#tim staffell

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Thank you for coming to my TED talk

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Today - July 18th, 1970 - Queen Story!

Queen played at Imperial College, London, UK with Mike Grose on bass

- This is first public performance in London and first concert accredited with the name Queen -

During this show, the group announced to the small crowd (about fifty people) that the singer Tim Staffell had left the band and that their new frontman is Freddie Mercury

📸 Pic 2: In this note taken from Queen's first BBC session Freddie still using his birth name in 1973

- Mike Grose, Queen's first bassist dies in 2019

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HOW did we not know this before? Picture it! Brian, Roger, Freddie and Tim in a cave in Cornwall singing harmonies spontaneously and listening to the echoes…

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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018, Bryan Singer)

16/08/2024

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I wish Queen had re-recorded April Lady, like I love Brian’s version for Smile but Freddie would have done NUMBERS on that song

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55 years of Maylor/Smile

prompt: photoshoot 📸 @55yearsofmaylor

medium: pencil on paper

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Queen in Cornwall: postscript

This page isn't strictly a postscript, but more a way of recording information that comes to light after the publication of the book.  Firstly during the afternoon at The Driftwood (when 'Queen in Cornwall' was launched as an initial print run of 200) our guests said a few things of interest that are not in the book. I particularly remember Jill Johnson saying that she cut Roger Taylor's hair into the 60's mod bob featured in the photo on p126. Also Mike Grose explaining that he was on Porthpean beach when he first heard Queen on national radio and realised that they were going to be successful. The day after the party/launch Neil Battersby sent me this e-mail which I thought interesting and worth posting:  Rikki and I had a great time today at the Driftwood, meeting old friends and reliving memories. In looking though the book two things come to mind: 1. Pages 37 and 41 in your book show a school photograph. The boy to the left of Roger is not Mike. It is Jeff Webb, who was also in the same class as Roger (1S). 2. A fan asked if we drank a lot at the gigs. The answer is "no", but it did remind me of a fact that I certainly had forgotten. After we had packed up we did our best to find a milk vending machine on the drive home. These are now extinct, but in those days were very common. We were told to drink a lot of milk in those days. Roger used them the most, referring to them as "metal cows". (x)

From the QUEEN IN CORNWALL blog online, which was created to "document the musicians and events" for the Queen in Cornwall book by Rupert White. (Published 2011, available on Amazon)

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RB for sample size and all that

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My work for @55yearsofmaylor

A bit of context:

Roger comes from Cornwall, the land of Arthurian legend and mischievous pixies, and Brian has always been sceptical of this.

Until 1970, when he opens his eyes, he doesn't know where he is. A minute ago, he was standing backstage at the gig that Roger's mother had prepared in Cornwall, arguing with him over a few drum beats that he thought Roger had played incorrectly. And now he woke up, with moss-covered stone walls and plants all around him. And suddenly a message appeared before his eyes: a picture. Appearing in the picture is Roger in ancient clothes, looking older than the Roger Brian had just argued with. Below there are words encrusted in gold: "He was chosen to become The Once and Future Drummer".

Roger gets better every day, gradually becoming the master of drumming. From that day on, during their 55 years together, Brian never had to question Roger's qualifications again.

Close-up and non-filter

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Tim Staffell and Smile - Mojo Magazine July 2023

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i'm currently home alone, listening to Smile on vinyl. I feel like I'm in the 70s, the vibes, the slightly metal can quality, oooohh this is delightful

on top of that my cat's on my chest

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Tim Staffel born in London, 24 February 1948

🔸Staffel revealed how Mercury, then known as Farrokh Bulsara, would tell his schoolmates: 'Some day I'm going to be a superstar.'

'[Freddie] was a civilised guy, not rough round the edges,' added Tim. 'I never ever saw him swear or say a bad word at anybody.

'Some people's egotism is offensive but not with Freddie. He was always a lovely, lovely guy. There was none of that avarice for fame.'

- During the late 1960s, Tim Staffell was the frontman of the band Smile, alongside guitarist Brian May.

However in 1970, Tim took the decision to leave the band for another outfit called Humpy Bong, forcing the exiting members to recruit Freddie Mercury as singer.

While Humpy Bong was over within five years, Queen would go on to become one of the best-selling bands of all time.

He added: 'I was desperately envious. The only thing I'd say in my defence is that I was never destructively jealous. But by God I was envious.'

Tim, who now lives in a semi-detached home in Richmond, south-west London, had been schoolfriends with Mercury at Ealing Art College.

22 Nov 2018

➡️ Full Article ↘

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6416945/Meet-singer-quit-Queen-Freddie-Mercury-took-over.html

Pic n.1: 28 april 1970 - Queen, Mike Grose (was Queen's first bass player, died on March 8, 2019), Roger Taylor and Freddie Mercury at Imperial College, London, UK

📸 Photo © Doug Puddifoot

📸 Pic n.2: Tim Staffel

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Smile’s version of Doing Alright is better than the revised Queen version.

I’ll die on that hill.