This shitty guitar never plays the chords I want it to play! It only knows three chords, but let's see what happens.

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Freddie Mercury of Queen

STRAUME / FLOW (2024) — dr. Gints Zilbadolis

Queen: Freddie Mercury's lyric notebook, circa 1988-1990,

a Challenge spiral-bound notebook, the 'marbled' blue front cover inscribed in black marker Mercury Song Book in an unknown hand, lined pages, containing numerous complete or partial and alternate/unused lyrics and song structures in various ballpoints, felt-tip pens, pencil and crayon, most in Freddie's hand but some entries by Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, titles include 'Party', 'Was It All Worth It?', 'Rain Must Fall', 'Hang On In There', 'Khashoggi's Ship', 'My Baby Does Me', 'I Want It All', 'Too Much Love Will Kill You', 'The Miracle', 'The Hit Man' (photocopy), 'Scandal', 'Don't Try So Hard', 'Headlong', 'These Are The Days Of Our Lives', 'I Can't Live With You', 'Innuendo', 'Ride The Wild Wind' and 'The Show Must Go On', also included are several sketches by Freddie, a few lines of 'Innuendo' written by Brian in pencil on a menu from 'Wasted Space', 8th August 1990, and lines of greeting for the limited edition Fan Club Convention flexi-disc, 8½ x 11½ in (21.5 x 29.5cm)

Images from new series of Queen The Greatest: The Story of Queen I.

He's very shy," Roger explains. "He thinks he's not very good at giving interviews."

What? Is a man who furiously jumps around the stage wearing practically nothing but a mustache in front of millions of people shy?

"He's not like that on stage," Brian replies. "But he needs a lot of time to find a common language with someone he doesn't know. He hates giving interviews and hates the way they do it. People have such a strong idea of what they think of him that no matter what he tells them, he is usually misquoted."

Smash Hits, March 26, 1986.