![]() Queen already sounds like Queen, and, before you know it, the boys have a manager, a contract, an album, and a cascade of wealth. Bingo! The resulting lineup, now graced with John Deacon (Joseph Mazzello) on bass, lets rip onstage, with Freddie tearing the microphone from its base to create the long-handled-lollipop look that will stay with him forever. Mercury approaches two musicians, Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy) and Brian May (Gwilym Lee), in a parking lot, having enjoyed their gig learns that their group’s lead singer has defected and, then and there, launches into an impromptu audition for the job. ![]() If the film is to be trusted (and one instinctively feels that it isn’t), the birth of Queen was smooth and unproblematic. This being a rock movie, his parents are required to be conservative and stiff, and he is required to vex them by going out at night to see bands. We then flip back to 1970, and to the younger Freddie-born Farrokh Bulsara, in Zanzibar, and educated partly at a boarding school in India, but now dwelling in the London suburbs. That was the talent-heavy occasion on which Queen, fronted by Mercury, took complete command of Wembley Stadium and, it is generally agreed, destroyed the competition. “Bohemian Rhapsody” starts with the Live Aid concert, in 1985. ![]() That explains the diva-like throb of his singing, and we are left to ponder the other crowd-wooing rockers of his generation do they, too, rely upon oral eccentricity? Is it true that Rod Stewart’s vocal cords are lined with cinders, and that Mick Jagger has a red carpet instead of a tongue? What happens inside Elton John’s mouth, Lord knows, although “Rocketman,” next year’s bio-pic about him, will presumably spill the beans. More space in my mouth, and more range.” Basically, he’s walking around with an opera house in his head. In “Bohemian Rhapsody,” a new bio-pic about him, Mercury (Rami Malek) reveals all: “I was born with four more incisors. ![]() That was the secret of Freddie Mercury, or, at any rate, of the singular sound he made. ![]()
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