The Adrienne Posta Connection
I recently took a book out of a local library called 'More of the Real Life... Freddie Mercury' by David Evans and David Minns. Here's something I found that interested me....
In his first contribution to the book, David Minns recounts his first meeting with Freddie Mercury, that took place circa-March 1975, in the Fulham Road, London. On that evening, he went on to a nightclub with Freddie and a guy called Malcolm Grey. The recording of Queen's fourth LP was a subject discussed there. David Minns exchanged telephone numbers with Freddie Mercury, and, three or four weeks later phoned him at Bronze Studios, Chalk Farm.
Freddie invited him to drop by on the next day, and they agreed
that he would visit along with Adrienne Posta:
'..I was seeing a great deal of Adrienne and her then
husband Graham Bonnet who was going through a particularly tortuous time of
life both personally and professionally and whom I had also been asked to
steer.'
When David Minns and Adrienne Posta arrived at Bronze Studios,
all four members of Queen were there and they listened to 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
for the first time. Apparently Freddie Mercury said:
"Now dear, listen to this and tell me what
you think of my rhapsody! It's not quite finished yet but you'll get the idea."
The single was released on October 31st 1975, and has become one of the most popular songs of all time.
This account was of special interest to me, because I was aware of the following information concerning Adrienne Posta published, in 1976, at the beginning of chapter nine of Arthur Shuttlewood's book 'The Flying Saucerers':
'Not many admirers know that vivacious Adrienne Posta, well-known actress and comedienne, saw a UFO on Monday 24 January 1972 at Cambridge Square, London. She described it as fuzzy in shape, focused around a triangle, with its base to the earth and its apex upwards. It was moving in a typically difficult-to-produce movement which was smooth; and yet moved sideways and upwards - very hard to describe exactly, she admitted, but quite unforgettable, once seen!'
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Selected Links
Filmography/TV - Adrienne
Posta
Real audio/photo - Vocalpoint
Adrienne Posta
'Mick Jagger met Marianne Faithfull at Posta's 16th
birthday party' -
Battersea
Park 1964 photograph
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