"You can do whatever you want to my music, just don't make it boring"

[Schindler's Lifts]

This is apparently a quote by Freddie Mercury, which is pretty hard for me to not know because it gets thrown around on every Queen music video on Youtube or any meme or ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ online with a Queen song in it.

My question is, did he ACTUALLY say this? Most other forums I found from a
google search seem equally unsure if he actually said it. And with how frequently it gets thrown around the internet, it would be real funny if it turned out that he never said it.

[earlysunsets2]

Yesterday i watched the documentary Freddie Mercury - The Great Pretender.

In it, Jim Beach (acc to wiki he was/possibly still is Queen's manager) said the very last thing (freddie) said to me was you can do anything you like with my music, my image, my life, anything, but never make me boring. So i'm guessing that's where the quote comes from. He may well have said it to band members too.

Freddie is then shown in an old interview saying "songs are like buying a new dress or a shirt. you wear it and then discard it. people are always writing new songs"

[Devsman]

My favorite Queen mystery is who sang the ultra low "gotta bring that Leroy Brown" line.

I've heard everything from Freddie did it, to it was the producer, to someone sang it double time and they slowed it down.

[earlysunsets2]

Originally posted by Devsman:

My favorite Queen mystery is who sang the ultra low "gotta bring that Leroy Brown" line.

I've heard everything from Freddie did it, to it was the producer, to someone sang it double time and they slowed it down.

I had to google that, never even heard of that song. I'm not a big Queen aficionado, i only have 2 of their albums plus the 3 volume greatest hits. I've got most of the documentaries and the live performances that have aired on tv though.

Not really a guilty pleasure for me, more i generally listen to music but with Queen it's more of a show to watch. A lot of that is down to the sheer volume of songs they have. It makes watching a concert more appealing than randomly picking out one of their gajillion albums to listen to.

[Affronter]

I think he said the same thing about his teeth at the Dental Clinic.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

legaly speaking even if he said that It doesn't mean you can use his songs and do whatever you want with it.

There are other peoples that now own the copyrights for those songs and they could technically make a claim on a strike on your youtube video if it's feature a song from Queen unless it's properly considered as a parody under fair use.

Even if it's a parody the copyright owner might still actually try to get the videos down or claim the ads revenue and I don't doubt it's probably happened before.