I saw Queen two nights in a row back in the 70s in the famous Glasgow Apollo. I'd been a fan for quite a while. Bo Rap had just been released, but the concerts were sold out long before that. If the concerts had been after the release, you wouldn't have got tickets for love nor money!
I met Bob Marley at the Apollo the year before he died.
Have to admit I'm a great Queen / Freddie fan was lucky enough to see them live on a number of occasions including Live Aid, and even now as AuntyRach said some (well almost all)of the songs / music still make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Agree about Live Aid @Hostafan1 - outstanding set! I find many of the songs give me tingles - whether it’s the song, Freddie or my memories, I can’t quite tell. My colleague’s family played Who Wants To Live Forever at her funeral last year - I totally ‘went’.
Thinking about it... there are so many Queen songs which would be ‘suitable’ for a funeral or memorial service. Some tearjerkers, some sentimental, some more ironic, some just for celebration, e.g:
Heaven For Everyone 🙁 Love of my Life 😥 Another one bites the dust 😬 We are the Champions 🙂...
Good choice. When I've been in, I've had the BBC news channel on with coverage of the commemorations at Compiegne. Very measured and quiet event. Good.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Morning all. Last coal face duty before the hols. I never have the radio playing in the van, but I must this morning so I don't miss 11am. I told my manager yesterday " I'll be stopping at 11, folk will just have to put up with it."
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"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
I find many of the songs give me tingles - whether it’s the song, Freddie or my memories, I can’t quite tell. My colleague’s family played Who Wants To Live Forever at her funeral last year - I totally ‘went’.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Heaven For Everyone 🙁
Love of my Life 😥
Another one bites the dust 😬
We are the Champions 🙂...
We’ve been watching Remembrance on TV.
Last coal face duty before the hols.
I never have the radio playing in the van, but I must this morning so I don't miss 11am.
I told my manager yesterday " I'll be stopping at 11, folk will just have to put up with it."