The latest episode of Queen the Greatest live looks back at Freddie Mercury’s ever-changing stagewear during the late Seventies into the early Eighties.
This time around three classic live performances of Roger Taylor’s Sheer Heart Attack are revisited with the singer’s costume style transforming from 1977 through 1979 and into 1981.
As noted: “We can see in this compilation, although the Glam Rock influence was receding, Freddie’s passion for Ballet continued to shine through before, like Brian, Roger and John, he embraced the more minimalist, but no less dramatic looks of the late 70s and early 80s.”
Queen’s reps shared: “In the episode’s first clip, filmed at Houston’s The Summit on December 11th, 1977, Queen contrast one of the hardest-rocking songs from that year’s News Of The World album with Freddie’s androgynous choice of a silver sequin catsuit slashed to the navel.
“Fast-forward to the Hammersmith Odeon on December 26th, 1979 – the final date of Queen’s Crazy Tour, for which the band were approached by Paul McCartney to raise funds for the people of war-torn Kampuchea – and Freddie is unrecognisable, performing the song stripped to the waist in red leather pants.
“Finally, at the Montreal Forum in November 1981, Freddie takes a minimalist approach with red neckerchief and clubbing vogue tiny white shorts. No wonder, as the singer once stated: “It’s not a performance you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show…”
