If we were to go back to 1970s London and see a Queen concert, we might find a man in his 20’s trying excitedly to get backstage after the encore. The man is from India and was a school friend of the lead singer Freddie Mercury. They haven’t met since they were both 16. He can’t wait to see Freddie’s face when he greets him. He makes it to the dressing room. There are a lot of people around. When the man finally gets face to face with his famous school friend, ‘Bucky’ Bulsara, he gets a shock. He will later tell another school friend Gita what happened: “Freddie just looked right through this poor fellow and said to him ‘I’m sorry but I’m afraid I just don’t know who you are’. That was when we all knew for sure that he wanted nothing more to do with us. The past was something he was determined to leave behind.”
Fabulous writing! Thank you for sharing this about Freddy. There are so many things I didn’t know.
Thanks Yila.