“Even as he was dying, Mercury threw himself into his majestic, operatic singing. Queen’s Brian May recalls that Mercury could hardly walk when the band recorded “The Show Must Go On” in 1990. “I said, ‘Fred, I don’t know if this is going to be possible to sing,’ ” May says. “And he went, ‘I’ll fucking do it, darling’ — vodka down — and went in and killed it, completely lacerated that vocal.”
Rolling Stone profile of Freddie Mercury for their 100 Greatest Singers list.
“I’ll fucking do it, darling” though.
This is still one of the best things i’ve ever read.
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“The Show Must Go On” DESTROYS me every time I hear it. When you realize it’s the last song he ever recorded, and you listen…it’s his final scream into the night.
