An article from 2022
Great Britain continues to indulge in royal bliss. After the diverse celebrations around the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth (96) have now subsided, historical anecdotes are now being dropped.
The (UK) pop scene had gotten up with a large concert at the gates of the Buckingham Palace. Elton John, Rod Stewart, Alicia Keys, Duran Duran and Italo-Tenor singer Andrea Bocelli were among the prominent congratulators.
It goes without saying that the band Queen (with new singer Adam Lambert) had to be there on such a queen jubill. For example at the diamond Royal Jause in 2002.
Now a pod about the deceased queen legend Freddie Mercury is circulating, which is said to have spent a debauchery night with Princess Diana.
At the live AID concert in the old Wembleystadion in July 1985, Freddie Mercury declined to be an official invitation to sit next to Charles and Diana in the stadium lodge. Freddies narrow buddy and long-time band assistant, Peter Freestone, revealed in an interview from “Express Online” that the front man would have had “what better” after his triumphant stage appearance.
‘Oh, bo-no …. Is it bo-no or bon-o?’
The colleagues May and Taylor, on the other hand, appeared in the royal lodge with Diana and Charles. “Freddie didn’t go there. He was more interested in hanging behind the stage with his friends. He chatted with Elton John and his crew. Friends were always the most important thing for him ”.
From the archives, crumpled backstage photos show, for example, a chubby-mopsy bono, together with his wife Ali Stewart, which he had married in 1982. The U2 singer vaguely remembers: “I was on the road with Ali and Freddie Mercury pulled myself aside and said, ‘Oh, bo-no …. Is it bo-no or bon-o?’ I said to him, ‘It is bon-o’.
He said, ‘Come over here. We all talked, Roger [Daltrey] and Pete [Townshend] and David [Bowie]and we all agree that there are no more singers: everyone screams these days, but you are a singer … “
Bono continues: “I was leaning against the wall, and he put his hand on the wall and talked to me as if he were talking to a woman. He made me laugh. But I wiped back and forth nervously while Ali and I looked. “