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A while ago I was discussing the sighting of the first image from this video which I don't think I remember having seen before... then recently the second image (re)surfaced (from Countdown?) which seems to be from the same shot. Thanks WendiSpooks (who had it from years ago?? lmao) for sharing with me!
Look at Roger 😭 and I love Brian's nails 🙏
#It's TOTP!#I was pretty sure when I saw this post a day or two ago but didn't want to say in case I was wrong lol#(Because the font/style looked like it but it wasn't the specific photo of queen they usually used so I wasn't certain)#But then I was watching bbc4's usual Friday night programming (4 re-runs of TOTP from various years) and there it was!#Last night was the first time that episode had ever been re-broadcast in full since it first aired in April 1974#(Queen didn't feature in that episode but were in the top ten that week so got a mention)
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This is kinda silly, but I thought it would be fun to draw Queen members in different Doctor’s outfits
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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:
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Day 1 - Friday, 12 April
Birthday Celebrations
First Meetings
Domesticity
Tag us @fanellifest if you'd like to be reblogged, use the tag #FanelliFest2024, and/or add to the Fanelli Fest AO3 collection!
Remember: Delete any and all hateful comments. Do not engage or interact—this goes for other readers as well.
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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.
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#*bloodcurdling scream*#sorry sorry i just woke up from a nightmare where I thought I had to pick between killer queen and ymbf
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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:
#i understand that some people are going for an 'all for one and one for all' vibe here#but unfortunately for brian i find his personality too off-putting for me to be attracted to him
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About 2/3rds of the polls are up, and I'm already seeing some heated (and highly amusing) comments. Now, here's some stats from the first two rounds (under the cut), enjoy!
Widest win/lose margin: Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon vs Crash Dive On Mungo City, 100%
Round One
Narrowest win/lose margin: Fat Bottomed Girls vs Liar, 0.4%
Pairing with most votes: TIE I’m Going Slightly Mad vs Get Down, Make Love || Fat Bottomed Girls vs Liar, 273 votes
Pairing with least votes: Lost Opportunity vs Stealin’, 74 votes
Album with most wins: A Night At The Opera, 11 wins
Album with least wins: The Flash, 1 win
Correct personal predictions: 69 (abstained from 3)
Incorrect personal predictions: 19
Round Two
Widest win/lose margin: My Fairy King vs The Kiss (Aura Resurrects Flash), 90.8%
Narrowest win/lose margin: Dear Friends vs Pain Is So Close To Pleasure, 0.6%
Pairing with most votes: Dreamer’s Ball vs I’m In Love With My Car, 311 votes
Pairing with least votes: Need Your Loving Tonight vs Stealin’, 113 votes
Album with most wins: A Night At The Opera, 8 wins
Album with least wins: TIE Flash Gordon || Made In Heaven, 0 wins
Correct personal predictions: 34
Incorrect personal predictions: 14
#I'm still in disbelief about IILWMC getting knocked out by dreamer's ball#baffled and disappointed#anyway enjoying the tourney and the stats!!
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This hat defense squad
#sure I'll show up for that#I'm all about the two shades of red corduroy plus tapestry plus blue corduroy#not being sarcastic i really am
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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.
Propaganda: see visual
Marc Bolan (1947-1977) T-Rex - guitar and vocals
Songs: "Cosmic Dancer," "Bang a Gong (Get It On)"
Defeated Opponents: Nick Drake, Phil Lynott, Renato Zero
Propaganda: "Pioneer of Glam Rock movement in the early 70s, Bolan combined glamourous fashion with ridiculously sexy stage presence with his band T-Rex. Was notorious at the time for wearing glitter on his face on Top of the Pops in 1971, and combining mens' and womens' clothing. Dubbed 'The pixie prince of glam rock,' Bolan's looks were often described as elvish or androgynous."
"The hair, the smooth voice, the glam look that says 'I’m probably bisexual.'"
Visual Propaganda for Freddie Mercury:
#damn#sorry freddie#maybe on another day it would have been different#as bolan said: i could have loved you‚ girl‚ like a planet#(boy what do you MEAN?)
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Rest in peace Steve Harley -- I was telling someone just this morning how dramatically my mood had been lifted by switching on the radio the other day (like from 'i have no idea how I'm going to make myself dinner tonight' to actual proper cheesy singing and dancing round the kitchen) -- and it was this that did the trick
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#I'm with Bob Harris on this one#NIH is not only one of Brian's greatest songs it's one of Queen's best overall#and it's losing significantly#oh well#go! go! go! little queenie
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Sad that John Deacon has been knocked out of the @billboard-hotties-tourney - but on the other hand this means that he gets to go and party with his best friend Roger Taylor in the shadow realm, which let’s be honest is what he wanted to do all along
(specially to cheer up @eileen-crys )
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"Deaky & family"
A new great quality version of this pic got dropped by the photographer himself, Frederick Moulaert, on Facebook! He made a lovely post about meeting Queen in 1982 and taking a lot of pics on stage and off stage, including a couple of pics of Brian with Jimmy.
Even though I mainly listened to Hard Rock and Metal at the time, Queen always held a special place in my heart. They were the ones who introduced me to rock/hard rock around 1977/78, and I must have listened to "Queen Live Killers" at least a thousand times. I photographed them for the first time in 1980, but it was in 1982 that I met them for the first time.
John was in a very good mood that day. He also was with his wife and kids. But they drove downtown to visit "La Grand Place" so I didn't get the chance to talk to him as much as I did with Brian.
#i thougjt it looked higher quality when i saw the main one the other day and i wondered where it came from that's so cool!!!#ahhh how lovely 💞#veronica tetzlaff
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hes my girlfriend (a man who is now 73 years old)
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