“When John joined Queen Freddie sort of took John under his wing, to try to protect him from the extremes of the rock and roll lifestyle as Freddie felt John was the most innocent of the group. They became very good friends and Freddie was very happy when John found stability in the form of his wife Veronica. They would work closely in the studio and you will notice that there are a couple of Deacon/Mercury compositions as John felt that they would not have happened without Freddie’s input.” -Phoebe Freestone, Ask Phoebe
Two developments prompted the need for a new concept of death, culminating in the definition of brain death proposed in the Harvard report published in 1968.
“Actually, I’ve been playing some blues lately. I’ve done a couple of tracks and I usually end up singing and not screaming; it’s in the range where I can put some passion into it. The funny thing is, I actually can scream. I just did this track for Scotty Moore on a Sun Records tribute. It starts off very quiet and then the guy screams because he’s totally pissed off … I did a version of that and I screamed it. The problem is that I can’t do it all night.”
