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FREDDY MERCURY & QUEEN
Freddy Mercury, the lead singer for Queen, whose worldwide hits combined theatrical pomp with heavy metal, was born September 5th 1946 on the African island of Zanzibar, in the family of a British government accountant.
His real name was Frederick Bulsara. He was raised in Bombay, India, and moved to England with his parents shortly before reaching his teens. Earning a degree in graphic design at art college, he joined a local blues-rock group called Wreckage. He called himself Freddy Mercury after the mythological messenger of the gods.
He was definitely a man who could hold an audience in the palm of his hand. Beginning in the early seventies Mercury – who called Jimi Hendrix and Lisa Minelli as his main influences – led Queen through 18 albums that sold 80 million copies worldwide. The other Queen members: Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon say he was the band’s driving force, a tremendously creative man.
“I had an idea of calling a group Queen for a long time”, Freddie said in the interview. “It was a very strong name, very universal, it had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations.”
The debut album of the group called Queen (1973) went unnoticed, but its more eclectic Queen-2 (1974) made the British charts. The group’s third effort Sheer Heart Attack made it popular in America on the strength of a hit single about a high-class callgirl Killer Queen.
After the successful tours in the US and Japan Queen recorded A Night In The Opera highlighted by Mercury over-the-top Bohemian Rhapsody with the famous opera section.
The next album News of the World went platinum in the US thanks to Mercury’s We Are the Champions and May’s We Will Rock You. Both songs became instant hits.
After their next album called Jazz, Queen reigned as one of the biggest rock-acts in the world, a position, strengthened by Crazy Little Thing Called Love (1979), Another One Bites the Dust, Under Pressure, Radio Ga-Ga, Body Language and others.
According to his producer, making records with Mercury was like one continuous party. Freddie had a fabulous sense of humour and was absolutely outrageous. But when he went out in public he was very quiet. He had the power to vibrate the air around him at will, yet he could also turn it off. He never had a desire to be seen everywhere, what was happening in his own life was more important to him.
Excess also defined his private life. He often boasted he’d had more lovers than Elizabeth Taylor. Freddie always looked like a star and acted like a star even when he was penniless.
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When he learned he had AIDS and realized the end was coming, he faced it with incredible bravery. In his statement before the death he explained that he had waited so long to tell the truth about his illness because his privacy had always been very special to him.
On November 24th 1991 he died in his London home. A brief funeral service in Zoroastrian faith was held for his family and friends.
Freddy Mercury was one of the most beloved persons in the history of rock and he is missed and will be missed primarily as a personality.
(Adapted from Rolling Stone)
TRUE OR FALSE?
1. Freddy Mercury was born in the Indian Ocean.
2. He believed in Jesus Christ.
3. He spent his childhood in India.
4. He finished an art college in Bombay.
5. Before joining Queen he sang with Jimi Hendrix.
6. Queen Elizabeth suggested calling the group Queen.
7. Killer Queen is the name of their first album.
8. He liked to tell people about his private life.
9. The audience was completely under his power at the concerts.
10. He died of AIDS.
KILLER QUEEN
She keeps Moet et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
‘Let them eat cake’ she says
Just like Marie Antoinette
A built-in remedy
For Kruschev and Kennedy
At any time an invitation
You can’t decline
Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice
Chorus:
She’s a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
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Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation
She spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from China
Went down to Geisha Minah
Then again incidentally
If you’re that way inclined
Perfume came naturally from Paris
For cars she couldn’t care less
Fastidious and precise
Chorus:
Drop of a hat she's as willing as
Playful as a pussy cat
Then momentarily out of action
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Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely drive you wild, wild..
She's all out to get you
Chorus:
Recommended at the price
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Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
You wanna try...
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