This is the scansion of the article appeared on the Italian magazine "TV Sorrisi e Canzoni" for the week from 30 December 2001 to 5 January 2002.
This is the English text of the article. I hope I've done a good work of translation :-)
Reminding Freddie...
A spectacle in Munich
In the Planetarium of Queen
It is ten years since Freddie Mercury, the unforgettable leader and voice of Queen, is no more with us. In fact he died of Aids 45 years old, in London, on the 24th of November 1991. And many people, the last month, reminded the event. Also "Sorrisi" has wanted to join in the memory of a great of the rock, and it did it by delivering a special plaque to Brian May, guitarrist of the group. The chance was provided, a few days ago, by the inauguration of a phantasmagorical spectacle staged at Munich Planetarium and dedicated to the mythical British group. It is an enormous dome-screen on which they project the "Queen Universe". In a surreal atmosphere of sounds and images of galaxies which appear and disappear, the great Freddie lives again trough historical unpublished films. The tribute to the singer and to the group has been arranged also for the 30 years of the foundation. The spectacle, whose name is "Queen Heaven", remains on stage in Munich for six months, and then becomes itinerant.
Brian May, who has a degree in physics and a doctorate of research in astronomy, had an important hand in the setting up of the scenes.
When he received the plaque of "Sorrisi", Brian said: "Working with Freddie's video and sound stuff, for us he is always present. We still feel him at our side, and so we can keep of creating. This award, like all the others, will go to Freddie's parents."
Behind the group there is the frenetic work of the manager Jim Beach, who never stops to churn out initiatives. Many of them have a beneficent aim, like collecting founds for the research against Aids. Between these, the setting up of a musical in London with Boy George, which is on stage in January. In April, in memory of the Live Aid, the first big gathering concert wanted by Bob Geldof (1985), Queen are going to publish a new DVD - CD with the unpublished images of that famous concert, when Freddie, in singlet and white trousers, had one of his last aparitions.
In Italy there is an active Fan Club in Via Garibaldi 2/2, Berbenno (Provincia di Sondrio), tel: 0342/492013, whose website is
www.fanzine.net/fanclubs/queen/wwry.
To "the most beautiful voice of the century", so Freddie's voice has been defined, is also dedicated a found, whose name is Mercury Phoenix Trust, which since 1992 has collected about 6,000,000 US dollars, for the research against Aids.
Freddie is dead, but his spirit is still alive between us.
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