Freddie Mercury filmed “The Great Pretender” video, Battersea, London, UK, Director David Mallet
- Version of The Platters 1956 hit
Mercury's music video for the song featured him parodying himself in many of his Queen guises through video medium over the years, including visual re-takes of: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "Radio Ga Ga", "It's A Hard Life", "I Want To Break Free", "I Was Born To Love You", "One Vision"
On the set with Freddie also Roger Taylor and Peter Straker
Today 𝗧𝗼𝗺 uploaded an Instagram story of a 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗮 story, so a special collage of him in his 2018 and 2021 interviews couldn't be missing 💯
A few months ago I uploaded a very special video, if you missed it, you can find it here ☝🏻
He is a wonderful man and I love how excited and happy he is with dogs 🐶❤️ I love him so much 😍💘
Will we have another video of 𝗧𝗼𝗺 with Battersea this year 👀?
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Él es el mejor ser humano 💝🥰
Hoy 𝗧𝗼𝗺 subió una historia en Instagram de una historia de 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗮, así que no podía faltar un collage especial de él en sus entrevistas de 2018 y 2021 💯
Hace unos meses subí un vídeo muy especial, si te lo perdiste, puedes encontrarlo aquí ☝🏻
Es un hombre maravilloso y me encanta cómo se emociona y es feliz con los perros 🐶❤️ Le quiero tantísimo 😍💘
¿Tendremos otro vídeo de 𝗧𝗼𝗺 con Battersea este año 👀?
In these days, April, 1984 - Queen Promotional Video 'I Want To Break Free'
Director David Mallett;
Filming Location: Battersea, London, Limehouse Studios, London (now destroyed warehouse next door)
Written by John Deacon
🔸 Intricate recreation of the Debussy ballet "L'Après-Midi D'un Faune", performed by the Royal Ballet.
Freddie rehearsed intensely with the Royal Ballet members, and the results, which took an entire day to film and were choreographed by Wayne Eagling, were astonishingly beautiful, and have since become yet further proof of Freddie's perfectionist genius, even if he felt somewhat humbled by his lack of dancing ability compared to the professionals
I was gifted tickets for the Ocean at the End of the Lane play by my thoughtful partner, and promptly decided I was going to make the most of it organizing my very own Neil Gaiman Tour of London. I’ve been wanting to visit some of the magnificent sevens for ages - so it was two birds with one headstone, really.
It first took a little bit of poking around Kensal Green cemetery to find the JF Huth mausoleum, where the iconic picture with Terry and Neil was taken - its carvings used for the book and show. Lots of stone angels in that graveyard, but also, charmingly, some snakes. If you ever want to find the mausoleum.
Then we payed our respects to Soho and Berwick Street staring both in Good Omens (kind of) and Neverwhere, before heading to the theater. The play was, needless to say, utterly beautiful. As were the adaptation choices : the books the boy reads - echoes of his own story, how they took the fantastic flea to life, how they made the father-son relationship even more central to the narrative.
Under an unlikely bright november sun (vampires sadly weren’t seen), we went to both sides of Highgate cemetery, because of the Graveyard Book : "The graveyard in The Graveyard Book was built up equally from Highgate Cemetery West, Abney Park in Stoke Newington, and a little bit from Glasgow Necropolis." NG.
And finally we went to Battersea to have a sandwich in front of the iconic Good Omens bandstand. From an old stone bridge we watched the night turns the Thames black, without being eaten by the darkness ourselves - as it apparently only happens in the London Below. We walked almost 13 km that day, or more accurately, 8 miles.
I’ve crossed the channel countless times and I will keep on doing it because there’s still so much to discover in this huge, old, wonderful city.