Freddy Mercury

Freddy Mercury may not be remembered, but I hear Queen songs in movies and TV pretty frequently.

It's Freddie, OP.

Bite your fingers, OP. FM is still a god.

I think some people are discovering, or re-discovering, Freddy Mercury through Adam Lambert. While Lambert is good filling in for Mercury in Queen, hopefully they're seeing how great and special Freddy Mercury really was.

Still waiting for the FM movie bio. Sasha Baron Cohen at one time was interested and would've been fantastic but then nothing happened.

There is a poster of him hanging in my son's orthodontist's office.

Unfortunately, no, he isn't forgotten. I hear millennials talking about him all the time. (I'm 52.) I wouldn't call any of those songs "power ballads" though.

R7 is right, Queen didn't do ballads. He's not unknown to millenials, I'm guessing a lot of them grew up in households where Queen was played.

What is a power ballad anyway?

I would call "We Will Rock You" and "We are the Champions" anthems.

He was Freddie, not Freddy and of course he's not forgotten. He was a genius.

r5, the latest news about that Freddie film is that Ben Whishaw was supposed to play Freddie, but god knows if we're ever going to see it.

Ben Whishaw???? Don't get me wrong, Ben Whishaw is a wonderful actor, but he seems all wrong. Not to mention that "Freddie Mercury" was actually Farrokh Bulsara, a Zoroastrian of Parsi origin. There are so few of us Parsis left that, according to genealogy research my aunt did in Mumbai, he was my second cousin, once removed. Wish I'd known that when Freddie was still around.

With less than 100k Parsis left in the world, it might be a stretch to expect a studio to find a Parsi actor, but surely they could find an actor of South Asian or Persian descent? Parsis are, essentially, descendants of Persian Zoroastrian refugees who fled what is modern day Persia during Muslim invasions and settled in India.

Oops. That SHOULD read....

[quote]Parsis are, essentially, descendants of Persian Zoroastrian refugees who fled what is modern day IRAN during Muslim invasions and settled in India.

I wonder if the orthodontist R6 mentions wanted to get his hands on Freddie's choppers.

He was so sexy. Loved his teeth.

Freddie

R14 I remember reading somewhere that he loathed his teeth and would've loved to get something done about them but it would've changed how he sang so he couldn't.

Loved him. Big flamboyant flaming queenie Queen queen. A true showman and up to his eyes in talent. I love all the other Queen guys too. Brian May is a sweetheart, very kind, loves animals, a good friend to Patrick Moore.

R14 You do you...

My kid is 13 and he and his friends can sing along to every Queen song that comes on.

Op, absolutely not. Queen performs even better than Michael Jackson among legacy artists on spotify. They are THE best performing legacy artist on spotify. That movie also made them even more popular among the younger generation.

Queen has the most streams on Spotify for 20th century artists, so no.