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Freddie Mercury auction
"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

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Queen’s Freddie Mercury, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, AC/DC’s Bon Scott and Little Richard onstage
“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

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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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Freddie Mercury of Queen
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

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Freddie Mercury, The Beatles
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

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Freddie Mercury onstage at Wembley Stadium flanked by close-ups of his crown and cloak, and his acoustic guitar
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

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Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana
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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Watch Freddie Mercury's final ever interview on camera

By Liz Scarlett Published

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury was interviewed on film for the final time in 1987, the same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, a fact undisclosed to the public at the time

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Freddie Mercury speaking in an interview
Freddie Mercury once revealed the two famous people, alive or dead, he'd most want to meet, and it'd make a hell of a dinner party

By Merlin Alderslade Published

One was a fellow music icon that Mercury idolised, the other was an infamous royal

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George Michael onstage with Brian May
How George Michael proved himself to be Freddie Mercury's one true heir

By Fraser Lewry Last updated

When George Michael sang at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992, his tour de force performance was powered by hero worship and personal trauma

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