Martyn Jenkins, the lead singer of the Florida-based tribute band Absolute Queen, has a favorite Freddie Mercury story.
While visiting the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales, where Queen recorded “Bohemian Rhapsody,” founder Kingsley Ward led Jenkins to a courtyard outside. Ward pulled a tarpaulin off an old piano and told a tale: One day at 4 a.m., Mercury appeared at Ward’s doorstep, woke him, and asked him to wheel his piano into the courtyard — he had an idea for a song.
“Kingsley stood there in his pajamas,” Jenkins recalls. “He said Freddie was in a pink pair of pajama bottoms and a Donald Duck T-shirt, and he started right in the middle section of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ It was just him and Freddie, nobody else, and a few chickens in the moonlight, and he watched him start right in on that ‘I see a little silhouette of a man.’”
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