At the encouragement of some of the vids posted on this thread, I've been listening to all of my Queen LP's over the last couple days.
To close your eyes and listen to Freddie Mercury is to be in the presence of true greatness, the kind that only comes along once or twice in a lifetime. His range, the raw power, the subtle timbres of his voice, can never be duplicated.
Listening to Freddie provides one of those moments where you say to yourself, "Holy crap. I could spend literally every second of my life devoted to mastering this art and I would never be 1% as good as him." I've had other moments like that...watching Richard Pryor, Dominik Hasek, Daniel Day Lewis - reading Hemingway.
Some men were put on this Earth to do one specific thing.