Think of Freddie Mercury and his stage presence, iconic fashion sense and distinctive teeth spring to mind.
In Bohemian Rhapsody, the new Queen biopic, Mercury finds Roger Taylor and Brian May outside the student union after their lead singer has quit.
He offers to step in to the role and they reply "not with those teeth, mate".
The mean jab sees Mercury hesitate, clearly hurt, before he recovers to explain: "I was born with four additional incisors. More space in my mouth means more range.”
Giving them a belting tune he secures himself the lead singer gig.
But what about in real life? Mercury was said to have been embarrassed by his overbite.
“[O]n screen he always covered his teeth with his top lip or raised his hand to cover them,” his friend Peter Freestone said . “He was self-conscious about them. At home, he didn’t have to care.”
It wasn't as if Mercury couldn't have afforded to fix them, before his death he was worth $60m.
He left his anterior overjet or class II malocclusion, as it's medically known. His overbite was caused by four extra teeth that then forced his front teeth forward, and was probably inherited from his mother.
So why did he leave them?
It turns out Mercury did actually think they helped his range.
“We all know that Freddie Mercury had very strange teeth," said Rudi Dolezal, who made documentaries about the star. “[W]e would all ask ourselves, 'A guy who was that rich, why didn't he change his teeth?' He was very afraid that if he changed his teeth that his particular sound of [his voice] would go away. So he was more concerned with his voice than his looks, and I think that says a lot about the man.”
It was claimed Mercury had a four-octave range, and while this seems to have been debunked, his teeth do seem to have helped his unusual singing technique.
It isn't clear if Mercury had changed his teeth if his style and delivery would have been effected, but it's easy to see why he wouldn't want to risk it.
Instead his teeth went on to become a clear part of his identity and look.
Rami Malek, who plays Mercury, had a set made that he wore in the lead up to the movie on the set of Mr Robot so he could get used to them. Malek then had them gold plated so he could keep them as a memento.
Bohemian Rhapsody is in cinemas now.