Jim was at the bar with his lover, John Alexander, drinking from a can of lager. When John went to the lavatory, Freddie pushed his way through the crowd and offered to buy Jim a drink. When John returned, Jim told him someone had just tried to chat him up. Eighteen months later, on Saturday, March 23rd, , Jim had been out drinking for most of the day.
Bohemian Rhapsody: 'Being in Queen was like a huge cock fight' WATCH Freddie spill all
The real story of Queen legend Freddie Mercury and his Irish lover
Bohemian Rhapsody now rules the roost as the top movie in America , as every true Queen fan could have told you it would. Spoilers ahead for those who haven't seen it. And while that's great for the band's legacy — proof once again that its music has universal appeal — it also means that a surprising amount of untruths are now enshrined as the biography best known to the moviegoing public. Before you dismiss that as a necessary evil of storytelling, consider this: When you dig into the band's actual history, the true version of their tale is, in almost every instance, far more dramatically interesting. Queen was larger than life, and certainly larger than the standard-issue music biopic cliches that populate Bohemian Rhapsody. In the movie, a shy young Farrokh Bulsara calling himself Freddie, but not yet Mercury introduces himself to Brian May and Roger Taylor, guitarist and drummer of a band called Smile. Smile's lead singer Tim Staffell has quit to join another group called Humpy Bong fact check: true.
View: PDF. A man sidled up to him at the bar in Heaven, the London gay club, and asked him what he would like to drink. Mercury would often say that by way of an introduction.
First there were the three years that Sacha Baron Cohen was attached to the role of Freddie Mercury; then there were the three years the surviving band members and the comedian spent sniping over that in the press. But even these missteps would quickly be swallowed up by all sorts of other controversies. He was then replaced by Dexter Fletcher, who remains uncredited as a director due to DGA rules since Singer completed nearly all of the movie.