How to Promote Your Album to the Press

I remember seeing you in 1996 at the Colston Hall in Bristol and there was an awful lot of back to the light material. What was it like to then sort of almost be the leader of the tour and the band as opposed to sort of the guitarist and one quarter of that machine? But also, was it difficult to promote that to the press who had so recently been so vile towards Freddie? Did you, you know, there must have been people who wrote things, newspapers who had sent these paparazzi to Freddie's house to try and find all of you? Was it that difficult to then go, oh, X would like to do an interview about your album and you go