Brian May and Freddie Mercury were bandmates in Queen for 21 years, until the vocalist passed away in 1991 at the age of 45. Although Mercury has been gone for 34 years, the guitarist told Rolling Stone that he still appears frequently in his dreams at night.
Brian May says Freddie Mercury still appears in his dreams
“It’s always very prosaic. It is never a surprise that he’s there. I don’t think ‘You shouldn’t be here.’ It’s just like he’s part of my life, as he always was,” Brian May said about Freddy appearing in his dreams.
During the same conversation, the band’s drummer Roger Taylor said they get a feeling that he is always with them. “Brian and I often think he’s in the room in the corner. Cause we know exactly what he’d say and what he’d think. Even though it was all those years ago now that we lost him.”
Since 1997, when John Deacon decided to retire from music and public life, Taylor and May are the only remaining active members of the band. The guitarist talked about their relationship with Deacon during the past decades, which is not direct.
Their relationship with John Deacon these days
“I think both Roger and I find it quite hard, but he doesn’t want to and we have to respect that. He wants to be separate. He’s still part of the destiny of the band, though. If we’re trying to make business decisions, he’s always consulted, but it happens through the management or through our accountant. We don’t speak, which is a shame, but we do know that we have his blessing. That’s important,” Brian May said.
The final Queen album with Freddie Mercury was “Innuendo”, released in 1991. But four years later, the band released “Made in Heaven”, a posthumous album with Mercury’s vocals. From 2004 to 2009, Taylor and May toured as Queen with Free and Bad Company’s singer Paul Rodgers. Names Queen + Paul Rodgers, the band released one studio record: “The Cosmos Rocks” in 2008. Since 2011 the band’s touring vocalist has been the American singer and songwriter Adam Lambert.