Freddie Mercury

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FREDDIE MERCURY
Born Farrokh Bulsara

5th September 1946 – 24th November 1991

British singer and songwriter

The lead vocalist of the rock band Queen

One of the greatest singers in the history of rock music

 Early life
• Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Stone Town in
the British protectorate of Zanzibar 
• His parents were from the Parsi community of western
India
• He was born with four extra incisors, to which he
attributed his enhanced vocal range
• Mercury spent most of his childhood in India where he
began taking piano lessons at the age of seven while
living with relatives
• At the age of 12, he formed a school band – the
Hectics
• Mercury studied graphic art and design – he later used
these skills to design heraldic arms for his band
Queen
 Songwriting
✶ Mercury wrote 10 of the 17 songs on
Queen's Greatest Hits album:
» Bohemian Rhapsody
» Seven Seas of Rhye
» Killer Queen
» Somebody to Love
» Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
» We Are the Champions
» Bicycle Race
» Don't Stop Me Now
» Crazy Little Thing Called Love
» Play the Game
 Live performer

✶ Mercury was noted for his live performances,

which were often delivered to stadium audiences
around the world
✶ He displayed a highly theatrical style that
often evoked a great deal of participation from
the crowd
✶ Mercury's main prop on stage was a
broken microphone stand – after accidentally
snapping it off the heavy base during an early
performance, he realised it could be used in
endless ways
One of Mercury's most notable performances with Queen took place at Live Aid in 1985
Solo career I won't be touring on my own or splitting up
with Queen. Without the others I would be
✶ Mercury put out two solo albums and nothing. The press always makes out that I'm
several singles the wild one and they're all quiet, but it's
not true. I've got some wild stories about
✶ Pseudonym Larry Lurex Brian May you wouldn't believe.
—Mercury on his solo career, January 1985.

Personality
✶ Mercury was shy and retiring when not performing,
particularly around people he did not know well, and granted
very few interviews
✶ He once said of himself: "When I'm performing I'm
an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.„
✶ Mercury never discussed his ethnic or religious background
with journalists
✶ He also cared for at least ten cats throughout his life and
most of them were adopted from the Blue Cross
Personal life – relationships
✶ Mercury had a long-term relationship with Mary Austin

✶ They met each other in 1969 when she was 19 and he was 24 years old, a
year before Queen had formed
✶ He lived with Austin for several
years in West Kensington, London
✶ By the mid-1970s, he had begun an
affair with David Minns, an
American record executive
at Elektra Records
✶ In December 1976, Mercury told
Austin of his sexuality, which
ended their romantic relationship
✶ Mercury and Austin remained
friends through the years; ✶ Hutton, who tested HIV-
Mercury often referred to her as
positive in 1990, lived
his only true friend
with Mercury for the last
✶ By 1985, he began another long- seven years of his life,
term relationship with Irish-born nursed him during his
hairdresser Jim Hutton  illness, and was present at
his bedside when he died
Illness
✶ Mercury exhibited HIV/AIDS symptoms as early as 1982

✶ He was diagnosed with AIDS in late April 1987

Death
✶ On the evening of 24 November 1991, about 24 hours after issuing the
statement, Mercury died at the age of 45 at his home in Kensington
✶ The cause of death was bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS
✶ Mercury's funeral service was conducted on 27 November 1991 by
a Zoroastrian priest at West London Crematorium
✶ He spent and donated to charity much of his wealth during his lifetime,
with his estate valued around £8 million at the time of his death
✶ He bequeathed his home, Garden Lodge, and the adjoining Mews, as well as
a 50% of all privately owned shares, to Mary Austin
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