Queen: Days of Our Lives Page #11

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And their heads turned

and the frisson you felt was,

"They're stealing the show. "

# I've paid my dues

# Time after time

# I did my sentence

# But committed no crime

# And bad mistakes

# I've made a few

# I've had my share of sand kicked

in my face

# But I've come through

# We are the champions,

my friend... #

I defy anybody who saw it not to have

goose pimples on the back of their neck

when you saw that sea of people.

# We are the champions

# We are the champions... #

I remember looking up and seeing the whole place

going completely bonkers in unison and thinking,

"Oh, this is going well. "

#.. the champions

# We are the champions,

my friend

# And we'll keep on

fighting till the end... #

We did have an unfair advantage.

We had done football stadiums.

Freddie particularly learned this

magical way

of involving everybody.

In a huge football stadium,

he could make everybody feel

they were in contact.

# We are the champions...

#.. of the world. #

People say, "Was it a career move?"

Well, no, it wasn't a career move

but of course that's

in the back of everybody's mind.

We got a great reception

from the crowd, even at Wembley,

and also from the

TV audience as well.

So in fact, it was a great boost of

confidence, in a way, for the group.

To have conquered

Live Aid in that way

undoubtedly breathed

fresh energy into the band.

It was a shot in the arm

and we went back in the studio.

We were back in Munich with

all its attendant dangers,

so we tried to keep ourselves

in the studio as much as possible.

Ta-dah!

# Hey! One man, one goal

# One mission, one heart... #

I had a page, a sort of poem that was sort of

half nicked off Martin Luther King's famous speech.

It doesn't fit. It does.

One goddamn decision.

Real decision.

No, it won't fit.

It was all one this and one that.

# One God, one soul,

make one decision... #

Make one decision. One true religion.

# One God, one vision

# One man, one goal,

one true religion

# One dump, one turd

Two tits, John Deacon

# Woh-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Give me one vision... #

The Magic Tour was the biggest tour

we'd ever undertaken.

# No wrong, no right

# I'm gonna tell you there's no black

and no white... #

We planned an entire tour

of stadium gigs.

# All we need is one world,

one vision... #

Massive shows all over Europe, and really

fantastic reception. We hit another level.

We were finally in the place we'd

always dreamed of being, perhaps.

# I had a dream when I was young

# A dream, sweet illusion... #

That tour had gigs like Budapest in

it, which in itself is a great thing.

Budapest was the first stadium

concert behind the Iron Curtain.

People hitch-hiked from

all over Eastern Europe.

# Look what they've done

to my dream... #

It was a great tour because

it ended up two nights at Wembley.

Hello there, my beauties.

This is happening.

# Give me your hands

Give me your hearts... #

In addition to Wembley Stadium,

we put on an extra one

because it sold out so quick, the

two nights, so we put Knebworth on.

# One voice, one hope

One real decision

# Gimme one light One light

Gimme one hope One hope

# Just gimme, ah

One man, one man

# One bar one night

One day hey hey

Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme

fried chicken. #

They were the final shows

with Freddie,

and I remember it being

pretty much perfect.

"God Save The Queen"

I just got the vibe from Freddie,

he felt that he wasn't

maybe able to do any more.

I know there'll be a time when I

can't run around on stage

because it'll be ridiculous. There

comes a time when you have to stop.

I think he had an idea that

he might not be terribly well.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Freddie told me that he was HIV

positive before he told the band.

This put me in

a very difficult position

because he told me

he didn't want me to tell the band.

So there was I, managing

a band, knowing something

of crucial importance to the band

which I couldn't pass on to them.

# Every drop of rain that falls

in Sahara desert says it all

# It's a miracle

# All God's creations

Great and small

# The Golden Gate

and the Taj Mahal

# That's a miracle

# Test-tube babies being born

# Mothers, fathers, dead and gone

# It's a miracle... #

There were rumours

and he was obviously suffering,

and we didn't know what it was,

and rumour, rumour, rumour...

And so he did sit us down

at one point and said,

"Look, you probably know what

I'm going to say.

"You know what I'm suffering from.

You know what the problem is

but I don't want to talk about it

anymore. I just want to make music

until the day I f***ing die.

And... let's get on with it.

# It's a miracle

# It's a miracle... #

These are some of our best

studio times.

We've made the decision that all

the songs we write will be credited

to all of us, so it kind of

releases a bit of...

positive energy in us.

They became closer and closer,

without any doubt.

The sharing of writing credits

was a major breakthrough.

Some magical things happened,

I think.

There's this track called

The Miracle, itself,

which I think is one of Freddie's

most beautiful creations.

# The one thing

The one thing

# We're all waiting for

# Is peace on earth

Peace on earth

# And an end to war

An end to war... #

'I love the track. It's all

so optimistic about the world'

and the miracles that are being

found in the world.

Which is incredible when you think

what he's looking at

because he knows what he's got and

he knows what the prognosis is.

# That time will come

One day you'll see

# When we can all be friends

# That time will come

One day you'll see

# When we can all... #

APPLAUSE Special Award for an

outstanding contribution to British music

goes to John Deacon, Brian May,

Freddie Mercury,

Roger Taylor - Queen.

APPLAUSE:

The first indications

something wasn't right

was Freddie looked a

little thinner to me.

And I called John up to see

what was going on.

I said, "Is something wrong with

Freddie?" And he wouldn't tell me.

The thing that annoyed me

more than anything was a shot

of Freddie in The Sun and he'd just

come out of the doctor's, I think.

It's a really grainy,

full-page shot. "Is this man dying?"

And I thought,

"You f***ing wankers. "

# Scandal

# Scandal... #

We hid everything and

we avoided questions.

# Scandal... #

I guess we lied.

Because we wanted to protect him.

# Scandal... #

I would then say anything

to anybody. "Is Fred sick?"

"Absolutely not, no.

He was in the gym yesterday.

"F*** you," you know.

"None of your business. "

Everybody had to draw

the wagons around him.

Because at that time, to become ill

was to have a death sentence.

# Today the headlines

Tomorrow hard times

# And no-one ever really knows

The truth from the lies... #

His house was surrounded by...

I don't know, a couple of

hundred, I reckon.

Just like vultures, really.

# Deeper and deeper inside... #

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