Category: Childhood & Imagination
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Freddie and the Story of the Sultan and Imperial Leather
The challenge of creating a project based on an artist’s book collection is that there is rarely any conclusive evidence that the books directly influenced their later work. In the case of Freddie Mercury’s fantasy book collection, there is some suggestion that these books informed Mercury’s early Queen lyrics, but the emphasis should remain firmly…
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The article that inspired The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
“I was thoroughly inspired… I did a lot of research on it and it inspired me to write a song about the painting, depicting what I thought I saw in it. It was just because I’d come through art college and I basically like the artist and I like the painting, so I thought I’d…