9.23.13 Adam has a great time at IHeartRadio Music Festival!

THANK YOU, butterknife! and stardust!
I'll be off da grid for a while and so I have to load my phone now. I already loaded mp4

I do not believe NME was ever a Freddie fan. NME's Nick Kent called their shows "a bucket of urine".

In 1974 NME reported:

"Freddie Mercury's a pretty regular guy. He uses regular Biba black nail varnish, regular black eye liner, and straightens his hair with regular electric tongs. You get the idea that he's bored with being told that Queen are going to be big - he reckons he's a star now, and wears that star apparent attitude like a well-fitted pair of trousers. Freddie's not bent, just camp. Ask him if he's queer and he'll turn round and say: 'I'm gay as a daffodil, dear.' He has a habit of saying 'dear; at the end of every sentence. Drummer Roger Taylor expounds, 'Freddie's just his natural self: just a poof , really.'"

Here is a reprint of an article from 1977 which is not friendly.
thequietus.com/articles/03351-classic-interview-with-freddie-mercury-and-queen-from-nme-1977
 
One choice bit: "My recent report of the Hamburg concert on their European tour had predictably not been received warmly in the Queen camp. And Mercury had taken exception to being described as a "rock 'n' roll spiv" who used the band "as a vehicle for an elaborate exhibition of narcissism". The basis of my criticism was that more importance was afforded their visual, than their musical presentation. And, simply, Mercury had led them over the top with his self-indulgence, to the detriment of the group performance."

The whole thing got worse over the Sun City concert. In 1984 Queen broke a United Nations cultural boycott by performing a series of shows at Sun City in Bophuthatswana, a homeland of (then) apartheid South Africa. Queen was placed on a United Nations list of artists who broke the boycott. They were criticized by many in the press and many fans in the US and UK in particular. One of the most vocal critics was NME.

As far as I can tell, NME has always been critical of Queen and has not covered them properly. So just add Adam to the list of people they do not cover properly.

how on earth have i missed that... did she add it later in the day on page one? thank you so much for bringing it to my attention and qt for writing it. why does the key for upper case not work on my phone? anyway my first stupid phone post obviously... qt writes about the way he may have changed the lyricsand i will not be thinking about that at work today promise . smiley face

I checked the lyrics of WATC -- Adam didn't change anything. He sings "I consider it a challenge before the whole human race and I ain't gonna lose". Those are the original lyrics. 

Sorry, but no mystery to solve.