Freddie Mercury
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"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

Unearthed early draft of Freddie Mercury's lyrics for Bohemian Rhapsody reveal the song's original title
By Liz Scarlett published
Handwritten notes by Freddie Mercury that are going up for auction reveal the Queen frontman's original title and lyrical ideas for Bohemian Rhapsody

Listen to this haunting AI Freddie Mercury cover of The Beatles' Yesterday
By Liz Scarlett published
Someone has crafted an AI-generated cover of The Beatles' Yesterday as if it were sung by Freddie Mercury, and we're not sure how we feel about it

Freddie Mercury's amazing private collection of everything to be exhibited before being sold at auction
By Fraser Lewry published
Freddie Mercury's iconic crown and cloak can be yours, as can the guitar on which Crazy Little Thing Called Love was written and the handwritten lyrics for We Are The Champions

That time Queen's Freddie Mercury dressed Princess Diana in men's clothing and sneaked her into a London gay club
By Liz Scarlett published
Apparently, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury once snuck a disguised Princess Di into a South London gay club and the two partied together like a pair of "naughty schoolchildren"
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