influences our work. In other words, the basis for this entire analysis of Freddie. There must always be an awareness that the interpretation being placed on words could be the correct one, or not always correct, or just simply wrong. The more works that are studied and analysed, the more correct - or more wrong depending on the original hypothesis - the result. It is an issue and problem that this author has no difficulties in accepting and using: so contradictions may occur as more and more is studied and discovered - or hidden.

Only Freddie knows, in one sense, what he has written in his words. Yet even then, sometimes an external viewer can see more into the words then even the author realises. Also, which Freddie are we speaking of? Are the words written by the Freddie in his stage persona different to those written by the Freddie in his home persona? Do they both write or is it just one? In Freddie's case, it can be assumed that both write and both write differently as his style seems to fall into two distinct types.

There is the commercial Freddie and the introspective

Freddie. The one who takes risks in his music, and the one who 'plays it safe'. As to which is which, perhaps time will tell.

When exploring lyrics, the result should be discovered, not assumed. We should never assume the answer based on what we want to find as it will be found. So we can analyse the lyrics of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' to find that Freddie was homosexual at this time (blatantly not true), or that he was in conflict with himself (possible, but possibly not). The only thing we can directly say is what it literally means. The analysis depends either on what is wanted to be known, or on what is discovered.

That Freddie's lyrics have something of Freddie in them is undeniable. The what changes over time, over song and over mood. Unless we know exactly how Freddie was feeling at the time we can only place our feelings on reading the lyrics onto him. Broadly we know, in the narrow sense, we can only guess. The guess is good if it fits everything without having to resort to