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Feb 20, 2026 12:43 PM
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PlainlyPuzzled
The voice
Cranbananarama
He looks so different without the mustache.
lildude52ca
who is that?
unclefishbits
That's Pee-wee Herman versus Tony Hale
SedatedSl0th
His what? Freddy Mercury’s what?!
Dogfacedboy
Then he smoked a few cocks on his way out.
zFUBARz
Guard in the background is fucking stoked to see Freddie
lindabelchersfirstcousin
AtmaDarkwolf
not really on topic here, but god damn did Rami Malek fit his role so well in that movie. Was worth watching multiple times.
orp0piru
firlefranz
Zetor
Those Were the Days of Our Lives
MurdockTheHawk
They've flown in the swiftness of time
vaiperu
I never seen him so vulnerable like in the music video, makes me cry each time only thinking about it ...
certainlynotaserialkiller
the man has died, the legend will live forever.
daguq
Freddie Mercury's what?
mikeatike
A Made Man.
Type17
They were going to write "Freddie Mercury's final public appearance was on Feb...", but then changed it, and missed the extra <'s> that should have been removed(?)
ConfusedConda
Freddie Mercury is made his final appearance...
SomethingSomethingUserName123
Grancis
Made.
EmilyPseu
https://media1.giphy.com/media/1ziYAKJRHZ4zymDXpS/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe916ocxunnltgktxkzh8tw1hphh3mt2xudyodpeaixt&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
jbrightmans
are you fucking sorry?
MynameisRuben
Hehe I get it
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
I assume it's an abbreviation of "has" ?
daguq
The present perfect makes no grammatical sense here.
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
None whatsoever, I agree. But it's the only thing that might fit...
SubTrout
Reportedly, Brian May was able to show Freddie a VHS tape of the Wayne's World scene with Bohemian Rhapsody shortly before his death, and Freddie loved it and gave it his blessing. It's something we can't know if it's 100% true, but I really hope it was to give him some positivity about just how beloved he and his music still were in his last days.
shorey66
That scene really brought the sing back into the public eye. It's a real shame he didn't get to see the public reaction to it. The original meme
GemsAreOutrageousTrulyTrulyTrulyOutrageous
I'm certain he knew it'd get a revival. Everyone in the band are banger songwriters in their own right and they dappled in all sorts of genres beyond just stadium and pop rock.
circlebreaker
Matrelith
This is the true story of how Freddie met John, Brian and Roger.
causality
Wild to think that if he'd contracted HIV only five years later he'd likely still be alive today.
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
His death, and humanitarian concerts and what not after made a huge leap in that progress!
jesuisgur
He lived in the fast lane, with Fast Cars...
Type17
The song 'Don't stop me now' was written by Freddie about his love for fast living - it's my favourite Queen song, but it always brings a twinge of sadness, knowing that he probably contracted HIV in that period of his life.
SubTrout
That five years wasn't just the gradual progress of medicine though. I'd say more of if government systems at the time didn't treat HIV/AIDS like "the gay disease" and deliberately let gay people die rather than acknowledge it as a global health crisis, he'd still be alive today.
Gerokeymaster
And sadly, it took big, high profile deaths like his to really raise awareness among the general public to the point that governments finally had to start doing something about it.
delecti
Yeah, it's not wild to say that Ronald Reagan killed Freddie Mercury.
SubTrout
He didn't directly cause it, but basically gave it a thumbs up. Reagan's legacy is some of the worst poison that will never stop damaging America for what it did and what it set up for the future in so many ways.
pgdave
Trump: Hold my beer
delecti
It's a perfect example of "social murder". Reagan didn't pull the trigger, but he did set up the dominos and then knocked over the first one.
madman434
Gotdamn, that man knew how to dress himself.
Billis75
What's funny is that both he and Rob Halford (gay singer for Judas Priest) both started dressing the way people at the gay bars dressed (Freddie as a Castro Clone, and Rob from the leather bars), and then when they performed, the fans didn't catch on and just thought it was cool. Then all the metal crowd started dressing like gay leathermen without knowing it.
GemsAreOutrageousTrulyTrulyTrulyOutrageous
As a clueless heterosexual male, what is with all the leather straps in the gay culture? Are they just handles? Places to hang accessories??
Billis75
Part of it is fashion (like people who wear leather vests and pants). It shows people you may be into a more kinky sub/dom sort of thing, or you just want to fit in at the club. The leather armbands around your bicep tell people if you're a top (left arm), bottom (right arm), or down for whatever (both arms). If you wear a leather harness (those are straps around shoulders and chest), part of that is fashion, but part is they're handles to grab during sex.
Billis75
This was more important decades ago because you didn't have an internet profile to tell people what you were into sexually, and you don't want to wear a big sign, so you did things like clipping your keys to a belt loop (on the left for top, on the right for bottom), and colored handkerchiefs (I don't think this was widespread, people know it but not many actually did it), each color stood for a sex act, and left back pocket/right back pocket to show top/bottom.
GemsAreOutrageousTrulyTrulyTrulyOutrageous
Fair enough. Thanks.
BusterWinkmeyer
I am today years old and this is the first time I've seen him without his mustache
FatForYou
I feel violated
factcheckmate
https://youtu.be/Y1fiOJDXA-E?si=F4kwmyU0v51nBtbb
unclefishbits
Pee-wee Herman versus Tony Hale
worldrecordstudios
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dDZ4a2NvZmYwdzB2em5ldG5maHg5d3YxcTR4eTF2cGMxb3Zmc2lkdyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/Ase7L4MjavtBb0L3cx/200w.webp
firlefranz
aShogunNamedMarcus
Hopefully he and his mustache were reunited in Valhalla
johnxbear
The superman effect going strong because I 100% didn't recognize him without it.
MoonRiverFrost
I had to look at his eyes and the shape of his hairline/head (cranium?).
superanth
But he still has his scarf.
wadatahmydamie
Possibly to hide the carcinomas, which is one of the reasons Klaus Nomi wore stuff on his neck
Nuppiz
It's also why he had that rough-looking beard in most of the music videos shot in 1989 and 1990 (all of the videos from The Miracle and Headlong from Innuendo).
JustSomePersonThere
I was not aware, thank you.
LurkMasterP
The mustache showed up late, actually.
powwerbottom
JFC What a babe
unluckyandbored
Fun fact: Fans HATED IT. They hated it so much that fan letters sometimes included razors so he could shave it off.
BusterWinkmeyer
I am today years old seeing him without his mustache for the second time
LiarLiarPantsUntier
And here I am, today years old.
sorryforsayingthat
We played that album constantly when it came out. It was an eight track with the required matchbook to keep it from skipping
TheGhostofElizabethShue
This look also some ways in, only May kept the big hair torch burning.
HandoB4Javert
"I don't want to keep doing my hair like this, but... Brian May"
TheGhostofElizabethShue
yamsonyamsonyams
Irrelevant and informative - a rare combo!
SedatedSl0th
How is that very relevant photo irrelevant?
yamsonyamsonyams
The comment and photo are velvet to the very comment to which they were replying.
It doesn’t have any bearing at all on whether the original comment had ever seen Friday without a mustache
LurkMasterP
I was just providing some info, guessing that people who had only seen Freddy with a mustache may have discovered Queen later in their run, when he was mustache free for about the first half of his career. It was fun watching their style change from the glam rock era into disco and then the wild 80s.
bad1080
rip king
GemsAreOutrageousTrulyTrulyTrulyOutrageous
The greatest showmen and queen that has ever lived.
solrev
https://i.imgur.com/5fUwONE
DeadnCold
With Prince on guitar.
solrev
Yeeeeeeesssss
Mithelen
*Queen
johncooper78
Queer
YeahThisExactly
The King of Queen
PolitiCat
The King and Queen of Queen.
VoidForScreaming
Starring Kevin James!