Is This The Real Life? (68 page)

‘I felt a bit sorry for myself’: Douglas Bogie, Queen bassist, fired after just two shows in 1971.
Courtesy of Douglas Bogie

‘They wanted the world, and they wanted it no later than teatime on Friday’: Queen, Imperial College, London, 2 November 1973.
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Rock Opera: London’s famous Hammersmith Odeon, during Queen’s sold-out five-night run, November to December, 1975.
Peter Hince

‘I yell much less than the others’: John Deacon, Wessex Studios, London, Autumn 1976.
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Queen go gospel: recording the video for ‘Somebody to Love’, Wessex Studios, London, Autumn 1976.
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Peter ‘Ratty’ Hince, future head of the Queen road crew, inspecting John Deacon’s bass, 1977.
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Court jester: Freddie Mercury and John Deacon, A Day at the Races tour 1977.
Rex Features

Queen, at Mountain Studios, Montreux, recording the
Jazz
album, 1978. The band would buy the studio in 1979.
Peter Hince

Love of my life: Freddie Mercury with former girlfriend Mary Austin, Hotel Eden Palace au Lac, Montreux, 1978
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Peter Hince

Queen’s state-of-the-art lighting rig, ‘The Pizza Oven’, being fired up before its first use at Dallas Convention Centre, 28 October 1978.
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Freddie Mercury hiding behind his own image, Musicland Studios, Munich, Spring 1979.
Peter Hince

‘I wasn’t quite Baryshnikov’: Freddie Mercury rehearsing with the Royal Ballet Company, London, October 1979.
Rex Features

Brian May breaks Queen’s ‘no synthesisers’ rule, Mountain Studios, Montreux, Autumn 1981.
Peter Hince

Freddie Mercury and producer Reinhold Mack (‘His job was to make it fresh and new and exciting’), Musicland Studios, Munich, 1981.
Peter Hince

Roger Taylor relaxing during the recording sessions for Queen’s David Bowie collaboration, ‘Under Pressure’ (‘A clash of the titans’), Mountain Studios, Montreux, 1981.
Peter Hince