Freddy Mercury will forever be remembered as the flamboyant showman who headed up the rock band Queen. The fantastic if not jaw dropping vocal power created a following that has not lessened all these years later. You can try to stick someone like Adam Lambert into Freddies role but its an excersic in futility. There will never be another Mercury nor should there be. My personal favorite 'Sheer Heart Attack' is timeless rock and without those vocals, Im not so sure it would have the same power.
Now (and finally) comes a documentary on the late great singer from the perspective of a die hard fan. Rhys Thomas, who is described as a Queen scholar and expert has scoured back to 1976 to find footage and memorabilia of Freddie, to be used in the film 'The Great Pretender'
Footage includes rare interviews with Freddie, concerts, video shoots and personal material, much of it being seen for the first time. 'The Great Pretender' includes for the first time ever Freddie and Rod Stewart singing their demo for 'Take Another Piece of My Heart', an unreleased song from 1984, a snippet of the unreleased Michael Jackson / Freddie Mercury collaboration 'There Must Be More To Life Than This', and Freddie with the Royal Ballet 1979 '.
The dvd will also showcase 'The Great Pretender' has outtakes from the video shoots for 'I Want To Break Free', 'One Vision', 'Days of Our Lives', 'I Want It All', 'A Kind Of Magic', 'Princes of the Universe', 'Living on My Own', Born To Love You', 'Great Pretender', 'Made In Heaven', and 'Who Wants to Live Forever'.
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