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“He was in this bar and did something he occasionally did, which was to lift someone up with his hand under their knee and an arm around their back,” recalls Freestone. In 1984 in Munich, the Queen singer suffered a mishap during a night out. Mercury himself once joked to an interviewer that “all I know is the swear words, like the German for ‘arse-licker’.” An accident during a night outįreestone says that Mercury was always in the company of friends when he went out and about. Though Freestone says that Mercury could utter a few simple greetings in German, he wasn’t able to speak much of the language.
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He would say that he could never eat ‘such a big ball of suet.’ He would just look at the dumplings with disdain.” The dumplings, he regarded as footballs rather than something to eat. Bavarian food comprises a lot of pork and roast duck, and that mix was heavy for him. He was a master at having a plate of food in front of him and being able to chop it up, move it round the plate and look as though he had eaten a lot. “He was one of these people who ate to live, rather than lived to eat. “He didn’t like much food anyway,” says Freestone. Mercury, who rarely needed more than a few hours of sleep, wasn’t a great fan of some of the local cuisine, though. People were still having fun eating the great street food after having been awake all night.” He would always finish that period by going to the Old Market, which was always packed. All of Munich was awake and celebrating for that weekend. “It was a chance to put on a costume for everyone, but for Freddie he would actually put on his ‘normal’ clothes – and the leather trousers and all that sort of stuff would end up being a costume. He enjoyed himself,” adds 64-year-old Freestone. “Very often, Freddie would start out with that on a Thursday night and would finally go to bed on the following Tuesday morning. He would sometimes go to the beer gardens with his music engineer Reinhold Mack – and the singer would especially enjoy the festivities of Munich’s Fasching Carnival.
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Once in Germany, Freddie Mercury quickly adapted to the friendly, social ways of Munich. He got reports of how the restoration was going and he was happy with that.” Adapting to Germany
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Being out of England meant that it didn’t figure in his thoughts that often. He bought that house in 1980 and it took five years to complete to his satisfaction. Another reason he was in Munich for so long, was that he was having his London home, Garden Lodge, renovated. He had friends there who closed ranks around him, so he could go wherever he wanted and do what he wanted without being so much in the public eye. “Freddie felt he was able to do what he wanted there. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.“I think there was a sense of freedom in Munich that Freddie Mercury didn’t get in London,” Surrey-born Freestone, speaking from his home in the Czech Republic, told uDiscover. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.