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Queen: A Seventies Bombshell

Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 9 November 1974

"PEOPLE THINK I'm an ogre at times. Some girls hissed at me in the street...'You devil.' They think we're really nasty. But that's only on stage. Off stage, well I'm certainly not an ogre." Freddie Mercury is a star, nevertheless. The first real rock supremo since Robert Plant or Rod Stewart.

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