Queen guitarist Brian Could shares his reminiscences of his late good friend and bandmate Freddie Mercury in a brand new interview, and divulges that not each concept that the flamboyant frontman had was golden.
“Deep down Freddie was one of many shyest folks I’ve ever met,” Could tells Queen biographer Mark Blake within the present problem of MOJO journal, “however he was so stuffed with bluster, you’d neglect. Freddie would at all times be excited, and his pleasure would take over. He’d be so full of pleasure he may onerous communicate. “Freddie’s concepts have been off the wall and cheeky and completely different — and we tended to encourage them. Typically the concept he introduced in was good, and generally not good.”
For example of a type of less-than-brilliant concepts, Could remembers an alternate actuality the place Queen’s 1989 album The Miracle may merely have been known as Good, had Mercury received his method.
“He got here in sooner or later and introduced, ‘I’ve received this wonderful thought. Michael Jackson has simply put out this album known as Dangerous? Properly, hear… What do you concentrate on us calling our subsequent album Good?’
“All of us checked out one another and stated, ‘Properly, perhaps we must always give it some thought, Freddie’,” the guitarist remembers. “It wasn’t one among his world-shattering concepts, however trying again, perhaps we have been incorrect…”
Within the interview, Can also confesses that, throughout Queen’s profession, he can be nervous about presenting his tune concepts to his bandmates, who have been all additionally songwriters in their very own proper.
“Each time I introduced a brand new tune to the boys I’d be as nervous as hell, pondering, They’re gonna say it’s garbage, they’re gonna hate it…” he remembers. “I’d at all times be embarrassed and apologising. That by no means ever went away.”
Such nerves however, Can also reiterated that the concept of recent Queen music is not past the realms of chance.
“I believe it may occur,” he tells Blake. “Each Roger [Taylor] and I are continuously writing and developing with concepts and doing issues in our studios.
“I may have the beginnings of a Queen tune proper there in entrance of me now. It’s simply whether or not the concept reaches maturity or not. It’s whether or not that seed can develop.”
