Freddie Mercury
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Queen icon Freddie Mercury had a secret daughter, according to a new biography
By Stef Lach published
Book claims Freddie Mercury had a close relationship with his secret "daughter" until his death in 1991

The Freddie Mercury song that Queen’s Brian May never gets tired of playing
By Classic Rock published
Spoiler: it’s not Bohemian Rhapsody!

Brian May opens up about Queen's doubts on having Freddie Mercury as their frontman in their early days: "He did a lot of running around the place and screaming his head off. So we thought, ‘Is this going work?’"
By Liz Scarlett published
Queen guitarist Brian May reveals how the band used to find working with Freddie Mercury "a little unnerving"

Brian May says Adam Lambert is taking Queen's songs to places Freddie Mercury never did
By Fraser Lewry published
Queen's Brian May talks to Sammy Hagar about Freddie Mercury, Adam Lambert, and curating Queen's legacy

Freddie Mercury's famed London mansion is up for sale: offers over £30 million invited
By Fraser Lewry published
Mercury's eight-bedroom West London home is on the market for the first time since he bought it

"Oi, Freddie! Have you succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses yet?": When Queen frontman Freddie Mercury met Sex Pistols bassist 'Simon Ferocious'
By Paul Brannigan published
"It upset me when the Sex Pistols exploded" recalls Brian May, who was rather more taken with punk than Freddie Mercury

"I've lived, I really have. I've done it all. I love the fact that I make people happy": The life and times of rock's most outrageous star, Freddie Mercury
By Jon Hotten published
How a shy kid from Zanzibar helped propel Queen to superstardom

"I can't look... it's too sad": Queen's Brian May expresses dismay as Freddie Mercury's personal possessions go under the hammer in London, with his Bohemian Rhapsody video 'snake bangle' selling for £698,500
By Paul Brannigan published
As Freddie Mercury's garden door sells for over £400,000 at a London auction of his personal effects, Brian May admits that, for him, it's "too sad" to watch

“He got onstage and preached rock’n’roll, which was very much the inspiration for what I did”: 30 musicians on the singers who changed their life
By Classic Rock published
Paul Stanley, Joe Elliott, Lars Ulrich, Geddy Lee and more on their personal kings and queens of the microphone

You can now view Freddie Mercury's stage costumes, photos, hand-written lyrics, the piano on which he wrote Bohemian Rhapsody and his silk kimono collection before they go under the hammer
By Paul Brannigan published
An exhibition of late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury's possessions, titled Freddie Mercury, A World of His Own, is now open at Sotheby’s in London
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