU”“EVERYBODY JT THOUGHT WAS SO FUNNY,” CALLS SAID A 2015 TERVIEW. “SO FREDDIE. IT WAS SO OVER-THE-TOP.”20 DEFG NATALIE PORTMAN ROL1 / 20CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM ©COLUMBIA PICTUR/PHOTOFT.LéON: THE PROFSNALTHE 1994 H-MAN DRAMA TAPULTED 13-YEAR-OLD PORTMAN TO STARDOM AFTER SHE PLAYED MATHILDA, A WORLD-WEARY PRE-TEEN WH AN LIBLE BOB CUT AND EVER-PRENT CHOKER.YOHANA DTA

THE WILD FREDDIE MERCURY STORI YOU WON’T SEE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODYGOG CLUBBG WH PRCS DIANA AND PISSG OFF SID VIC SOMEHOW DIDN’T MAKE THE CUT FOR THE BPIC.BY YOHANA DTANOVEMBER 6, 2018FREDDIE MERCURY BOARDG A TRA OM LEIN TO AMSTERDAM 1982.BY ROB VERHORST/REDFERNS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVECLUBBG WH PRCS DIANA. PISSG OFF SID VIC. HCHG A RI ON DARTH VAR’S SHOULRS. ALL ARE JT A FEW OF THE WILD, WONRFUL THGS FREDDIE MERCURY DID DURG HIS THUNRCLAP OF A LIFE. ALAS, YOU WON’T SEE ANY OF THOSE AFOREMENTNED STORI FEATURED BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, THE QUEEN BPIC STARRG RAMI MALEK AS THE CHARISMATIC ROCK ONTMAN. THE FILM FOC ON THE BROAR STROK OF THE SGER’S LIFE, SKIPPG OVER SOME OF THE MORE LORFUL BS THAT HAVE BEEN LEFT TO LEGEND. BUT FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DIG A LTLE EPER, HERE’S A BRIEF GUI TO SOME OF THE BT FREDDIE MERCURY STORI AROUND.QUEEN, MEET THE PRCSAMONG THE MOST LEGENDARY MERCURY STORI IS THE ONE ABOUT THE TIME HE WENT CLUBBG WH PRCS DIANA. IT ALL STARTED WHEN THE TWO OF THEM, ACPANIED BY EDIAN PAL KENNY EVERETT AND ACTRS CLEO ROS, WERE HANGG OUT ONE DAY, DRKG CHAMPAGNE AND WATCHG GOLN GIRLS RENS, ACRDG TO ROS’S BOOK THE POWER OF POSIVE DRKG. MERCURY, EVERETT, AND ROS HAD PLANS TO GO OUT LATER THAT NIGHT AND DIANA SISTED ON JOG; SHE WAS “ FULL MISCHIEF MO,” THE ACTRS NOT. THOUGH THEY TRIED TO NVCE HER OTHERWISE, MENTNG THE HEADL SUCH AN OUTG ULD GARNER, DIANA WOULDN’T HEAR OF , AND NEHER WOULD MERCURY. “GO ON, LET THE GIRL HAVE SOME FUN,” HE TOLD ROS AND EVERETT. SO, THEY DRAGGED HER UP, DRSG HER AN ARMY JACKET, A P, AND SUNGLASS AND THEN HEAD OUT TO ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN, A GAY BAR SOUTH LONDON.“WHEN WE WALKED . . . WE FELT SHE WAS OBVLY PRCS DIANA AND WOULD BE DISVERED AT ANY MUTE,” ROS RELLED. “BUT PEOPLE JT SEEMED TO BLANK HER. SHE SORT OF DISAPPEARED. BUT SHE LOVED .”IT WAS MERCURY, ROS NOT, WHO DREW MOST OF THE ATTENTN OM THE CROWD, WHICH HELPED PULL EYEBALLS AWAY OM THE MYSTER MAN WHO LOOKED AN AWFUL LOT LIKE PRCS DI . . .MOCKG SID VICFREDDIE MERCURY WASN’T NOTOR FOR FDG WH OTHER ARTISTS, BUT HE DID MAKE AN EXCEPTN FOR SEX PISTOLS BASSIST SID VIC. IT WAS 1977, AND QUEEN AND THE SEX PISTOLS, THE BURGEONG FAC OF PUNK ROCK, WERE ALL UNR ONE ROOF AT WSEX SOUND STUDS NORTH LONDON. QUEEN WAS WORKG ON NEWS OF THE WORLD, WHILE THE PISTOLS WERE WORKG ON NEVER MD THE BOLLOCKS, HERE’S THE SEX PISTOLS. DRAW WHATEVER SYMBOLISM YOU LIKE ABOUT TWO BANDS ON OPPOSG ENDS OF A SHIFTG GENRE WORKG UNR THE SAME ROOF, BUT THIS MUCH WAS SIMPLE: VIC WASN’T A FAN.PER AN OLD TERVIEW WH BRIAN MAY, VIC MA THE FIRST REMARK. “YOU’RE FREDDIE MERCURY, AREN’T YOU? YOU’RE BRGG BALLET TO THE MASS,” HE SNEERED, ACRDG TO MAY; VIC WAS REFERRG TO A PREV QUOTE MERCURY HAD GIVEN THE PRS. MERCURY RPOND WH A CUTTG LTLE JAB OF HIS OWN: “I LLED HIM SIMON FEROC OR SOMETHG, AND HE DIDN’T LIKE AT ALL,” THE SGER SAID AN 80S-ERA TERVIEW. “I SAID, ‘WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT ?’”HE NTUED, MOCKG THE SCRATCH ON VIC’S BODY. “HE HATED THE FACT THAT I ULD EVEN SPEAK LIKE THAT,” MERCURY SAID. “I THK WE SURVIVED THAT TT.”LLAMA SAY LLAMA SA LLAMA COO SAIN 1983, MERCURY AND MICHAEL JACKSON, HOT OFF THE RELEASE OF THRILLER, WERE PLOTTG TO RERD AN ALBUM OF DUETS. IT WAS A PERFECT IA, THIS POTENTIAL UNN OF QUEEN AND THE NASCENT KG OF POP. THREE TRACKS HAD ALREADY BEEN WRTEN AND MOED, BUT THE STUD SSNS ULTIMATELY FALTERED. WHY? BEE JACKSON BROUGHT HIS LLAMA TO THE STUD. MERCURY WAS APPARENTLY NOT TO !ACRDG TO MERCURY’S FORMER MANAGER, JIM BEACH, THE ROCKER LLED HIM AND ASKED, “CAN YOU GET OVER HERE? YOU’VE GOT TO GET ME OUT OF HERE, I’M RERDG WH A LLAMA.”HOWEVER, JACKSON HAD HIS PLATS, TOO. THE POP STAR WASN’T FOND OF THE SGER’S ALLEGED E HAB AND THEY EVENTUALLY HAD A FALLG OUT OVER MERCURY’S E OF THE DG JACKSON’S LIVG ROOM.THE SGER’S APPARENT DG E HAS SCE BEE PART OF HIS LORE. ELTON JOHN, WHO’S SPOKEN NDIDLY ABOUT HIS OWN DG E AND ADDICTN, ONCE SAID THIS OF THE SGER: “FREDDIE MERCURY ULD OUT-PARTY ME, WHICH IS SAYG SOMETHG. WE’D BE UP FOR NIGHTS, STG THERE AT 11 THE MORNG, STILL FLYG HIGH.”STAR WARS?IN THE 1978 SONG “BICYCLE RACE,” MERCURY DISMISS THE DOMANT MOVI OF THE DAY, SGG: “JAWS WAS NEVER MY SCENE / AND I DON’T LIKE STAR WARS.” IT’S A PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD LYRIC, BUT TURNS OUT THAT MERCURY DIDN‘T REALLY HARBOR THAT MUCH ILL WILL TOWARD GEE LUS’S SPACE OPERA. DURG SHOWS 1979 AND 1980, MERCURY ADD A SILLY STUNT TO QUEEN’S LIVE SHOWS TO PROVE , ROLLG UP ONSTAGE ON THE SHOULRS OF A MAN DRSED A DARTH VAR STUME (THOUGH SOMETIM WAS A SUPERMAN STUME). SOMETIM HE’D DO WEARG NEXT TO NOTHG, SAVE FOR A TEENY-TY PAIR OF BLACK SHORTS.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDPHOTOGRAPHER TOM CALLS PTURED THE NOW-INIC SHOT OF MERCURY ON AUGT 10, 1980, AT HOTON’S SUMM CENTER. MERCURY, WEARG A FLASH T-SHIRT, SS ON VAR’S SHOULRS AND HOLDS HIS FIST THE AIR. AT THAT SHOW, HE PULLED THE STUNT DURG THE BAND’S ENRE, WHICH BEGAN WH “WE WILL ROCK YOU”“EVERYBODY JT THOUGHT WAS SO FUNNY,” CALLS SAID A 2015 TERVIEW. “SO FREDDIE. IT WAS SO OVER-THE-TOP.”20 DEFG NATALIE PORTMAN ROL1 / 20CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM ©COLUMBIA PICTUR/PHOTOFT.LéON: THE PROFSNALTHE 1994 H-MAN DRAMA TAPULTED 13-YEAR-OLD PORTMAN TO STARDOM AFTER SHE PLAYED MATHILDA, A WORLD-WEARY PRE-TEEN WH AN LIBLE BOB CUT AND EVER-PRENT CHOKER.YOHANA DTA

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