Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_11-02-1974_-_NME.
“The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trouser-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.”
— Sinclair Lewis, book Babbitt
Babbitt (1922), Ch. 8
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