Were you looking for this? Then you’re in luck.
My good friend and radio co-host, Tom, is a billionaire playboy who is probably the biggest Queen fan on the south side of Edmonton, and he had an internet connection installed right in his brain so he can spend every spare moment locating stuff exactly like this and e-mailing it to me.
Whether you’re talking about arena rock god fashion, accoutrements like the mic stands cut in half, or his total subversion of the notion of the rock and roll frontman as hyperheterosexual he-man, that Freddie Mercury was one innovative guy.
But this – how he predicted the sound of the machines that would one day imitate him – that was the true genius of Freddie Mercury.
Most dot matrix printing technology was configured so as to be compatible with British Arena rock of the 1970′s. For the same reason, dial-up modem sounds of the 1980′s inspire trance music of the 1990′s.