One of the best Freddie Mercury fan pages on social media, @FreddieMercuryClub posted a new photo on their account and revealed Freddie Mercury’s admiration to the famous late musician Prince, who has died in 2016, because of an accidental fentanyl overdose.
Freddie Mercury Club posted an interesting story of how Freddie was insisting the people around him to listen to Prince.
Here is the story:
“Freddie had one video of a live Prince concert which he forced many people to watch, sometimes over and over again.
When Freddie settled down to watch such a three-hour tape, it could take either fifteen minutes in which we watched only Freddie’s specifically edited highlights or six hours when he would play the same bits over and over again. It was either fast forward or play it again and again and again, Sam!
These video sessions generally occurred at two or three in the morning after Freddie and entourage returned from an evening on the town. The Prince tape was immediately put on and Freddie had sole control of the remote and his guests were subjected to Freddie’s enthusiasm for a said artist again and again and again.”
Here is the rest of the story:
“I managed to avoid ever seeing it but the sound of it haunts me to this day! I was lucky in that I had the excuse of constantly getting drinks for the guests which kept me out of the sitting room.
I think Freddie admired Prince because he was so similar to when Freddie was young. An extrovert on stage, thin, dark, hugely energetic and with that charisma which turns a diminutive form into a giant.”
-Peter Freestone”
You can find the photo below.
