26.11 / 18:54
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Mercury
That time Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana’s infamous gay bar blowout became a musical
Royal Vauxhall set the supposed 1988 night to song and dance, contributing a little cheer to the memories of the beloved figures who met their ends too soon.If you aren’t familiar with the alleged story, it’s pretty fantastic:Freddie, Diana, British TV entertainer Kenny Everett and his co-star Cleo Rocos were sitting around watching The Golden Girls, like you do.They’d turned the sound off and were improvising the dialogue.“Kenny was Blanche, Diana was Dorothy, Freddie was Sophia and I was Rose,” Rocos recalls in her book The Power of Positive Drinking. “Kenny was Blanche, Diana was Dorothy, Freddie was Sophia and I was Rose – we were uncontrollable with laughter.