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When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

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Mercury

Want

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

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Thought

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

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Majority

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

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Arguments

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

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Money

Being

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.