QUEEN's Freddie Mercury Wanted To Be Guitar Hero Like JIMI HENDRIX
November 6, 2011, 12 years ago
According to Smh.com.au, twenty years after he died, it's almost impossible to believe QUEEN's Freddie Mercury - arguably the greatest rock frontman ever, blessed with an almost operatic vocal range and a mesmerising stage presence - began as a second-rate guitarist.
''He wanted to be a guitarist like his hero, JIMI HENDRIX,'' says his biographer Lesley-Ann Jones, a former Fleet Street rock correspondent who toured with Queen in the group's heyday.
''But he realised he'd never have the same natural ability as Hendrix. Freddie was a piano player. That was the instrument he composed on.''
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