“I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

I like to browse around art galleries, but I’m a hard-working lad and I never have the time.

I bought a house in London which I’d only seen in photographs. I know that’s absurd, but I had no time to go house-hunting. And I needed a place to move my furniture and clothes.

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter»

– Freddie Mercury

Interview 03/17/1977 – Circus Magazine

Part 2: The Queen Tapes

by Don Rush

Pic: Second Avenue in Manatthan, New York, 1977 – Freddie Mercury visiting an antique store

Photographer: Micheal Brennan