One of the biggest Freddie Mercury fan pages of the whole social media which was suspended on Instagram recently, Freddie Mercury Club, has posted yet another rare story and showed how Freddie performed even after losing his voice.
According to the recently released post of the page, Freddie Mercury’s old friend and also known as the consultant of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, Peter Freestone, tells the story of how Freddie had a huge fight with his boyfriend Bill Reid and lost most of his voice because of a screaming match.
According to Peter, after the couple had a terrible night, Freddie was so doubtful about being able to perform on Saturday Night Live. Later on, he drank hot honey and lemon drinks to convince himself that he can finally perform with Queen.
Here is some part of the caption:
“Saturday Night Live was also very important bc it was the first time the band had ever played at a very prestigious television show, watched nationwide by millions of people.
The night before Freddie and his then-boyfriend Bill Reid were fighting & had a screaming match (whom Fred thankfully dumped by the end of the tour.)
Here’s what happened next in Peter Freestone’s words:
“When Freddie awoke on Saturday morning he found he’d screamed himself hoarse the night before. We had a run-through of the show that day where Freddie merely spoke his way through… We spent the whole afternoon in one of the studio’s small bathrooms with the hot tap turned on & the door shut to create as much steam as possible & I dripped drops of the oil of Olbas to infuse the steam with healing efficacy.
The electric kettle was boiling constantly to supply hot water for the continual hot honey & lemon drinks I was making for Freddie. He spent the whole afternoon convinced he’d be unable to perform & felt he was letting the rest of the band down badly.”
You can check out the post right below.
