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Jul 25, 2005 · Discover Maximum Freddie Mercury by Freddie Mercury released in 2005. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
- Freddie Mercury Was A Brilliant Boxer
- He Rescued Tennis Star Billie Jean King
- His Fashion Sense Scared His Parents
- He Designed The Queen Logo
- He Didn’T Need Much Sleep…
- … But Had Bad Dreams
- He Stood Up to Punk Rebels
- Small Planes Scared Him
- He Was Asked to Star on Broadway with Linda Ronstadt
- He Loved to Sing in The Nude
At school in India, the young Freddie Mercury was a good table tennis player. He used to play tennis sometimes, especially when he was on holiday, and enjoyed watching Wimbledon. He also liked watching rugby, but football and cricket did nothing for him. “I loathed cricket and long-distance running; I was completely useless at both. But I could spr...
Mercury said he “loved” the nightclubs in New York and went to check out a Brooklyn disco called The Gilded Grape, even though it was supposed to be very edgy. “I’d heard it was really exciting, but everyone told me I shouldn’t go – or, if I did, at least to make sure I had a fast bulletproof car waiting for me outside,” said Mercury. “Everyone tri...
When he was a student at Ealing Art College, Mercury began experimenting with different looks, but it didn’t go down well at home. “My parents were outraged when I told them what I was up to,” he recalled inFreddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words(Mercury Songs Ltd). “I used to go home periodically and turn up in these outrageous clothes, with my ...
Mercury’s diploma in Art And Graphic Design from Ealing came in useful, as he designed the logo for Queen after John Deacon completed the line-up with Brian May and Roger Taylor in July 1971. “We decided to call the band Queen and I designed the Queen crest logo,” he revealed. “I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs [two ...
Despite his energetic professional life, and partying, Mercury said he could survive on little shut-eye. “I can go without sleep for long periods, that’s my nature. I can get by on just two or three hours a night. I don’t know what it is, but it’s true. I wish I could tell you. I relax in ways most people can’t understand, by just sleeping on a pla...
“Quite often I have vicious nightmares, like one night just before the Rainbow concert [1974]. We were sleeping in the Holiday Inn and I dreamed I went out onto my balcony and the whole thing fell down and I was in a heap on the pavement. Really, I was petrified when I woke up,” said Mercury.
In 1977, when Queen were recording parts of the News Of The World album in London, Mercury said that two future members of Sex Pistolswere in the next studio. “You can imagine us and the whole punk rock and anti-establishment thing under the one roof,” said Mercury. “Anyway, I got Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious in to listen to one of our tracks and ...
Queen jetted round the globe during 13 major tours, but Mercury did not like it when they had to travel on a small jet in South America. “I was terrified. I don’t like flying in anything smaller than a jumbo jet, and this thing we went in was so small,” said Mercury. “I was told we had photographers and the like at the other end waiting for us to a...
Mercury loved going to the theater, ballet, and opera, but did not want to tread the boards himself. “I could never do a season in a theater, as it were. I would run out,” said Mercury. “They asked me to do Broadway once –La Bohèmewith Linda Ronstadt – and I thought, You’re kidding! It’s totally off tangent, but they asked me to do it. They thought...
Mercury battled hard to cope with vocal cord problems – and found that rehearsing without clothes helped. “I have to go easy on the red wine because of my throat nodules. To warm up, I do what I call ‘mock operatics.’ I do it naked, though, because there’s a certain piquancy about that. With clothes on, it doesn’t work, so I sing in the complete ra...
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Musical artist. Signature. Freddie Mercury [2] (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) [3] was a British singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen.
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Nov 24, 2023 · Classic Rock. "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. ( Classic Rock ) published 24 November 2023. How a shy kid from Zanzibar helped propel Queen to superstardom.
Sep 6, 2023 · Max Scheler - K & K/Getty Images. Some musical artists relish being able to cover the work of their idols; others find it daunting. Freddie Mercury seemed to be in the latter camp, at least when it came to singing anything done by John Lennon.
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Mar 29, 2021 · Freddie Mercury is one of the rock world’s most versatile and engaging performers as the lead singer of Queen. He is best known for his mock operatic masterpiece, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which ...
