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My own introduction to music ...

My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get some qualifications, and I ended up winning a choral scholarship to a cathedral school.

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I'm not a musical theatre per...

I'm not a musical theatre person, and I never will be, especially after seeing the way it operates. It's so incredibly inefficient. It takes three weeks to effect a change. It can be a lighting change, a script change, a musical change - you have to meet with six different departments, and about a month later, it may happen.

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I didn't take a lot of the vi...

I didn't take a lot of the videos seriously; making videos was one of the most tedious things that you can imagine.

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The only thing I've got is th...

The only thing I've got is that the ring fingers on both my hands have a little arthritis in each. It's a worn out joint because of too much exertion and stress. But it doesn't affect my playing, which is good.

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We thought Queen were quite t...

We thought Queen were quite tongue in cheek.

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There aren't many good frontm...

There aren't many good frontmen around anymore. Where are they? I can't think of a really young band with a great front person.

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It took about five years unti...

It took about five years until we were properly over Freddie's passing. You learn to live with it.

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There are an awful lot of ban...

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.

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If somebody's going to repres...

If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.

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'We Are the Champions' is mea...

'We Are the Champions' is meant to be 'we,' as in 'all of us,' collectively, not us the band. It's a shame that some people understandably had the wrong take on that. 'No time for losers' is not the kindest line, but it's really more of a 'we all of us.' It's a celebration.

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I shall think of Freddie Merc...

I shall think of Freddie Mercury every day - maybe for a moment, maybe for longer.

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Hearing loss has not affected...

Hearing loss has not affected my vocal range. I can still pitch perfectly, but without the hearing aids, I don't hear the intricate high parts of the actual spectrum.

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Radio is so heavily programme...

Radio is so heavily programmed; you have to fit into a certain box. So it's harder for anything different to get through.

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We became closer and closer a...

We became closer and closer at the end of Freddie's life, and I think we were co-dependent in many ways. We stuck together for an awfully long time, and I think we all felt we needed one another.

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I reckoned I could meet more ...

I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.

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To me, diva means an extraord...

To me, diva means an extraordinary, outrageously theatrical, brilliant performer.

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You can't supervise your own ...

You can't supervise your own history.

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What was Freddie like then? A...

What was Freddie like then? Alongside the showman, he was a rather shy introvert. But if the attention was focused on him, he was a natural star, as we all saw after we put Queen together. Week by week, we saw him grow into this character, Freddie Mercury.

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It is everyone's prerogative ...

It is everyone's prerogative to retire. But it's like giving up on life as far as I'm concerned.

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I think people thought we wer...

I think people thought we were sort of right-wing or something, which we certainly are not. I think they got the wrong idea from the videos, that we were some kind of neo-fascist band. I heard a lot of that.

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