Freddie Mercury Google Video
Work has kept me well behind on blogging… but I’m not letting this one slip through the cracks.
You must have already seen it, but if not, here’s a treat:
September 5th marked the 65th birthday of Freddie Mercury, an amazing man and one of my few idols, better known as the front-runner of Queen. Sadly this music legend passed at age 45 due to bronchopneumonia on November 24th, 1991, after a decade-long battle with HIV/AIDS.
Google created a great animated tribute to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Queen guitarist, Dr. Brian May, also left a touching post,
“To create with Freddie was always stimulating to the max. He was daring, always sensing a way to get outside the box. Sometimes he was too far out … and he’d usually be the first to realise it. With a conspiratorial smile he would say ‘Oh … did I lose it, dears?!’ But usually there was sense in his nonsense—art in his madness. It was liberating. I think he encouraged us all in his way, to believe in our own madness, and the collective mad power of the group Queen.”
“Freddie would have been 65 this year, and even though physically he is not here, his presence seems more potent than ever. Freddie made the last person at the back of the furthest stand in a stadium feel that he was connected. He gave people proof that a man could achieve his dreams—made them feel that through him they were overcoming their own shyness, and becoming the powerful figure of their ambitions. And he lived life to the full. He devoured life. He celebrated every minute. And, like a great comet, he left a luminous trail which will sparkle for many a generation to come.”
Now, be a kind soul and head over to the Mercury Phoenix Trust site, donate what you can and help combat HIV/AIDS.
