Queen, a band I never "got"

Axe Elf said:
Pfft. Queen had five or six albums out before his homosexuality became widely known in the late 70s, and being gay wasn't a particularly popular thing at that time, either.
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"widely known' by the general and often clueless public, the band's name was Queen for Petes sake lol. I believe the industry insiders knew all along and embraced, even quietly championed gay people and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. My assertion is in no way a slam against him or the band, I just think it's fact.
 
chadnliz said:
"widely known' by the general and often clueless public, the band's name was Queen for Petes sake lol. I believe the industry insiders knew all along and embraced, even quietly championed gay people and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. My assertion is in no way a slam against him or the band, I just think it's fact.
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Good grief, you people require more redirection than a herd of cats.

Even Freddie Mercury's own WIFE didn't know about it until December of 1976, which was between Queen's fifth and sixth albums ("A Day at the Races" and "News of the World").

The band was NOT named "Queen" because there was one bisexual and three heteros in it. The "industry insiders" did NOT know all along, nor did they promote Queen because of Freddie's sexuality.

All of this "Oh, we shoulda known" crap is nothing more than revisionist history. "Oh, we shoulda known" that David Johansen was gay because his band was called "The New York Dolls" and he dressed up in girls' makeup and fur stoles and what have you? "Oh, we shoulda known" that Alice Cooper was a transgender, because he took a girl's name and wore mascara? It was just a name, and a logical one for a British band, much like the USA's "Presidents of the United States of America." "Oh, we shoulda known" they were all black.
 
chadnliz said:
"widely known' by the general and often clueless public, the band's name was Queen for Petes sake lol. I believe the industry insiders knew all along and embraced, even quietly championed gay people and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. My assertion is in no way a slam against him or the band, I just think it's fact.
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Good Night Nurse .:rolleyes:
 
Back when wondrous music spewed seemingly effortlessly and non stop, I myself never considered once what the sexuality of a musician might be, of course this was before ones sexuality became an agenda.
 
Axe Elf said:
Good grief, you people require more redirection than a herd of cats.

Even Freddie Mercury's own WIFE didn't know about it until December of 1976, which was between Queen's fifth and sixth albums ("A Day at the Races" and "News of the World").

The band was NOT named "Queen" because there was one bisexual and three heteros in it. The "industry insiders" did NOT know all along, nor did they promote Queen because of Freddie's sexuality.

All of this "Oh, we shoulda known" crap is nothing more than revisionist history. "Oh, we shoulda known" that David Johansen was gay because his band was called "The New York Dolls" and he dressed up in girls' makeup and fur stoles and what have you? "Oh, we shoulda known" that Alice Cooper was a transgender, because he took a girl's name and wore mascara? It was just a name, and a logical one for a British band, much like the USA's "Presidents of the United States of America." "Oh, we shoulda known" they were all black.
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The older I get the more I understand it's pointless to argue with somebody who needs to be right....kinda like herding cats. Maybe you are right, maybe I am..who cares, I still ain't buying any more Queen albums.
 
Rock star wives are always super bright and no gay man has ever lived a lie, a double life or suffered silently....that surely makes you right! Nobody has ever made a clever name that could have been a veiled reference to a hidden fact, hiding out in the open is at times the best disguise.
As for you getting into the weeds with Alice, David and other lumped in examples, that's pretty irrelevant but a smart guy like you knows that.
Still not buying another Queen album.
 
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Queen is what can happen when Karen Carpenter's instructions in "Sing A Song" are followed. Anyone who can sing can get it!

As Hippie Derangement Syndrome fades to a feeble "Off my lawn!", it's obvious that some are still left who never "got" the sixties. Mike Wallace would report to me in my pajamas early in the morning, the exact status of the war in Vietnam. The body counts were always ten times higher for the enemy. Any eight-year-old could get it. We were winning. After grade-school assassination coverage, riots in a different city every week, all summer long it seemed, the 1968 Democratic convention and landing on the moon the next year, after all that, the seventies seemed, to someone young at the time, to be rather tame after the war ended at least, with flower power co-opted, and everybody just digging Harvest Gold, and being free.

Elton John had just come out as a bi-sexual, for some reason, and that just seemed too perverse for my mom - "oh, he's playing his bi-sexual music", she once told my dad. To me, a rock star's groping preferences were simply irrelevant, but apparently such matters still worry some today!

A friend was just starting his bicycle business, and his enthusiasm for you-know-what song was infectious. If you don't "get" Queen, it's OK.

But don't miss The Rocky Horror Picture Show. ;)
 
Queen Rocks!

I didn't know Freddie was a 'swinger' until sometime in the mid-80s, and finding out was somehow creepy. He had already changed to a hetro image, and I wasn't familiar with how he looked prior. I'm sure the people around him knew about it, as well as, the people that promoted the group. I bet the name Queen is a reference to homosexuality.

Freddie was a heck of a showman regardless of his orientation. I don't think I would have partied with the man, however.

 
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