https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fpupBCL6TE&feature=PlayList&p=ADE22DC3C61927CC&playnext=1&index=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI
Witness greatness.
Greatness doesnt go with Gordon B. Hayward.
Damn insult.
That's not even prime freddie in the first video... the second one is bo-rhap and thats amazing. But in 86 when that first video was shot, Freddie's voice was starting to experience the effects of of cocaine and smoking (Elton John had the same problem, and now he can hardly sing in a high octave), and he may have had HIV at that time, (definitely by 88) and that may have already started attacking his system. Part of that mix was from 81 in the initial under pressure recording sessions, but by then smoking had probably taken an octave off of Freddie's high end, but it added some personality to the low end, I guess.
I think freddie's best vocal performances and the band as a whole was very early on from 71-75. For example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hyOH-__EKs
Around 7:00 is the best part...
Oh ya... go Flash Gordon.