Why Freddie Mercury and Queen were booed off stage at Sunbury in 1974

The drummer from Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs has given Neil Mitchell a call to explain why one of the most popular bands of all time was booed off stage at Sunbury in 1974.

Yep, you read that correctly!

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Queen played (well, tried to) at Melbourne’s attempted answer to Woodstock in late January, 1974.

The infamous tale was brought to Neil’s attention by a caller on Thursday.

It prompted another call shortly after from a man named Gil.

Turns out it was Gil Matthews – the drummer of The Aztecs!

“They were hardly known in Australia at that stage,” he said.

“I remember Freddie Mercury said – ‘you’ll regret this! We’ll be back!’.

He was probably right!

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