44: Dave Clark (on Freddie Mercury)

44: Dave Clark (on Freddie Mercury)

Author: Classic Rock 92.1 (WMEQ-FM) August 15, 2019 Duration: 15:03
If you haven’t seen Bohemian Rhapsody, see it. This story picks up mere months after Queen’s iconic performance at Live Aid, when Freddie Mercury was recruited by his dear friend, Dave Clark (Dave Clark 5) to record a track for a star-studded concept album based on “Time”: A sci-fi, rock musical written by Clark. A few months later, Freddie Mercury returned to Abbey Road studios to record a second song: ‘Time.’

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