Freddie Mercury The Great Pretender
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No one will ever compare to Freddie ❤
He's one in a million or is he a million in one. I don't care he's infinitely talented and we miss him so much.
Freddie could sing the dictionary and it would be a Top 10! There will never be another Freddie Mercury 💔 RIP Freddie
This was a cover and a tribute to the older songs but maybe the great pretender had a meaning for Freddie because he was sort of one,in his personal life he was a shy quiet person.in his party life he was flamboyant and out there.In his professional life he was a artist like no other.A perfectionist with the ultimate crowd control.So maybe he was sort of pretending sometimes.
He called himself the great pretender!
Love how it includes so many nods to other videos.
This was amazing! The behind the scenes peaks of this video are hilarious! Roger Taylor is one of the "back-up" singers and watching him picking outfits with the others is too amazingly funny!
Freddie was the red headed backup singer. Roger the blind.
I've never seen this video before. I love the original of "The Great Pretender", but yes, Freddie KILLED THIS.
Freddie was always a fan of Motown.
Your open mind and warm reaction to this video is moving. If Freddie had made it to 2020 I believe he'd find some creative, innovative, and uniquely "Freddie" way of positively helping or distracting his fans around the world during this pandemic. He always had a brave, smiling face and "show must go on" attitude for the public, despite his private battles. We can miss his presence, but celebrate reactions like yours here. Thank you.
@Mireille Blacke Exactly what you said!!!
I loved the rest of the band,dragging up and being the backing singers LOL
actually the back up singers were Roger Taylor and Freddie (in red) and one of Freddie's friends named Peter Straker
Man oh man, there is no one like the late, great Freddie Mercury. Love this and I feel like he made this song his own with his powerful vocals as well as the theatrical flare he added. Totally agree with you Ty, sometimes a cover is better than the original. This just made my day, listened to this as I am preparing to go to work, so thank you for the great pick. Blessings💕
Thanks always enjoy your videos. Always loved Freddie Mercury and Queen.Still love Queen.
Thank you very much!
A great cover by The Great Freddie, there will never be another like him..so many have tried to get to his standard but always fell short..A wonderful homage as well to the Queen days..awesome vocals and showed his love of motown..true that some covers can surpass the original and Freddie showed that perfectly in this Video...TY for your honest reaction as always
Keep Safe Keep Strong My Dear Friend
Freddy Mercury always wanted to work on solo projects. This song/video was recorded in 1987 as a tribute to the many personas he played with Queen. 1987 was also the year he was diagnosed with AIDS. BTW...He shaved off his mustache because he thought it would look better for the ballet sequence ♥️
I didn’t know that about the moustache! Thanks!!
Freddie is always great'
Love Freddies voice
I love any song Freddie Mercury sings in.
Back in 1971 i attended job corps in McKinney, Texas. I was the assistant to the activitty director for a few months and he told me that some frirends of his was going to perform for us and he wanted me to help set up the stage and help them when they arrived. It turned out his friends were the Platters and I really had a blast helping them when I could. Hearing them perform in person was great and I remember that expertence fondly. Freddy Mercury covered the song well and I liked the video .
I think that more than anything this video, which was done during the period of time he was pursuing a solo career outside of Queen in the late '80s, may have referred to both his life and his musical career. Remember, he was living during the time when it really wasn't ok to be gay, and in England had been illegal until 1967 (the year I graduated from high school), only 5 years before Queen released it's first album. and he never "officially" came out and didn't "announce" his AIDs until the day before he died. His flamboyant performance style was also pretty far from his private personality. In his solo work he actually worked under the pseudonym "Larry Lurex" for early work (in the '70s) outside of Queen. My own opinion was that this song was about the ways he had to "pretend" in his life.
This Music Video was a ''homage'' you can say, To all his old Music Video's he did. React to *_Brian May - Resurrection (Official Music Video)._* That's the Most underrated thing That Brian May (the Guitarist of Queen) ever had. That's Brian May's Solo song and it is really really underrated and it has to have a reaction on TH-cam. It really deserved it. Brian is Playing the Guitar and Lead singing there of course.
Loved the backing girls..ha ha...Freddie, Roger Taylor and Peter Straker. They had so much fun..
So glad to see you back to reacting to a Queen/Freddie Mercury video! Love that Roger joined in to the backup singers. Roger makes a gorgeous girl! Good thing he was a "renowned" ladies man if you know what I mean! This was one of Freddie's great solo projects. If you haven't reacted to "I was Born to Love you" by Freddie (not Queen) or "Love me like there's no tomorrow", please do!!!
These lyrics, at this time in his life, meant everything. Still makes me tear up 😢
What a lose.Miss him so much!! Amazing always. Love all his music.
Thank-you
An excellent cover of the old Platters classic, and those fabulous ladies singing backup - stunning!
My favorite video of Freddie..The Great Pretender ❤
Whitney Houston is a good example with the Dolly Parton song.
So I had to go listen to the original. And I do agree he really does give this song a wonderful edge.
love this, but also quite sad. who today can do that? have THAT voice, be charismatic and fun . feel like today there is a real dearth of true entertainers.
Great version
absolutely about his private life. Watched the documentary Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story and the only documentary to have Mary Austin who Freddie considered his wife talking about him. They talked about the making of this video also. Really a great watch that you can find on youtube in parts.
I have never even heard that Freddy did this cover! wow! Thanks for showing it!
The reason Freddie cut the mustache off, was to be one of the background singers...in the black dress and red spikey hair!
Good version freddie vocals platters classic 🇬🇧🇨🇷👏
Love this. Thank you for reacting to this.
Glad you enjoyed
My opinion is that this cover is just as good as the original. There has been lots of tunes that have been done better by the cover artist then the original. Elvis covered a lot of songs made famous from other artists. Whitney Houston did with I will always love u. I dont think Dolly is mad since all royalties went to :her. Great thoughts on this Ty
I know that you are a Christian so please say a prayer for my husband. He loved Queen, watching the movie over and over. He died 6 days ago on Sunday morning. I found him like that. I was just numb for days. We have to wait until we can have a military funeral. My husband served in the Vietnam War and was exposed to Agent Orange. For the last 10 years Agent Orange has been slowly destroying his internal organs. It finally killed him with a heart failure. His heart was severely damaged. He also was a police officer, undercover officer for DEA, City Council member, and finally Mayor of Wyandotte, Michigan. He was still on his third term as mayor. His whole life was of service to this country. It’s been a nightmare for our two sons, our granddaughters, myself, and everybody that knew him. Agent Orange is still killing veterans and is passed down through their genes four generations! This poison never should have happened!! If you see this, I thank you for your prayers. 💔🙏
Absolutely! And so sorry for your loss.
Modern Renaissance Man Thank you very much. I forgot to put his name, Joseph R Peterson. 🙏💔
Sorry about your loss he seemed like a great person.
@@tomatoman1055 Thank you for your kind words. 👍🙋🏻♀️
Made my mom watch this. She said it's good but not like my original.
I’m so agree with you, nowone can do it better than the original.........NOWONE CAN FILL FREDDIE’S shoos EVER......NOWONE!!!!
That’s not what he said, he said he doesn’t believe that nobody can do it better than the original
Beautiful ❤
First time hearing him sing it. I thought it was really good
Love Freddy Mercury thanks had not heard this
Freddie did a wonderful rendition of this song but no one can compare to the Platters with the great Tony Williams as the lead vocal. Beautiful voice and great harmony.
Great song. This is def better than the original. And I adore the video, they had so much fun making it. It's very nostalgic. It doesn't really mean much if you haven't watched the videos he recreated. I think he had recently gotten his diagnosis here so I'm sure it was a good distraction.
So hard to watch - he wasn’t long for this world xx
I think the reason someone is always qualified to do a 'better' performance is because a performance can be easily dictated by how ones emotion is captured, felt, and conveyed with a song. One might write a song that is beautiful, and also have it comiing from an honest, compassionate, and soulful place. There may be another who listens to this same song, and by circumstance, it holds a lot more weight emotionally. That emotional weight can then translate to their performance, place in time, and show their pure embodiment of what it means to them. At this point its not even a competition, its just an appreciation, and intake of feelings for what the song means to them, and an emotional release for everyone to here. I know you didnt say this, but its easy to mix up better with a competitive and technical attitude... i believe it can be more accurate to say that sometimes a person can capture a heavier and more powerful emotion even if its not written by themselves. It doesnt take away from the original, it pays homage to it.
I've never seen this one
Another example, which you have reacted to already, about cover versions being better than the original, is Disturbed's powerful cover of Simon and Garfunkel's 'The Sound of Silence'. As for Freddie, another powerhouse performance.
I love Freddies version of Beach Boys / Ronettes i can hear.music. its beautiful
He looked like he has gone back in time in the 1979 he looks exactly like he looked in crazy little thing called love
Yes publicly he was all the things in the vid but behind the pretense??
Freddie was the best.
He made this song his with this cover.
Did you hear living on my own? Please do. Thank you
For me, this is far superior to the original by the Platters but then I grew up on this version, this is the version I heard first.
Also whenever I watch the video I always have a little chuckle to myself, Freddie predicting the Spice Girls before the spice girls existed, lol 😂 always gets me
Freddy Mercury could cover anything better than anyone! 😁
I would love to see you react to 'love me like there's no tomorrow' video!!! it made me cry real hard:))
The Great Pretender was the first song I ever learned the words to but Freddie knocked it out of the ballpark. No comparison. It.makes me sad though he was really sick when he made this video. Such a waste.
lol, was that his band dressed in drag ? fun video
That was Freddie, Roger Taylor (Queen's drummer), and a good friend, Peter Straker.
Roger in woman😍
Freddy never let anyone tell him what too do.case closed x
There's another one same video but it also includes the making of it you know the Freddie and Rodger and Freddies friend dressing up as women and getting shaved it's really hilarious
Freddie can cover anything and it's gonna be better than the original!!! When he sings he makes me smile!!! 🙂🙂 When he sang the last part gave me chills!!! R.I.P. FREDDIE!!! YOU ARE LOVED AND MISSED!!! I hope that you have a wonderful and blessed day my friend and please stay safe!!! 🙂🙂 🐧🐧
Listen to The Platters " Great Pretender " -..................
I think he did it better then the original just my opinion I agree with you
Hey Ty, I would like you to react to the extended version of this it's great, thank you.
Most of the time the original recording turns out better than the covers. And this is yet another example of that. Tony Williams OWNS Freddy Mercury. No contest.
Rod Stewart also does a great cover of this song
Dude, Steam Powered Giraffe's cover of Rhianna's Diamond is awesome. I consider Rhianna to be the cover artist for that song after SPG did it.
That's Roger is the blond wig.
Only the Platters can sing this song.
They would say 'What a load of c**p!'
Would you let me know a reaction to Freddie , In my Defence, seems like he's praying
Would really like to hear a modern black mans reaction to Blue Mink - Melting Pot. Back in the day it was seen as a song about if we all had the same skin colour things would be a whole lot better for everyone. More recently it has become somewhat of a pariah disliked by many but i still think it's message has value. On the subject of cover versions have a listen to Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and then one of the x factor contestants Matt Cardle
Freddie mercury, whitney houston, righteous brothers all did covers and it was much better than the original in my opinion❤️
Freddie was nothing if not OTT.
Freddie was sick in this video. The video is great though. Roger is one of the drag girls lol
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Done very nicely, But I like the original better. By the Platters
Gnr live and let die cover from paul McCartney
As much as I love Freddie, this just is not for me when I love the original so much 🤷🏻♀️
What about Shinedowns version of Simple Man? To me he killed it with the vocals.🤘🏼Freddie was the Great Pretender. Cause he really wasn’t like that. BTW does anyone know who the blonde singer is? 🥁
Roger
O.O If someone couldn't "cover" someone else's song......how in the world many songs would we have by now? LOL
If people did't cover other people's songs, there would be no way to honor the original.
I prefer the original :)
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