From the B4233 it’s just another farm building with a weather vane spinning on its roof. But to scholars of rock, this is a place of worship.
“They have coach parties of 60 Japanese tourists coming nowadays,” Tiffany Murray says. “And fans come from America, China and Australia — some are in tears when they get near to where it all happened.”
We are at Rockfield recording studios near Monmouth in south Wales. Murray points across the farm track at the barn window where, legend has it, the Queen frontman Freddie Mercury sat one day in August 1975. After watching the weather vane turn, he scribbled the lyrics: “Any way the wind blows, doesn’t really matter to me …”
He and the rest of the
