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Don’t feel bad, I really wanted to meet a gal like Lola, a fierce female who was utterly like a man.
After listening to Queen’s “Don’t stop me now” a lot over the last few years, with the paired lines, “I’m going to make a supersonic woman of you” and “I’m going to make a supersonic man out of you”, I found myself wondering how we never realized Freddie Mercury was bisexual.
How could anyone miss it? I saw it early on.
Come on, “Obvious things” is right in the thread title!
Quoted because it reminded me that I remember learning on Pop-Up Videos that Kate Pierson does backup vocals on REM’s Shiny Happy People.
That, at least to me, is one of those things that if you didn’t already know, you can’t unhear it.
Similarly, Linda Ronstadt does back up on Neil Young’s Heart Of Gold and Old Man. However, TIL, James Taylor is in there as well.
When I was a high school student in 1974-77, the default assumption for a band named “Queen” was that they were gay guys, or at least playing with the idea that they were. The part of Freddie being bisexual that surprised me later was that he was also into the gals. One hell of a rocker and somehow homophobia never negatively impacted his status on the high school mainstream rock fans.
I only ever really thought two things about Queen. One was that they were overly bombastic, and the other was that Roger was (and is) hot.
It wasn’t just an age issue. There was also an ethnic element involved. Zoot Suit culture was most prevalent among Hispanics and to a lesser extent among Blacks, Italians, and Asians. It was basically a way for non-white young men to assert themselves against the mainstream white culture. Which was often a dangerous thing to do in the 1940’s.
The 70s and early 80s were surprisingly open and tolerant of homosexuality.
Queen and David Bowie had huge Rockstar status. John Ritter was hooting it up a TV Show where the premise was a guy pretending to be gay. Bosom Buddies was on the air.
When he was a young’un, one of my kid’s teachers played Bohemian Rhapsody in class. A jock-type didn’t think it rocked enough and sneered “This music is, like, gay”.
My kid raised an eyebrow at him: “You have no idea…”
This reminds me that W. Axl Rose of Guns N Rose does backup vocals on Don Henley’s song “I Will Not Go Quietly” on The End of The Innocence album
And Shannon Hoon from Blind Melon sang backup on Don’t Cry from Use Your Illusion 1 by Guns N Roses.
Does not compute. If there is any quantity of rocking that is ever enough, “Bohemian Rhapsody” is it.
Oh come on, it’s got silly voices in it.
Not sure about this. Next to MC5 “Kick Out The Jams”, the Queen song sounds like Mantovani.
She also sang backup on “Near Wild Heaven” and “Me in Honey” on the same album. I don’t know if videos for either of those ever got any airplay.
Iggy Pop’s “Candy” popped up on my Youtube rotation the other day, reminding me that Kate did the female vocals on that one as well.
And every Emily Dickenson poem.
In “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”, why didn’t the devil claim victory? The winner of such a contest is pretty subjective, claim victory and take the soul- who’s going to stop him?
Maybe the devil is actually fae, and he was bound by fae rules?