the lighting is terribly difficult to emulate. i had taken 60 shots before i got these and the top photo for some reason has a different shade from the rest, while the one with the crossed arms was too dark. i thought i'd do this now while i still have my sister's 2 wigs with me which i should give back to her pretty soon. i'm flat top today because i had to wear a toque, a headband and my coat's hood to protect myself from the cold. it's ironic then that i get home and have to don these wigs which are hot on the head i'm sweating like a pig (yes, pigs do sweat, dogs don't).
back in the old country when i took my own apartment, my three younger siblings chose to come with me. the two girls loved the band 'queen' and were always playing their 45 of bohemian rhapsody. that was fine, i liked that song. then one day i came home and they were watching on tv a taped concert of queen where the lead vocalist was strutting on the stage wearing just a pair of shorts and whoa! what the heck was that bulge? for all my so-called open-mindedness, i was shocked at what i saw. my sisters who were 16 and 19 at the time, were still not exposed to much of the world as our father was rather strict. so i asked them not to watch anything "queen" until they're married. plus i wasn't into the heavy and noisy rock and roll music. i loved the beatles and their music but when they switched to those weird rock sound, i didn't like them much.
now there were songs that i would hear on the radio and i'd come to like. so whenever my young siblings would hear me sing them, they would giggle and mock me. "love of my life", for example, i used to sing to little bugsy when i'd put him to sleep. "crazy little thing called love" i had always thought was an elvis song. there were a few more that i liked which i didn't know were queen songs. so that last year when my sister and i went to see the movie "bohemian rhapsody" i was surprised that a lot of the songs i liked when i was young were queen songs. tarnation!
I loved reading your narrative! When Freddie Mercury died, I was lodging with a family who had 4 lovely kids and I discovered they didn't know who I was talking about, so took them up to my room and played them Queen's Greatest Hits, which they loved. Later that day I was informed in no uncertain terms that the parents had avoided exposing their kids to Queen.......oops!! Love this photo, you have done it very well.
Fantastic - Bohemian Rhapsody, the soundtrack to my teenage years. Enjoyed the film too, although I can remember crying my eyes out when I heard Freddie had died
I think I still have a Queen album from back in the day...