Offstage - mostly uncannily real!ĭEADLINE: Were you there often during shooting the Live Aid concert performance scenes? TAYLOR: The Live Aid sequence was first – his stage moves were spot on. You can see how completely authentic that moment was - on a set which miraculously reproduced every inch of the original Live Aid stage.
There’s an iPhone capture of me in the wings on that day on my Instagram feed. I saw it first on the first day of filming … Live Aid. Some of what you see on the screen was improvised … and it’s more real than anything that could have been imposed upon them. How close was it to how you remembered it? Rami “got it” from the start.ĭEADLINE: There must have been a moment where you watched those actors performing and got nostalgic for those glory days. TAYLOR: We left that to him and his astute comprehension, gained from Freddie’s interviews. Gwil, in my opinion, gives a wonderful performance which will grow in appreciation.ĭEADLINE: What mannerisms of Freddie Mercury were you most concerned with seeing onscreen? He absorbed it all incredibly well - but I became aware later that he had also absorbed my whole “persona” - my body language, my way of reacting to moments. I spent some good fun times with Gwil, examining the way I played certain guitar pieces, and talking about how some of those moments felt, and in particular the kind of dynamic that I felt with Freddie and the rest of the band. There was no feeling that we had to “pump him up” - I think he just absorbed the whole atmosphere of how it would have been to be Freddie, amongst us. So I think a certain familiarity grew up. I guess we opened up to him easily, Roger and I. MAY: We spent quite a bit of time together in those weeks prior to shooting. And that’s the way it worked out.ĭEADLINE: How were you able to help him get the handle on his role, especially the onstage scenes? MAY: Above his obvious skills, he was someone who, as a human being, made us feel like we wanted to welcome him as family.
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TAYLOR: Intelligence and intensity, plus he really looked right for the part. ROGER TAYLOR: We were utterly charmed by this interestingly-dressed, charismatic pocket-battleship of a man!ĭEADLINE: Describe the specific qualities… But his characterization went much further than that. We watched his demo screen tests - which were great - but really it was the feeling in the room that here was the perfect man to don Freddie like an overcoat! Of course, Rami had already mastered Freddie’s unique accent and tone of voice. His instinctive “inhabiting” of Freddie’s physical presence was already uncanny. His reading of Freddie’s personality was spot on. It actually says it all! After a few minutes with him in Roger’s flat, everything about Rami had clicked with us. But here’s the deal: I don’t sing this song, we all sing this song together”.BRIAN MAY: My stereo picture from the QUEEN in 3-D book shows us in that very first meeting. “And in 1992, exactly 30 years ago, we said goodbye to Freddie in a style similar to this – so I know that Freddie would be very happy to use this song to honour Taylor Hawkins. “And in 1986, we were on this exact spot, singing this song together”. “I did not write this song, it was written by a young boy called Freddie Mercury”, Brian May told the audience. “On this exact spot”īrian May finished off the set with a live acoustic performance of ‘Love Of My Life’. “Roger showed us a clip of someone singing along to this next song, and we made one phone call, and within 20 minutes, this person told us that he would come here tonight to sing it with us”. “It might have been Roger that had this idea,” Grohl told the audience. The Foos singer revealed that it was difficult to find the right vocalist for that track, as Hawkins also sang that song. Taylor was on vocals for ‘I’m In Love With My Car’, while Justin Hawkins took to the stage for ‘Under Pressure’.ĭave Grohl then welcomed Eurovision singer Sam Ryder onto the stage for ‘Somebody To Love’. ‘We Will Rock You’ saw Roger Taylor joined on stage by his son Rufus who played drums, while Luke Spiller of the Struts starred as lead vocalist. This live set saw this new supergroup perform tracks ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘I’m In Love With My Car’, ‘Under Pressure’, ‘Somebody To Love’, and ‘Love Of My Life’. Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor joined Dave Grohl and co for a set of classic tracks from the rock band. After hyping the crowd with an imitation of Freddie Mercury’s iconic “ay-oh” chant, Hawkins can also be heard saying “When I was 10 years old, my older sister took me to go see Queen in concert – the first concert I ever saw – and I watched the fucking drummer, and I said, ‘I wanna fucking be him, I wanna do that’”.
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