Interview with Freddie Mercury in the week of
Live Aid
Wembley, 1985
D.W.: Why the rock stars or why particularly yourself… you filed recaptured
imagination? Why do you want to sing for Live Aid? I mean I...
F.M.: Because I think it's
a very good course, yes, and we have done things for charity before, but this
is like sort of man’s effort, community effort, I mean that all of us are doing
it together, it makes it much… we do an individual charity things in the past, but
I think it actually make it such a big event that we're all taking part – it
must mean something.
DW: So you <...>
FM: Yes, I think, actually caught drying up
things. It was while the things were… it started with the Band Aid right the
record and everything and we wanted on, and… I would like to done that too,
case I would like to participate, then when the American one came up, that was
superb, I think the way or lose of start all together, I think this is just,
this is a snowboarding to this, we just very nice and...
D.W.: [...]
F.M.: Yeah, and I think we
thought if the next big thing … would be happening, we should be left out,
because it sort of being in the country the right time, and if we seem to…
Queen seem to the sort of being various, pass the globe and… So, this time if we
made nothing, we say OK, we'd better make sure that on this date we should
free.
D.W.: Did you actually grow up in India?
F.M.: No, I’ve did… Well,
yes I was… I went to boarding school from the I was seven to fifteen.
D.W.: In India?
F.M.: Yes
DW: Did you see a lot of poverty there?
FM: Yes I think so. Yes,
yes… But over there it's sort of… you can only a sort of reflect poverty when
you're here, to be honest, if you there,
it’s a norm, it’s very easy, when you expect beggars on
street, and to people actually living there… or if you're brought up there – you actually
believe that's the way, way of life. It's like… to us it's very hard, so I
think… I think, when I was a young baby, right over there, I ,
I just… I was in English boarding school, and it's like… you know …
D.W.: Yes.
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