One time Freddie went shopping, he saw a shirt and said: ‘Oh that’s very Crystal, I’ll get it for him as a Christmas present’. The next time I went to his house, Freddie told me how he had seen this shirt and got it for...
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On a flying visit to Montreux in 1990, Freddie and I stayed at the Montreux Palace Hotel with Joe and Barbara Valentin. It was on that trip that Freddie wrote his song ‘Delilah,’ dedicated to his favourite cat. The shops were still open when the...
The ‘South America Bites The Dust’ tour (Game) saw the band being the first to play in South American stadiums in early 1981.The tour began on February 28, with two consecutive nights at Estadio Velez Sarsfield in Buenos Aires, where the band drew a crowd...
Queen Live !! November 26, 1979, The band performed at Apollo Theatre in Manchester, England. “Crazy” Tour This is the first of two nights in Manchester. Because of technical issues with their lighting rig, the show began nearly two hours late. The band opened with...
I’ll carry on as long as I write music and people want to buy it. That’s important to me, but it’s not the be all and end all. I’m not going to be one of those old hams that keep going and going. I’d rather...
Brian and I were thinking about poverty going on all around the world and that’s why the track “Is This The World We Created” came about. I think for Live Aid we’re actually going to do that as a special thing, right at the end....
“Freddie told me he had AIDS soon after he was diagnosed in 1987. I was devastated. I had seen what the disease had done to so many of my other friends. I knew exactly what it was going to do to Freddie. As did he....
The Crazy Tour was a short tour by Queen during November and December 1979. After the release of the single “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, the band decided to change the concert dynamic they used to do the last years. In this tour Queen would...
Freddie had special interest in a lot of aspects of the Japanese culture, he was most interested in art. He was really into Japanse craft and he used to buy a lot of articles to add to his collection everytime he traveled to Japan. On...
Music became an outlet for Freddie Mercury at boarding school – and transformed his life. “I took piano lessons at school and really enjoyed it. That was my mother’s doing,” he said. “She made sure I stuck at it and I did it up to...
Queen Live !! November 18, 1974, The band performed at New Theatre in Oxford, England with Hustler opening. “Sheer Heart Attack” Tour
Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor backstage at Queen’s Concert @ Colston Hall in Bristol, England November 18, 1975. ‘A Night At The Opera’ Tour “Queen will probably always be remembered, because as their tour is beginning to demonstrate, they have the ability to actualise and...
Nobody could take the piss out of me as much as I take the piss out of myself. I did that with all those costumes and various other things. I was thinking, “Don’t take yourself so seriously.” And the best way to do that is...
All my lovers asked me why they couldn’t replace Mary Austin, but it’s simply impossible.Mary is one of my closest friends in the world. Ours is a pure friendship of the highest standard. It’s an instinctive thing. I have built up an immense bond with...
Queen played twice in San Remo, February 3th and February 4th. On both performanced the band only played “Radio Ga Ga”. Queen were the headlining act at the annual San Remo Song Festival, miming their new single “Radio Ga Ga” in front of a couple...
Queen Live !! November 16, 1978, The band performed the first of two evenings at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, USA “Jazz” Tour Freddie, after the third song: “Straight away we’d like to do something from the… another song from...
November 15, 1977 – The band performed at at the Providence Civic Centre in Providence, Rhode Island, USA ‘News of the World’ tour Tim Longo managed to sneak backstage to snap this amazing picture of Freddie Mercury and Brian May. Apparently, there was not too...
Queen Live November 15, 1975, The band performed their second Sold-Out evening at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool, England‘A Night At The Opera’ Tour The band are in fine form at this early tour show. Freddie greets the enthusiastic audience after Ogre Battle. “Good evening,...
Freddie behind the lens in Budapest 1986Famed photographer Denis O’Regan is behind him. Picture snapped by Richard Young
Freddie Mercury on stage at Queen’s first concert at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City 5 February 1977. This concert sold out within moments of the tickets going on sale! ‘A Day At The Races’ tour
“I met the amazing Freddie and the band in the lift of the hotel they were staying at in Melbourne during their concert. My then husband and I stayed at the hotel for the entire time Queen was there and had tickets to every concert...
December 14, 1973, Queen performed TWO shows at the Hammersmith Odeon in London to finish off their Queen l tour. The first performance was...
One time Freddie went shopping, he saw a shirt and said: ‘Oh that’s very Crystal, I’ll get it for him as a Christmas present’....
Freddie Mercury was incredibly generous when he was alive but made sure his loved ones would keep receiving gifts every single year even after...
December 8, 1974, Queen performed at Congresgebouw in Hague, Netherlands “Sheer Heart Attack” Tour This is Queen’s first show in the Netherlands. The Dutch...
The life of Farrokh Bulsara began on the East African island of Zanzibar on September 5, 1946. 25 years later in London under the name of Freddie Mercury he was fronting the now legendary rock group named Queen. nThe son of Bomi and Jer Bulsara, Freddie spent the bulk of his childhood in India where he attended St. Peter’s boarding school. He began taking piano lessons at the age of seven. No one could foresee where a love of music would take him. The Bulsara family moved to Middlesex in 1964 and from there Freddie joined up with a blues band called Wreckage while studying graphic design courses at Ealing College of Art. While singing for Wreckage, a fellow student introduced Freddie to Roger Taylor and Brian May, founder members of a band called Smile....
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