A Dublin hairdresser has revealed how helping out Queen’s wardrobe department gave her a chance to meet Freddie Mercury backstage.
The Queen frontman, who died 31 years ago today, came to Ireland as part of Queen's The Works tour in the summer of 1984. However, his wardrobe department got into a spot of difficulty ahead of the highly anticipated performance.
Linda Carmody Cullen, a hairdresser who worked in Peter Marks on O’Connell Street, explains that the band’s costume manager had visited the salon with a highly unusual request: to wash the group members wigs ahead of the concert. The large props were too heavy for the costume manager to take all at once to the RDS, so she offered to help carry them over once they’d gotten washed and blow-dried.
