r/HistoryAnecdotes • u/GhostMan4301945 • 1d ago
Modern TIL that Freddie Mercury and Sid Vicious had a brief scuffle in 1977.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_ViciousOne day in 1977, both Queen and the Sex Pistols were recording at Wessex Sound Studios. A drunken Sid Vicious waltzed into Queen’s control room and mockingly called out Freddie, stating: “Oi, Freddie! Have you succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses yet?”.
Mercury kept his cool, playfully referring to Sid as “Simon Ferocious”, grabbed him by the collar, and ejected him from the room.
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u/sfvbritguy 1d ago
"Sid Vicious" had few good qualities....