Freddie Mercury (Photo: Tom Callins, represented by Modern Rocks Gallery) - A.V. Club DC
In fact, earlier this year, Rian Johnson, the writer and director Star Wars: Episode VIII , even tweeted a photo of Mercury and Vader to silence a troll. Most of these photos date from 1980’s The Game tour, a fact verified because Mercury is sporting a mustache, a look so controversial that fans reportedly threw razors at him. One photographer lucky enough to catch Mercury during that era was Tom Callins , who shot Queen on August 10, 1980, at Houston’s Summit Center—a basketball arena then, and now the headquarters of the megachurch Lakewood Church, whose pastor is... Callins wasn’t expecting Mercury to arrive during the encore with Darth in tow, but he happened to be in the right place at the right time and captured a moment that’s been bootlegged online for years now. The photo Callins took is now being represented and sold by the Austin-based Modern Rocks Gallery , whose collection also includes rare Nirvana photos snapped by Kirk Weddle, who also took the Nevermind album cover shot, and unique photos of The... ) As he explains to The A. V. Club , there are a lot of misconceptions floating around about these photos of Darth and Mercury. Source: www.avclub.com
