Video: 28 years without Freddie Mercury: Little-known facts about the legendary musician
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
28 years ago, on November 24, 1991, the legendary singer and musician, lead singer of the Queen group Freddie Mercury passed away. At that time he was only 45 years old. With his departure, an entire era of rock music of the twentieth century ended. These are well-known facts. But there were moments in his biography that he himself preferred not to talk about …
The fact that Freddie Mercury is a pseudonym is known to all fans of the musician. He himself did not hide this, although he lost his temper when they called him by his real name - Farrukh Bulsara. The singer rarely spoke about his homeland and childhood - he was not ashamed of his past, but preferred to live in the present and not remember what was once.
He was born on September 5, 1946 on the island of Zanzibar. His parents were Parsis by nationality - a people of Iranian origin, whose representatives profess Zoroastrianism. The name Farrukh was then very common among them, translated from Farsi it meant “happy”, “lucky”, “beautiful”. He won his first victory at the age of 1, when his photo won the “Photo of the Year” title at a local competition. And when Farrukh became a world-class star, he liked to repeat: ""
Parents raised their son and daughter in national traditions, and from their youth they attended the Zoroastrian temple and participated in all the rituals and celebrations of fire worshipers, the first of which was the initiation ceremony into the Zoroastrian faith. Even then, Farrukh showed musical talent. His mother said: "". His parents wanted to give him a good education, but in Zanzibar they did not see such an opportunity, and when Farrukh was 8 years old, he was sent to study in India.
It was an elite English-language school in the city of Panchgani. It was there that classmates began to call him in the English manner of Freddie, and he liked this name. He talked a little about his school years: "". The birth of the star Freddie Mercury was associated not only with the emergence of a new name: the music teacher drew attention to his ability to play any melody heard on the radio on the piano, and advised him to study music. Soon Freddie began performing on the school stage with his first band, The Hectics. And at the age of 12 he was awarded the Cup "for all-round giftedness."
Already during the first concerts, his peculiarity was manifested to be transformed beyond recognition on stage. In everyday life, Freddie was very shy, quiet, withdrawn and secretive, and during the performance he showed a violent temperament and incredible artistry.
In 1964, when armed clashes broke out on the island of Zanzibar, Freddie's family moved with him to England, where the young man continued his studies at Ealing College. There, in addition to music, he was engaged in design and painting, in which he also demonstrated success. Together with other college students, Freddie became a member of the Smile music group. Later she was renamed Queen, and Freddie took the pseudonym Mercury.
The words that Freddie Mercury most often repeated in interviews were probably the following phrases: “”; "". He considered his main task to give joy and pleasure to the audience at his concerts. Nevertheless, after the release of Bohemian Rhapsody, the name of Freddie Mercury became synonymous with the musical revolution.
Freddie Mercury did not like to give interviews and avoided talking about his personal life. He confessed: "" But this is where his revelations ended. On further questions about his sexual preferences, the singer replied: "".
The only woman with whom the singer was in a long-term relationship (for 7 years) was his youthful love Mary Austin. Their union broke up after Freddie confessed to his beloved that he was bisexual, but even after parting, the couple managed to maintain warm friendly feelings for life. It was Mary who became his most devoted friend, and after his departure - the main heiress of the rock idol.
Only his closest friends and musicians of his group knew that the singer was sick with AIDS. In the last 2 years of his life, the Queen band stopped concert activity - Freddie wanted to record as many new songs as possible before leaving. The clips for the last album were filmed in black and white to hide the singer's exhausted state. And the album itself was released after Freddie's death.
Until the last moment, he hid his diagnosis from the general public and officially announced this only a day before his departure: "". On November 24, 1991, Freddie Mercury died of pneumonia, which developed against the background of AIDS.
The singer called this woman his only friend and only wife: Freddie Mercury and Mary Austin.
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