Interview 1987 (Rudi Dolezal)
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D –
Freddie, in the last couple of weeks and months you were working on solo stuff.
Can you tell us a little bit about what you have been doing?
F – Yes, last couple of weeks I have been working with
this amazing woman. She is a big operatic star, her name is Montserrat Caballe.
She comes from Barcelona. And she just called up a few weeks ago and said she
would like to sing with me. So I fell flat on the floor and thought “Oh, my
God”. But I loved her for years. And I think it worked when I WENT TO Barcelona
recently. I did a TV show and they asked me. I said “She’s the best singer in
the world. And I’d like to be able to sing with her”. So she must have seen it.
She called up the office and said she’d like to do something. Last night she
sang one of my songs at the Royal Opera House. It’s amazing. I’m going into
opera, forget rock’n’roll.
D – Is
this a new experience, an exciting experience?
F – Absolutely. It’s just a challenge, actually. It’s
gonna be great because I’ve never thought of writing songs in that way. Now she
said she wants to do duets with me – I have to think in a totally different
way, and actually… I sure the opera critics will slam it, but this is something
that’s a good challenge, at this time in life.
D – Is it
true that you are planning to do a whole album with her?
F –Yes. I went and I saw her a week ago, and I just
thought maybe one song on a duet, and she said thinks like “Only one song? Are
you sure? You only want to do one song?”. And I said: “Let’s see how we get on.
If you like more of my music”… And she said: “How many songs does a normal
rock’n’roll album have?” And I said “Something like ten” – “We’ll do ten songs,
then”. So, you know. She just said: “Write ten songs tomorrow”.
D –So you
have to write something Spanish?
F – Yes, things like that. Because I mean, I said “Yes,
I’ll write the songs. And you’ll have to come in the studio and try out
things”. So she said, she looked up her schedule, “I have three days to spare
in May”. And she thinks she can just come in and do it, but that’s the day they
work. So she thinks in three days she’ll come in and sing the whole. So I’ve
got to have it all prepared. But I think three days it pushing it.
D – You
have a great success with your solo single the Great Pretender in England. Can
you tell us when you had the idea to pick this song?
F – Yes, I’ve always wanted to do a cover version a
long time ago, and you can’t do that with Queen, we just write our own
material, and I always had that in my head. And this song was the one I’ve
always wanted to do. So last Christmas, well before Christmas, I went into the
studio to try it out, a
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