Freddie Mercury – 20 years on | Andrew Woods

One of the amazing things about the Queen frontman was that he successfully evaded the rock world's gaydarHard rock and "sewing" seem incongruous bedfellows. Nevertheless, if you were a headbanger in the 70s and 80s, chances are you spent more than a couple of evenings by the fire, threading needle through patch affixing three dimensional, steel-hued logos and images of fire-breathing skulls to your jacket. If you were a rocker, you were also a seamster.I had a Queen patch on my denim jacket in ...

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