This entry was inspired by this weeks Topic suggestion at Topical Tuesday.
You have been chosen to host a dinner party by Death (yes, thats right, the one with the big scythe). He is to bring with him two other guests of your choosing. They should be someone you would have liked to have met.
Who are they and why? Optionally you may also answer (if you are of the foodie persuasion) what would you serve to your esteemed guests?
My first dinner guest would have to be Freddie Mercury. Whilst other children were lulled to sleep on sweet lullabies I was raised by my Rock Chic mother and, as such, a musical diet of 70´s and early 80´s Rock. Freddie Mercury was the figure of my childhood. Some of my earliest memories involve listening to Freddie´s music or watching him perform live on the TV. I was captivated by his energy and his presense on stage. He was a God of Rock and there has been no one who can match him since. He was the symbol of my childhood and my teenage years.
A dinner party with Freddie Mercury as the star guest I think would be kind of magical. There are so many questions I would love to ask him and, I am sure I am not alone in saying this, it would be lovely to hear him sing live again…
Freddie Mercury was torn from us far too soon. I remember the day it was announced to the world he was dying. Of course, most of his fans were already aware something was terribly wrong with Freddie. But, to hear it said was devastating. I always say I do not understand how people can become so emotionally deranged over someone they have never met – Elvis, Diana… But, for Freddie, I cried. Freddie died the same year as my Grandfather and my pony Thomas. It was a bad, throughly demoralising, year.
The second dinner guest is a little bit of a stretch. I am torn between William Rufus, Aethelred Unraed or Claude Moñet. I think I may well go with the latter. Not only do I believe Claude Moñet will have better table manners, but I am not sure I would trust William Rufus to behave himself in the presense of Freddie.
I am a bit of a foodie but I am unsure what I would serve. Whatever the food it would be served with champagne or Russian Vodka…
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