Jun 17: Guest blogger Matt Podbury #3: "Uncovering the lost Freddie Mercury photos" - Part 3 of 3

If you've not been following the story of Matt Podbury's connections with Queen, go back and read part 1 and part 2 of this series first.

This post finishes off the story of Matt's love of the band and their solo recordings, which form an archive he is collecting.

Previously we heard about photos taken by a friend of Matt's uncle called Paul.

The images also made it into Mojo magazine.

All images courtesy of Matt Podbury

Matt shared the story of meeting Brian May and Roger Taylor at an event at the Royal Albert Hall when he was still at school.

Matt finishes the series by bringing the story up to date.

In the subsequent years, I have seen a few reincarnations of Queen with both Paul Rodgers, and more lately Adam Lambert. 

In fact, my wife and I feature briefly on the live Queen Return of the Champions DVD filmed at the Sheffield Arena in 2005. Watch out for Matt holding up a camera at 2'10" and 2'30" (the days before smartphones when you could enjoy the gig more).

I have seen Roger and Brian perform smaller solo gigs around the UK but was born too late to ever witness Freddie and the boys do their stuff. 

More recently the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' movie took the band to even greater heights and interest in everything Freddie Mercury and Queen related has reached levels never seen before. 

Here's Remi Malik and the others recreating that classic Live Aid set that Matt mentioned in Part 1 in the film 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.

Thanks very much to Matt for these memories.

Thanks to Carl Lee, Brendan Conway and Sandra Patterson who have also shared guest posts. Please think about a contribution of your own memories of a particular place and time linked to music.

Matt Podbury is a Geography teacher with nearly a quarter of a century of classroom experience, and he has been teaching at the International School of Toulouse for the last 17 years. Matt authors www.geographypods.com and www.ibgeographypods.org and also works for the IBO. He can be found on Discogs with the user name podders79 and adds a few extra vinyl records to his collection every month.