September 11, 2025 • 5 mins
We spoke with Patrick Myers who is a full-time Freddie Mercury impersonator in the band Killer Queen.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Say hello to Patrick Myers, who is Patrick Myers. Patrick
Myers has the coolest, one of the coolest jobs ever.
He gets to pretend to be Freddie Mercury for a living. Patrick,
Thanks for coming to the River one on five nine, dude,
one of the coolest jobs in the world. How old
were you when did you discover that you not only
looked like Freddie Mercury, but you could sing like him too.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well, it's all happened in a weird kind of like
dominoes all toppling. I I just left college. We all
got to know some new points were living in a
halls of residence, and we got the news that Freddy
had died a few months in about November, and we
were just in shocks. So we started playing the songs
to each other. And I'd always been a vocal mimic,
so I'd always tried to sound like the people are singing.
(00:43):
So if I was singing John memnonsoa trying to sound
like him, Sammy lou Reie and say with David Bowie Freddy.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Freddy would have been seventy nine this past Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's going to be a big
anniversary next year. That's amazing really, so.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Is that when you guys got Killer Queen together right
after he passed away.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Well, no, not immediately. We started off just playing the
songs for each other. And then after about a few
months of me doing this, and I discovered it if
I pulled my face a certain way, I could look
like him too. But well, let's do a concert like that.
Because the Queen had done a song called The Miracle,
which was big in England but not that big in America,
where they got young kids to dress up as them
and that was the video. They sort of like invented
(01:21):
their own tribute bands before tribute bands are a thing,
and we thought, I will do a show like that.
We'll dress up with them like the Miracle video and
do a show, and then that took off into the
tribute scene. Suddenly became tribute to these things we have,
and so we were suddenly a tribute and we were
one of the first tributes to anyone on the planet.
And that's how it and we started in nineteen ninety threes.
That was a couple of years later.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Now, being a tribute cover band, you have to get
him doing anything specifics. But do you guys have to
go through any legal hurdles or anything to be able
to perform the music from Queen Live.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
No, No, it's all quite straightforward, really. You know, you've
got to make sure that you say that you're not
an official tribute because Queen have got their own official tribute,
so they're quite care about that. But essentially it's all
it's all quite fine. You know, you've played the songs,
you wear a costume to get the audience going, and
you give everyone a great time, you know, and legally
it's remarkably straightforward. Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I thought for sure there'd be a few more legal hurdles, so.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Did I know, Unless I've got it wrong all these years,
and there are the huge legal hurdles, I've just been
accident the avoiding all these year.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Patrick Myers is the lead singer. He plays Freddie Mercury
in the tribute Killer Queen. By the way, Patrian, i've
seen you guys. You guys put on an incredible show.
I think I've seen you twice now. Last time a
few times you came to Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh wow, that's so nice, So thank you. I'm welcome.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Hey, Now, have you ever met any of the surviving
members of Queen.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
No, nearly once or twice, but no, almost, I haven't
met them. I used to work as a runner in
an advertising agency in Queen. Roger Ti that Brian May
and Jim Beeks came in for a meeting there one day,
and so I saw them. But I wanted to rush
up to them and say hi, but they were pitching
with the company, was pitching for the musical we were
rock here, and I didn't want to spoil oil things,
(03:04):
so I sort of had to watch. I had to
watch them like with an arms reach.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Oh I do. That must have been torture.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Painful. It's so painful. They actually, if they knew I
was doing Queen, they trem Queen tribute and they asked
me to serve them teas dressed as fready mercury. But
I refused because it had such a terrible idea. So
I could have met them, but I would have I
would have probably lost the company of the pitch.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You made the right decision.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, no, No, I mean that some bloody guy walks
in with tea dressed to spready mercury and you think, oh,
for God's sake, So I could have met them if
i'd have decided to go ahead and do that, but
I just knew it was the wrong thing to do. Yeah,
So I would love to meet them, but I haven't.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Never mind, hopefully one day, hopefully, one day you will.
Maybe What are your What are your favorite songs you
like to perform from Queen? What are your favorites?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Pat? Well, my favorite songs, I think, I mean, I
love all all the usual suspects, like being rhapste and
I all that song We Were Rocky and all that,
But the songs that I love there's a song called
Show Must Go On and to Date of Our Lives,
which I regardless sort of companion pieces. Really. There's a
song called Don't Try So Hard, which I think is beautiful.
There's a song called It's Late from the News of
(04:10):
the World album, which I absolutely adore, and so and
there's so many songs, you know, I know, I love
good Company. There's just loads of them. Really, who wants
to there's.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Never there's never a shortage of Queen songs. Never.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Now I like it because there's so much variety. They're
releasing loads of playlists that you know, albums stresses and playlists,
stressors albums. At the moment on the various streaming platforms,
and you can just see how many different genres they
easily straddle.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It's incredible, and you guys pay an incredible tribute to them.
And you'll be at the Warner Theater coming up on
September twentieth, that's right around the corner, Killer Queen and again, Patrick,
you play Freddie Mercury. I've seen you guys a few times.
You guys put on a kick ass show.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Oh thank you, thank you, Come Alo and see us now.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I have to Patrick, thank you so much. And we'll
see at the show on September twentieth at the Warner Theater.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Do you let us Bye bye,
Say hello to Patrick Myers, who is Patrick Myers. Patrick
Myers has the coolest, one of the coolest jobs ever.
He gets to pretend to be Freddie Mercury for a living. Patrick,
Thanks for coming to the River one on five nine, dude,
one of the coolest jobs in the world. How old
were you when did you discover that you not only
looked like Freddie Mercury, but you could sing like him too.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well, it's all happened in a weird kind of like
dominoes all toppling. I I just left college. We all
got to know some new points were living in a
halls of residence, and we got the news that Freddy
had died a few months in about November, and we
were just in shocks. So we started playing the songs
to each other. And I'd always been a vocal mimic,
so I'd always tried to sound like the people are singing.
(00:43):
So if I was singing John memnonsoa trying to sound
like him, Sammy lou Reie and say with David Bowie Freddy.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Freddy would have been seventy nine this past Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's going to be a big
anniversary next year. That's amazing really, so.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Is that when you guys got Killer Queen together right
after he passed away.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Well, no, not immediately. We started off just playing the
songs for each other. And then after about a few
months of me doing this, and I discovered it if
I pulled my face a certain way, I could look
like him too. But well, let's do a concert like that.
Because the Queen had done a song called The Miracle,
which was big in England but not that big in America,
where they got young kids to dress up as them
and that was the video. They sort of like invented
(01:21):
their own tribute bands before tribute bands are a thing,
and we thought, I will do a show like that.
We'll dress up with them like the Miracle video and
do a show, and then that took off into the
tribute scene. Suddenly became tribute to these things we have,
and so we were suddenly a tribute and we were
one of the first tributes to anyone on the planet.
And that's how it and we started in nineteen ninety threes.
That was a couple of years later.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Now, being a tribute cover band, you have to get
him doing anything specifics. But do you guys have to
go through any legal hurdles or anything to be able
to perform the music from Queen Live.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
No, No, it's all quite straightforward, really. You know, you've
got to make sure that you say that you're not
an official tribute because Queen have got their own official tribute,
so they're quite care about that. But essentially it's all
it's all quite fine. You know, you've played the songs,
you wear a costume to get the audience going, and
you give everyone a great time, you know, and legally
it's remarkably straightforward. Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I thought for sure there'd be a few more legal hurdles, so.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Did I know, Unless I've got it wrong all these years,
and there are the huge legal hurdles, I've just been
accident the avoiding all these year.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Patrick Myers is the lead singer. He plays Freddie Mercury
in the tribute Killer Queen. By the way, Patrian, i've
seen you guys. You guys put on an incredible show.
I think I've seen you twice now. Last time a
few times you came to Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh wow, that's so nice, So thank you. I'm welcome.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Hey, Now, have you ever met any of the surviving
members of Queen.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
No, nearly once or twice, but no, almost, I haven't
met them. I used to work as a runner in
an advertising agency in Queen. Roger Ti that Brian May
and Jim Beeks came in for a meeting there one day,
and so I saw them. But I wanted to rush
up to them and say hi, but they were pitching
with the company, was pitching for the musical we were
rock here, and I didn't want to spoil oil things,
(03:04):
so I sort of had to watch. I had to
watch them like with an arms reach.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Oh I do. That must have been torture.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Painful. It's so painful. They actually, if they knew I
was doing Queen, they trem Queen tribute and they asked
me to serve them teas dressed as fready mercury. But
I refused because it had such a terrible idea. So
I could have met them, but I would have I
would have probably lost the company of the pitch.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You made the right decision.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, no, No, I mean that some bloody guy walks
in with tea dressed to spready mercury and you think, oh,
for God's sake, So I could have met them if
i'd have decided to go ahead and do that, but
I just knew it was the wrong thing to do. Yeah,
So I would love to meet them, but I haven't.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Never mind, hopefully one day, hopefully, one day you will.
Maybe What are your What are your favorite songs you
like to perform from Queen? What are your favorites?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Pat? Well, my favorite songs, I think, I mean, I
love all all the usual suspects, like being rhapste and
I all that song We Were Rocky and all that,
But the songs that I love there's a song called
Show Must Go On and to Date of Our Lives,
which I regardless sort of companion pieces. Really. There's a
song called Don't Try So Hard, which I think is beautiful.
There's a song called It's Late from the News of
(04:10):
the World album, which I absolutely adore, and so and
there's so many songs, you know, I know, I love
good Company. There's just loads of them. Really, who wants
to there's.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Never there's never a shortage of Queen songs. Never.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Now I like it because there's so much variety. They're
releasing loads of playlists that you know, albums stresses and playlists,
stressors albums. At the moment on the various streaming platforms,
and you can just see how many different genres they
easily straddle.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It's incredible, and you guys pay an incredible tribute to them.
And you'll be at the Warner Theater coming up on
September twentieth, that's right around the corner, Killer Queen and again, Patrick,
you play Freddie Mercury. I've seen you guys a few times.
You guys put on a kick ass show.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Oh thank you, thank you, Come Alo and see us now.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I have to Patrick, thank you so much. And we'll
see at the show on September twentieth at the Warner Theater.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Do you let us Bye bye,
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