From Singing to Screaming ©
By
Michael Casey
I was struggling to think of a title for tonight’s talk when the pain
monster descended, I may need to stop and scream and slap on the
Movelat as I’m in lots of pain right now. My left shoulder as usual
being the main culprit, it’s 6 years since my major pains started by the
way. Anyway I’m going to talk a bit about Freddie Mercury, I saw a
documentary called The King of Queen. The new docu/drama 2018 film is
also doing great at the cinema.
When I saw the documentary today I was struck by many things, one
fact I learnt was that AIDS could incubate for 10years. Also with
retrovirals you can live almost as long as somebody with out HIV/Aids.
Not something I’d talk about, but because of Freddie I have to mention
it. What I really want to talk about was his talent, his enunciation, or
how he spoke so very posh. He was a fan of Sinatra, aren’t we all?
Sinatra enunciates so clearly, you can understand what he’s saying, he
isn’t mumbling into his beard or anything like that.
So enunciation is so very important, it is this clarity that gives
power to the words, in actual fact it magnifies them. When we had that
MP speak in favour of Theresa May’s Brexit for the first time, the Press
said it was like having Oliver or some other famous actor speak on her
behalf. And it was so true. However when he tried it a 2nd time he did not sound as powerful. The Magic wasn’t there the 2nd time around.
So there is Magic and Performance, when you get it right then you
really do get Power and Majesty. I have my own Teacher’s voice, just as
my sister-in-law has her Lawyer’s voice. When I recorded 200 or so of my
stories www.michaelgcasey.typepad.com as usual I did everything in one take, just as I write in one take, usually in one hour for the writing.
But reading aloud is a different skill to writing them down, creating
them in the first place. So I hope the recordings got better as I
gained more practice. It did take me a year to learn how to write in the
first place and that was after 20 years of radio4 listening. So 200 5
min or so recordings may not be enough practice.
You may be relieved to know I don’t plan on recording any more of my
2000 pieces, why, because it is so tiring, it is a performance after
all. But back to Freddie Mercury, his skill was not just the enunciation
but the crowd control, no I don’t mean he dressed up as a Policeman
with a stick to control people. What he did was Magic, It’s a Kind of
Magic, you will no doubt agree. On the documentary it said he knew Music
as a conductor knows music, it was in his brain, just as God enjoys
Nature, first let there be a gentle breeze, then a dawn chorus, followed
by a flight of birds, followed by oranges changing into blues across
the morning skies.
So with Freddie his innate love of music and sound, led to wonderful
meals of music. Theatre was big in him too, hence the videos, one person
on the documentary stated that Bohemian Rhapsody created
MTV before it even existed. They couldn’t do the song live on Top Of The Pops so they made the video, and the rest is History.
Freddie’s love of Opera and Sinatra made him a much more rounded
person, he wasn’t just one dimensional. The band Queen were also made of
of very clever people, Brain May did you know is now a real Phd in
Astrophysics. The point is if you are open to new things and don’t look
down in your own ditch, then you have a greater understanding of your
own field, don’t just plant potatoes because you only ever plant
potatoes. Plant a few vegetables, and have an apple tree and roses
around your cottage door, have a goose as a burglar alarm too. Yes these
are metaphors, but you could be equally as happy by being literal too.
Sing clearly in your life, and then your voice, your skill, your love
will scream out to high heavens. Things do Transcend, Freddie singing
with an Opera Dive, that is an obvious one. But a friendship with the
janitor and you are a barrister, the bus driver and the police
inspector. The deli owner and everybody. Just as Music screams out and
demands attention and leads to Love, so quality Music touches all our
souls. That’s what Freddie did with his voice, he touched us, he moved
us he inspired us.
We can’t copy his voice, or even his life, but we can all in some
small way create a little bit of Magic as we go about our daily life.
Maybe we should lead singing on the Friday night bus after we’ve been
clubbing. Or just enunciate clearly our daily life, let there be no
confusion, no risk of not saying. I Love You, I Love You, I Love you,
then we’ll all go to bed happy. Whether the bed is a loving bed, or the
bed of roses that grows on all our graves. Rest in Peace Freddie.
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