Alan Light interviews Brian May and Roger Taylor and asks about what made the band tick, and about Freddy Mercury's final days.
May: …When he couldn't stand up, he used to prop himself up against a desk, at the mic here, down a vodka…
Taylor: Have a big Stoli!
May: And do a blinding vocal. He just loved it, he absolutely loved it—I'll sing it till I fucking bleed! I remember doing the demo for "The Show Must Go On," with the guide vocal, some of it in falsetto because I couldn't reach the top notes, and I said, Fred, I don't know if this is going to be possible to sing. And he went, I'll fucking do it, darling, vodka down, and went in and killed it…
