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Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - guitar and vocals
Songs: "Voodoo Child," "Foxy Lady"
Defeated Opponents: Elvis Costello, Clyde McPhatter, Robin Zander, Arlo Guthrie, Brian Eno
Propaganda: none
Brian May (1947-) Queen - guitar
Songs: "White Queen (As It Began,)" "The Prophet's Song"
Defeated Opponents: Ronnie Lane, John Coltrane, Roger Hodgson, Paul McCartney
Propaganda: "He's very tall, his hair is the stuff of legends, his brain is the size of planets, he has a doctorate in astronomy, he built the guitar he still plays to this day (like a god) as a teenager. His songwriting and musical abilities have made him a legend in his own right and he also plays with this little group called Queen. Everyone who's ever met him unanimously say that he's the nicest, most decent person there ever was. Also, he's ridiculously beautiful in every decade he's been on this earth. Need I say more?"
"While Freddie is hot and Roger is pretty, Brian stands out as sort of ethereally beautiful. He floats across the stage in Zandra Rhodes while delivering heavy riffs, then switches to self-harmonizing in as light and fae a manner as you could wish."
"An Angel singing with his beautiful voice and his very own special guitar. On the best Rock tracks ever! His face like a greek god surrounded by heavenly curls, prancing skillfully on the stage with his long legs in platform shoes."
Freddie Mercury (1946-1991) Queen - lead vocals and piano
Songs: "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Seven Seas of Rhye"
Defeated Opponents: Leonard Cohen, Sting, Sammy Davis Jr., Marc Bolan
Propaganda: see visual
Visual Propaganda for Brian May:
Visual Propaganda for Freddie Mercury:
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Hey!! Fanelli Fest!! Day one: Domesticity!
@fanellifest
Thank you for running this event 💕
#WHEN I SAY I’M OBSESSED#it’s so cute i am going to CRY and SOB#i stared at this for hours last night when i got the notification#could hardly see through my tears well enough to reblog it#joe fanelli#freddie mercury#art
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#if somebody asks ‘why is there no new joe lore post for friday?’ or ‘why isn’t your fanelli fest writing done?’#the answer is I’m On A Work Trip#and i went to bed at 2am this morning and woke up at 5am#after doing all the source tracking to write the last joe lore post#and i have to get up at 4:30am tomorrow#and if i don’t go to sleep right now i will literally fucking die#that’s why
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Who Was Joe Fanelli? Pt. 2
Relationship With Freddie
This is where we start to enter speculation territory, as there isn’t more information readily available (at least that I’ve found through doing research) on the specific start and end dates of Joe and Freddie’s relationship.
Queen played a show in Boston, Massachusetts on November 13, 1978 as part of their Jazz 1978 Tour, followed by a show in Providence, Rhode Island on November 14, and then two shows in New York City on November 16 and 17. It’s not unreasonable to believe that Freddie might have met Joe around this time.
There is photo documentation showing that Joe was with Freddie at Queen’s March 1, 1979 show in Paris, France and in Japan (show dates ranging from April 13 through May 6) as part of their Live Killers Tour of Europe.
Their relationship ended certainly before November of 1979 as Peter Freestone began his employment with Queen at this time, and in his second book written in collaboration with David Evans (published 2003), Peter says the following:
I had heard of Joe Fanelli before I actually met him. He had been spoken of by the band, Freddie and their friends when I started working for Queen in 1979. The impression I received of him was that of an American, small-town country boy who had become caught up in Freddie’s whirlwind. Freddie preferred to find a ‘clean slate’ as far as material for relationships was concerned and then to imprint his own stamp on them. From what I gather, Joe had not been able to cope with all the pressures unintentionally put upon him by the process of being ‘imprinted.’ He had walked out of Freddie’s house and their relationship but not from Freddie’s life because Freddie had taken it upon himself to guarantee the conditions for Joe’s alien residency in England. (Freestone, pg. 48-49)
Due to the pressure of having to hide their relationship from the public eye—in a lifestyle of fame that provides little to no respite from being perceived publicly—and having to keep up with said famous lifestyle, Joe did develop a heavy drinking habit. This possibly contributed to their relationship’s end, as Joe did achieve sobriety after he and Freddie separated.
The story of their breakup is further corroborated by (less than reliable when it comes to Queen history and timelines) David Minns, in his book written in collaboration with David Evans.
David Minns—Freddie’s first boyfriend, with whom he cheated on Mary—was receiving similar treatment and being cheated on by Freddie with Joe. Freddie was bold enough to have them interact at times.
All photos included in This Was The Real Life, courtesy of David Minns.
Photo 1 Caption: Cherry Brown, David Minns, Freddie and how weird for Joe Fanelli
Photo 2 Caption: David Minns, Freddie Mercury, Joe Fanelli, Peter Straker. 'The night Freddie and I broke up.'
Photo 3 Caption: Freddie, Peter Straker, Mike Allison, Wendy Allison, Joe Fanelli
According to David, “Freddie had decided that he had found a new lover and that the young man, Joe Fanelli, would be moving in with Freddie at his new flat in Stafford Terrace.” Some time after this, David received a phone call from Freddie “seeking solace. Freddie confessed that Joe had flown back to New York and taken money and belongings from Stafford Terrace.”
(Several sources date Freddie moving into Stafford Terrace in 1976, and as previously stated, please keep in mind that David Minns’ recounting of the timeline of events is questionable.)
If David is to be believed, at some point after this, Joe returned to England and continued to live and work in London after Freddie had originally moved him there in 1978.
Freddie and Joe reconnected in 1983 for Freddie’s thirty-seventh birthday celebration hosted in Los Angeles, California. According to Peter Freestone in his first book in collaboration with David Evans (published 1998), Peter writes:
Freddie wanted Joe Fanelli to cook for the party and Joe duly arrived from London. The occasion marked the rapprochement between Freddie and Joe who had been working independently as a chef in several London restaurants including September’s in Fulham Road since the break-up of their relationship. (Freestone, pg. 90)
Joe would later be employed full-time and move into Garden Lodge in 1985.
#second post is up!#LOTS of cross checking resources#y’all should’ve seen me writing this last night#calvin klein underwear and blasting gay club hits#joe fanelli
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Who Was Joe Fanelli?
The Joe-verview
Joe Fanelli (c. April 12, 1954 – June 3, 1993) was an American from Franklin, Massachusetts; an ex-boyfriend of Freddie’s; later, his very dear friend; later still, his nurse/caregiver.
Joe and Freddie met in 1978, and their relationship lasted until they broke up some time in 1979. Afterwards, Joe continued to live in the UK—working as a professional chef in several London restaurants, including September and Provan’s—with his residency arrangements as a non-UK Citizen (likely via a work visa) being secured in effort by Freddie himself.
Likely stemming from the stressful nature of his relationship with Freddie—which included uprooting his entire life to a foreign country—and also the prevalence of drinking in the culture of professional chefs, Joe developed an alcohol dependency as a coping mechanism. According to Peter Freestone, by the time Joe had been hired full time to reside in Garden Lodge in 1985, he had gotten sober and sought new solace in regularly going to the gym. He also was “a dedicated vegan” as written by Brian in Queen in 3-D.
Consider this the Hot Girl Comeback that follows the Bad Bitch Fumble.
In addition to his professional culinary training and workout habits, Joe also found a hobby in computers, teaching himself how they worked, how to write programs (including coding a version of Countdown which could be played at home), and familiarizing himself with the internet during his efforts to research HIV/AIDS information.
Said research was of particular importance as Joe, along with Peter Freestone, became one of Freddie’s caregivers all the while dealing with his own HIV/AIDS diagnosis.
With regards to personality, Joe is described by Peter Freestone as “highly intelligent,” having “a positive nature,” and “prepared to argue anything, stand up for whatever.” Jim Hutton wrote in Mercury and Me that Joe had “a cautious approach to people and life,” and recalled the following event which possibly provides insight to the dynamics of Freddie and Joe’s working relationship/friendship, and definitely gets a laugh:
Joe was standing by the sink in the kitchen and Freddie was sitting at the table looking very stern.
‘And you’re fired, too!’ Freddie snapped at me.
‘Pardon?’ I said.
‘You can’t sack Jim,’ Joe told Freddie with a gloriously smug expression.
‘Why not?’ he snapped.
‘Because he doesn’t work for you!’ he said.
‘Oh, no he doesn’t, does he?’ Freddie replied.
There are several anecdotes about or involving Joe in many of the published memoirs written by those close to Freddie, and we’ll hopefully be able to share some of those here soon.
More in-depth posts about many of these topics—Joe’s relationship with Freddie, his job with Queen on tour, his role at Garden Lodge—will be coming with more specifics!
It says a lot regarding Joe’s character, about the type of person he was, to make several life changes and to also reconnect with an ex after a less-than-ideal falling out, repairing a friendship that lasted the remainder of their lives. As one of the lesser-known people in Freddie’s orbit, we hope this post helped you get to know Joe Fanelli a bit better.
What is remembered lives.
#i wrote a joe post :)#fanelli fest starts on friday if you're interested#check out the pinned post on the blog!#joe fanelli
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#this is frankly the Cuntiest photo they ever took#john slaying like his life depends on it#the boys! the boys!
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#i’m gonna be so fucking real#if brian wins i promise y’all none of you will see the gates of heaven
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Freddie Mercury (1946-1991) Queen - lead vocals and piano
Songs: "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Seven Seas of Rhye"
Defeated Opponents: Leonard Cohen, Sting, Sammy Davis Jr., Marc Bolan
Propaganda: see visual
Brian May (1947-) Queen - guitar
Songs: "White Queen (As It Began,)" "The Prophet's Song"
Defeated Opponents: Ronnie Lane, John Coltrane, Roger Hodgson, Paul McCartney
Propaganda: "He's very tall, his hair is the stuff of legends, his brain is the size of planets, he has a doctorate in astronomy, he built the guitar he still plays to this day (like a god) as a teenager. His songwriting and musical abilities have made him a legend in his own right and he also plays with this little group called Queen. Everyone who's ever met him unanimously say that he's the nicest, most decent person there ever was. Also, he's ridiculously beautiful in every decade he's been on this earth. Need I say more?"
"While Freddie is hot and Roger is pretty, Brian stands out as sort of ethereally beautiful. He floats across the stage in Zandra Rhodes while delivering heavy riffs, then switches to self-harmonizing in as light and fae a manner as you could wish."
"An Angel singing with his beautiful voice and his very own special guitar. On the best Rock tracks ever! His face like a greek god surrounded by heavenly curls, prancing skillfully on the stage with his long legs in platform shoes."
Visual Propaganda for Freddie Mercury:
Visual Propaganda for Brian May:
#NO#the screams of anguish that left me#you would’ve thought someone was murdered#(someone was. Me.)#freddie mercury#brian may#billboard hotties tourney
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having to boop from my main account instead of this one is the second worst thing that's ever happened to me. getting errors when i'm trying to super boop is the first
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For this year's anniversary of John Deacon meeting his future lifelong wife Veronica at a disco (26th March 1971) I made a sort of extra panel of my comic from last year 🥰 Iwent a bit more manga-like this time and sadly I had to rush it, but I still hope you'll like it anyway 💕💕💕
Please do not repost without credits! Reblogs and comments are welcomed 💜
#THEY’RE SO 🥺😭#rachel you’ve done it#after 6 years i’m officially on the johnica train#punch my ticket#john deacon#veronica tetzlaff#johnica#art
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March 26, 1971
John Deacon meets his future wife Veronica Tetzlaff at the Maria Assumpta Teacher Training College, the same disco where a few months earlier he first met Roger and Brian to audition for Queen.
I really wanted to draw more comic pages and I thought this was the perfect occasion to try some sequential art once again after a while. Had a TON of fun drawing this! It's exaggerated, romanticised, almost anime-like, way too colorful... and I love it like this! Hope you'll like this as well! 🥰💕💜💖💕💖💜
Please do not crop, edit or repost! Reblogs and comments are highly appreciated! 💜
#OH this is CUTE cute!!!!!!#the posing is so dynamic#and the panel layout is SO visually pleasing#simply iconic behavior from john; forming the most important personal relationships of his life in discos#john deacon#veronica tetzlaff#johnica#art
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New footage of John and Brian (and baby Robert!) at the News of the World album launch party 🥺💕 I can't stop watching them aww
Source here.
#i cannot stop watching this and laughing#brian's violently unimpressed american accented 'it's a party'#robert peacing tf out and john hauling ass after him#john deacon#brian may#video
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#incredible how we got two diss tracks in one poll#vote for the bitchiest lyrics#i know Back Chat is a certified club banger but#‘you’re a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride’#that OPENS the album
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RIP freddie mercury, your anxious attachment style would’ve hated listening to hozier
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A picture is worth a thousand words. So, let's allow some photos to inspire us!
The premise of this collection is to take photographs of Queen (Et al.) and use them as a starting-off point for creativity. Whether a photo inspires you to write a drabble, a ficlet, a vignette, a poem, a multi-chapter fic, a dialogue, a screenplay, etc. or to draw, sketch, or paint, then feel free to post the photograph that inspired you along with your creation into this collection.
The goal is to inspire each another to create!
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