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Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury
(biography, photos, videos) Farrukh Bulsara
Name: Freddie Mercury (Farrukh Bulsara )
Date of birth: September 5, 1946
Age:45 years
Date of death: November 24, 1991
Place of birth: Zanzibar, Tanzania
Height: 177
Activity: British singer of Parsi origin, leader of the rock band Queen
Marital status: Never married
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Freddie Mercury: a biography
Farrukh Bulsara, whom we know as the iconic vocalist of the band "Queen" Freddie Mercury, was born in Tanzania in 1946.
Farrukh's parents, Bomi and Jer, were Parsis (followers of the teachings of Zoroaster).
6 years after the appearance of a son, a daughter of Kashmir was born in the Bulsar family.
At that time, the family moved to India and stayed in Bombay.
6 year old Farrukh was sent to school.
The educational institution was located quite far from Bombay, in the city of Panchgani.
The boy's grandfather and aunt lived there, with whom he stayed.
At school, English speaking classmates began calling Farrukh "Freddie".
Freddie was a diligent student.
He quickly became interested in sports, choosing hockey, tennis and boxing for himself.
And the boy became interested in music and painting.
He drew well, distributing drawings to all friends and relatives.
But most of all, Farrukh loved to sing.
Classes in the school choir took up a lot of his time.
The school director drew attention to the excellent vocal of the student.
He offered the boy's parents to develop his abilities in piano playing courses, promising to take care of a small price.
Thus, Freddie Mercury began to attend music courses.
Upon graduation, he was marked as the best student.
At the age of 12, Freddie and his friends organized a rock band, calling it "The Psychos" (The Hectics).
The children played and sang at school discos and wherever they were accepted.
In 1962, the future leader of "Queen", who turned 16, graduated from school in India and returned to Zanzibar, where his parents moved again.
After 2 years, the power on the island changed: Zanzibar declared its independence from England.
Riots began.
Bulsar's family moved to London.
In 1965, the guy became a student at the prestigious Ealing College, where he studied painting and design, and also continues to study music and ballet dancing.
Mercury calls Jimi Hendrix and Rudolf Nureyev his idols.
While studying at Ealing, Freddie left his parents ' house and rented an apartment in the Kensington district, where the London bohemians settled.
Bulsara rented housing together with his friend and musician Chris Smith.
During this time, Freddie also met a college colleague Tim Staffel.
Tim was the leader of the musical group "Smile".
Soon Freddie began to attend the band's rehearsals, where he met all the musicians.
He became particularly close to the drummer Roger Taylor, to whom he soon moved.
After graduating from college in 1969, 23 year old Freddie came out with a diploma in graphic design.
He drew a lot.
Together with Taylor, they opened a small shop where, among other goods, Bulsar's works were sold.
In the same year, Freddie meets the musicians of the group "Ibex" from Liverpool.
After a few days, he knew the entire repertoire of "Ibex" and even added some of his songs.
After the breakup of Ibex, Freddie, who could not imagine his future life without music, found a new band with the help of a newspaper ad.
It was called "Sour Milk Sea" ("Sour Milk Sea").
The newcomer was accepted as soon as they saw and heard what he was capable of.
Freddie moved perfectly, and his voice in 4 octaves did not leave anyone indifferent.
After one of the musicians left him, the band broke up.
But in its place, a new one was born, which was called "Queen".
It consisted of musicians from two previous groups.
In 1971, the composition of "Queen" after many changes becomes permanent.
Freddie drew the coat of arms of the band with the letter Q in the center and the zodiac signs of the musicians around.
In 1972, when the band was recording their debut album, Freddie changed the name of Bulsara, taking the creative pseudonym Mercury.
Soon, a song written by Freddie Mercury called "Seven Seas of Rhye" hits the UK charts.
And a year later, in 1874, the first hit "Queen" appeared - the song "Killer Queen".
Immediately after it came the most successful song of the group "Bohemian Rhapsody".
It stayed at the top of the charts for 9 weeks.
The first video clip was shot for it.
Later, "Bohemian Rhapsody"was named the best song of the millennium by The Official Charts Company.
The second hit "We Are The Champions" becomes the unofficial anthem of the champions of sports competitions and Olympiads.
In 1975, the band toured Japan.
This was not the first foreign tour of "Queen", by that time the musicians had already performed in the United States.
But such a resounding success happened for the first time.
The musicians felt like stars.
It was then that Freddie Mercury fell in love with the land of the rising sun and began collecting objects of Japanese art.
In October 1979, the dream of a musician from Zanzibar comes true: with his hits "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", Mercury performed together with the Royal Ballet.
The following year, Freddie radically changed his image: he cut his hair short for the first time.
In 1982, the band announced a break in the touring schedule for a year.
Mercury took advantage of the respite and recorded his first solo album in Munich.
In May of the following year, the musician met Montserrat Caballe.
July 13, 1985 can be considered the peak of the musical career of Mercury and "Queen".
The band participated in a grand show at Wembley Stadium, where Elton John, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Sting and many other stars sang in addition to them.
But it was Mercury's performance that was unanimously recognized as the main performance and the highlight of the program.
The 75 thousandth crowd during the performance of "Queen" experienced a real euphoria.
It was after this concert that Freddie became a rock legend.
A year later, the band made its last tour under the name "Magic Tour".
Within its framework, the last concerts were held together with Freddie Mercury.
This time, 120 thousand fans gathered at Wembley Stadium.
Later, the concert was published under the title "Queen at Wembley".
The tour ended in Knebworth.
Mercury did not perform with the band again.
In the spring of 1987, Freddie and Montserrat Caballe began working on a joint album, which was called "Barcelona" and was released in October 1988.
At the same time, a joint concert of the singer and the opera diva took place in Barcelona.
This was the last performance of the legend.
Illness and death Rumors about Freddie Mercury's illness appeared back in 1986.
Information that the singer passed an HIV test was leaked to the press.
In 1989, the disturbing rumors, which Mercury himself denied to the last, were confirmed: Freddie lost a lot of weight.
His haggard appearance was the most convincing proof of a terrible illness.
During this period, Mercury worked hard with the last of his strength, realizing that there was a lot to do.
He recorded songs for the following two albums: "The Miracle "(1989) and" Innuendo " (1991).
The clips for the latter are black and white.
This was the only way to disguise Freddie's changed appearance.
On November 23, 1991, Mercury made an official statement that he had AIDS.
The next day, November 24, Freddie was gone.
He was buried according to the Zoroastrian rite, retreating only in one thing: the body was cremated.
Only relatives were present at the funeral.
Only Mary Austin's family and friend knew where Mercury's ashes were buried.
In 2013, fans found a burial place: this is Kensal Green Cemetery in west London.
Personal life Freddie Mercury met the closest person in his life, Mary Austin, in 1969.
After several years of living together, they broke up: Freddie admitted that he was bisexual.
But the friendship and close relationship between the couple remained until Mercury's death.
Austin was Freddie's personal secretary.
He dedicated the song "Love of My Life"to her.
It was Mary Austin who left the musician his mansion and most of his fortune.
He was the godfather of her eldest son Richard.
Later, Mercury had a brief affair with actress Barbara Valentine.
After Freddie's death, conversations about his orientation did not stop.
There were interviews with his friends, in which they confirmed that the musician was gay.
This was stated by Brian May and Roger Taylor, who knew Mercury closely.
George Michael told about the singer's bisexuality, and Freddie's personal assistant Peter Freestone published a memoir in which he mentioned several men with whom the musician allegedly had a close relationship.
Jim Hutton told about his 6 year relationship with the legend in the book "Mercury and me".
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