Happy Birthday Freddie

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EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Only the good die young :smith:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Mc-NYPHaQ

# ? Sep 5, 2016 18:58

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 01:24

Naked Bear: Apr 15, 2007; Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!

Freddie will always be a star.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/freddie-mercury-asteroid-17473-queen/

Ars Technica posted:

We will space rock you: Asteroid named after Queen�s Freddie Mercury

Today marks the 70th birthday of legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, and to celebrate, an asteroid nearly half a billion kilometers away has been named after the late singer�quite the gift for the man who once sang of himself as "a shooting star leaping through the sky."

Queen guitar hero/astrophysicist Brian May, backed by the International Astronomical Union, announced that asteroid 17473�a 3.5km-wide ball of rubble currently located in the main Asteroid Belt between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars�will now be known as Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury, in honour of "Freddie's outstanding influence in the world."

Discovered in 1991 by Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne, the Freddiemercury asteroid loops around the sun at 20km per second. Its elliptical orbit never comes closer than 350 million kilometers to Earth, while its surface only reflects about 30 percent of the light that falls on it, making it difficult to see without the aid of a powerful telescope. "It's just a dot of light," said May in a YouTube video, "but it's a very special dot of light."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2vo6VR51eA

Mercury becomes the second member of Queen to have had an asteroid named in their honour, following asteroid 52665 Brianmay, which was first seen in 1998. Indeed, May is a keen asteroid aficionado, having joined up with the European Space Agency to launch Asteroid Day 2016 back in June. Asteroid Day encouraged the public to organise asteroid viewing events in an effort to "raise awareness" of the threat near-Earth objects can pose to the planet.

Mercury joins the likes of the Beatles, Enya, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin, Yes, Bruce Springsteen, and Vanessa Mae�all of which have had space rocks named after them. "I think it's wonderful to name an asteroid after Freddie Mercury," Chris Lintott, professor of astrophysics at Oxford and presenter of The Sky at Night told the Guardian. "Pleasingly, it's on a slightly eccentric orbit about the sun, just as the man himself was."

And, in case you were wondering, the planet Mercury�which is composed of heavy metals and rock, appropriately enough�can be some 222 million kilometers away from the Earth at its farthest point. Over to you to work out the estimated distance between Mercury and the Freddiemercury.

# ? Sep 5, 2016 22:10

Kung Fu Fist Fuck: Aug 9, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jtpf8N5IDE

# ? Sep 6, 2016 05:37

CHICKEN SHOES: Oct 4, 2002; Slippery Tilde

Sorry Freddo I missed this thread so have a bump for me

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:15

Booblord Zagats: Oct 30, 2011; Pork Pro

Another One bites the Dust was playing on the way to work this morning :sad:

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:16

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

You're my Best Friend

:unsmith:

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:19

CHICKEN SHOES: Oct 4, 2002; Slippery Tilde

gonna play a queen record now

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:20

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

I'mma streamin through youtubes

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:20

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

gonna play a queen record now

please be night at the opera please be night at the opera

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:21

CHICKEN SHOES: Oct 4, 2002; Slippery Tilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:21

CHICKEN SHOES: Oct 4, 2002; Slippery Tilde

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

please be night at the opera please be night at the opera

I'M IN LOVE WITH MY CARRRRRRRRR

edit: I put on the Miracle but maybe I could do A Night At The Opera next :kiddo:

we'll see where this magical musical journey goes.

For real though Hot Space gets a bad rap but it's hilarious. I only say that because I almost played that sorry.

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:22

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

no poo poo one of my favorites right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKdxd718WXg

dat bass line

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:31

CHICKEN SHOES: Oct 4, 2002; Slippery Tilde

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

no poo poo one of my favorites right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKdxd718WXg

oh man thats always on my playlist. Invisible man is dope as gently caress, and the video is just :eyepop:

John Deacon I guess was always good for pulling a killer bass line out of his rear end like it was nothing.

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:31

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:33

CHICKEN SHOES: Oct 4, 2002; Slippery Tilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OGd4gplxQM

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:34

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

...fried chicken!

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:35

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Mc-NYPHaQ

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:36

CHICKEN SHOES: Oct 4, 2002; Slippery Tilde

I think One Vision was also the theme song to Iron Eagle or something lol

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:36

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

Theme no, but it was in it; motorcycle/plane race or simulator scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM

# ? Sep 23, 2016 21:43

CHICKEN SHOES: Oct 4, 2002; Slippery Tilde

sorry EBB and Fredster my Bowie box set came today I'll be back soon~

# ? Sep 24, 2016 00:05

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

sorry EBB and Fredster my Bowie box set came today I'll be back soon~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rb6jDvkcHs

# ? Sep 25, 2016 16:31

CHICKEN SHOES: Oct 4, 2002; Slippery Tilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffiZPD6Quos

oh yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw

edit 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2N0TkfrQhY

this is a really neat video imo but I'm a sucker for claymation

edit4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB4K0scMysc

this one makes me straight up misty because it's some of the last footage of Mercury before he died and jesus it shows

CHICKEN SHOES fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Sep 25, 2016

# ? Sep 25, 2016 16:56

PookBear: Nov 1, 2008

what happened to the rest of Queen?

# ? Sep 25, 2016 17:48

CHICKEN SHOES: Oct 4, 2002; Slippery Tilde

John Deacon the bassist basically pulled a Rick Moranis and disappeared forever and doesn't even give interviews or discuss it.

Roger Taylor and Brian May still tour as Queen, first with Paul Rodgers and now Adam Lambert I guess. I've never seen or listened to them because IDK. May is also a astrophysicist is cool.

# ? Sep 25, 2016 17:52

Booblord Zagats: Oct 30, 2011; Pork Pro

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

John Deacon the bassist basically pulled a Rick Moranis and disappeared forever and doesn't even give interviews or discuss it.

Roger Taylor and Brian May still tour as Queen, first with Paul Rodgers and now Adam Lambert I guess. I've never seen or listened to them because IDK. May is also a astrophysicist is cool.

They did a really good tour with Billy idol as the lead singer almost a decade ago. It didn't try to sound like Freddie at all but still had a lot of the energy that made it work

# ? Sep 25, 2016 17:54

CHICKEN SHOES: Oct 4, 2002; Slippery Tilde

Booblord Zagats posted:

They did a really good tour with Billy idol as the lead singer almost a decade ago. It didn't try to sound like Freddie at all but still had a lot of the energy that made it work

That sounds cool as gently caress actually

# ? Sep 25, 2016 18:06

Booblord Zagats: Oct 30, 2011; Pork Pro

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

That sounds cool as gently caress actually

It was, all the recordings Ive heard from it were actually a lot of fun. I have no idea why they didn't stick with it

# ? Sep 25, 2016 18:08

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 01:24

Booblord Zagats: Oct 30, 2011; Pork Pro

Booblord Zagats posted:

It was, all the recordings Ive heard from it were actually a lot of fun. I have no idea why they didn't stick with it

Scratch that, I think I'm misremembering, because all I can find is an Idol band called Kings and Queens.

gently caress, I now really want idol to work with Queen tho

# ? Sep 25, 2016 18:11

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