Why does Brian like clogs so much and how did he make John and Freddie wear them at Ridge Farm? 😄
I guess they all liked clogs so much! Haha! Also, I really don’t know, why does Brian love clogs?? Anyone?
“As for the clogs? They're comfortable and I have claustrophobic feet. I always go for trainers on stage these days. I don't like wearing clogs when I'm performing, because, er... the guitar lead tends to catch under the heel” (“Cash for Questions”, Q Magazine, July 1998, https://brianmay.com/brian/mags&press/qjuly98/qjuly98.html). Also, from my fashion history textbook: “Clogs, with wooden soles, were especially popular over the period when platform soles were in vogue” (Eubank and Tortora, Survey of Historic Costume, fifth edition, page 561). I’ve seen photos of Freddie, Roger, and especially Brian in clogs, but never John. I could be mistaken though!
Thank you!! Ahaha, WAIT, I could have sworn that Deaky was wearing clogs in some of the Ridge Farm pics but now that I looked again... he isn’t?? :O Mandela effect?
Ahaha, in my Google search I did come across this picture however and if I’ve seen it before then I’d forgotten I had seen it, but my god, it’s glorious. Asahfhjagf Freddie oh lord XD
i know i've seen Deaky in clogs at least four times, though i don't have pictures handy at the moment, i'll find them. (i have a very photographic memory but context often escapes me 😅).
there was at least once outside, i think twice but it could be two photos from the same day; once when he and Rog and Freddie were holding those butterfly kite things (black clogs for that time); and i'm pretty sure he even wore them on stage once!
off to look for pictures, unless anyone else can find them first XD
Aha! Are those black clogs on Deaky, yay/nay? I think they are.
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looks like the white ones again to me...
I think it was in a blog post on his Soapbox or blog or what have you that Brian said they were in vogue at the time and they had just gotten back from a concert date in the Netherlands or something and they all bought them there.
Edit: Brian linked to a February 26, 2011 Telegraph interview with Roger Taylor about Ridge Farm:
“I’m in leather flares, and those very short shorts that Freddie Mercury is wearing were the fashion at the time; footballers wore shorts like that too. We had just come back from a tour of Sweden, hence those awful white clogs, and the dog that I’m holding belonged to the Andrews family, who owned the farm.”
Which leads me to believe that Roger and Freddie were like, “ok that fad is over let’s move on to more stylish and/or comfortable footwear.”
And Brian was probably like, “oMg nO, mOm! iT’s NoT a PhAsE! ClOgS aRe a WaY oF LiFe!”