Comments on: About Freddie Mercury Being a Parsi

By: rashflash

rashflash — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:41:12 +0000

what load of Crap!!! Freddie Mercury was a better singer/song writer then Paul Rodgers will ever be!! Rodgers is so 1D!! Freddie had it all when it comes to vocal range and showmanship. Get your facts right. In England and the rest of the world Freddie Mercury and Queen ae considered as one of the best ever in the History of rock/pop music..

By: sid

sid — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:39:16 +0000

IN my book he was and always will be AAPDDO FREDDIE (our Freddie aka Farroukh) We are Indians repping all religions and we should be proud of him ..He was one the best voices I have heard ..right there with PT Bhimsen Joshi, RAFI, KISHORE..Sinatra ..oh heaven must be a great place to be right now )

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:03:12 +0000

I decided to write a few more lines here because reading the response chain, I am not sure how much knowledge is present here about Queen and Freddie Mercury. Show must go on was his last true recorded song recorded when Freddie could barely stand up. Brian May who wrote most of it wanted him to sing in falsetto thinking he could not go full on – but Freddie wanted to go all out – listen for yourself to see the result. Bohemian Rhapsody is not just any composition – it is a special one – Ozzy calls it the most important material put on magnetic tape. Listen to the layered music, it turns a song to an epic – Mercury wrote,composed and obviously sang this one (you can see the genious at work here). What is rock music ? Can you define it ? Well rock music is about attitude, about making statements. I know many like the author thinks if you scream to the top of your lungs, you produce rock music (Well Axl Rose may represent a great band, but is not a great singer, so is David Lee Roth). Paul Rodgers – I don’t know how much you heard – well Queen with Rodgers could not come near to the original Queen (not surprising though – no one will be able to because Freddie was so unique). Rodgers actually is a lot of pop unlike what the author makes you believe. Rock elements Stone Cold crazy, Hammer to Fall, Headlong and many more. You will find all genre in Queen music because they experimented so much and unlike almost everyone else was capable of experimenting. I think the author is not knowlegable enough to write this article or has made it personal.

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:44:12 +0000

Very much mis-represented. Queen was more than rock – Queen was a sound by itself. Talk of musical genious – I think Freddie Mercury is very close to being the greatest – certainly the greatest vocalist of all music. He was a total package. Don’t put David Bowie in the same bracket. Most of the rockers are not really vocalists – well Freddie could go high ( 4 octaves) to low. Try reading what Mr. Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey say of him. Listen to Show must go on (all versions – Freddie, Elton John, Celine Dion) – tell me honest which one stands out. A true genious whose great musical genious is confused with his lifestyle. We know and should always evaluate a musician with his music. If you can do that, you will know what Freddie was.

By: Dawood

Dawood — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:57:13 +0000

Freddie Mercury was very special and completely different from others. Montserrat Caballe once had been quoted: “The difference between Freddie and almost all the other rock stars was that he was selling the voice.” Here I’ve tried to collect all notable tributes paid to Freddie Mercury by peers:

http://www.tributespaid.com/category/f/freddie-mercury

By: yon suprapto

yon suprapto — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:18:38 +0000

although possibly totally correct, i would say that freddie was the most famous asian singer in the world. as an asian, it made me very proud of him. thank you freddie!!!

By: Chathan Vemuri

Chathan Vemuri — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:24:24 +0000

It’s really nobody’s business why he didn’t talk about his ethnicity. Try being an young Asian man in your 20’s in 1960’s Britain and you’ll see its no fun and games. He did what he had to, and he did it well.
Leave him alone.
Besides, in India, Parsis call themselves Persian all the time.
Commentators just got confused when Freddie said it is all.

By: Sorab Shroff

Sorab Shroff — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:38:35 +0000

Love your, “Parsi boy prance around on stage looking like a gay weightlifter in a Cusrow Baug gymnasium” comment! Although I’d like to think Freddie Mercury was a bit more articulate than those stubby monsters at the Cusrow Baug gymnasium!

By: Roomy Naqvy

Roomy Naqvy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:41:09 +0000

A Google search on him throws up many results but this one seems interesting–>

http://www.nndb.com/people/521/000044389/

By: Mark Dorial

Mark Dorial — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:10:03 +0000

Great article
though respectfuly disagree about the Freddie element

He is the GREATEST OF ALL!

ELVIS SHOULD BOW IN FRONT OF HIM
LENNON SHOULD KISS FREDDIE’S FEET

By: Siloo Kapadia

Siloo Kapadia — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:46:14 +0000

But was Freddy Mercury a Parsi? Did anyone stop to consider the fact that he may have converted to another religion, or just stopped practicing the faith?