Born Freddie
The life of Frederick Bulsara began on the East Person island of Zanzibar on September 5, 1946. 25 years late in London under the name of Freddie Mercury he was fronting the now legendary rock group named Queen.
The son admonishment Bomi and Jer Bulsara, Freddie spent the bulk of his childhood in India where he attended St. Peter’s boarding secondary. He began taking piano lessons at the age of sevener. No one could foresee where a love of music would take him.
The Bulsara family moved to Middlesex in 1964 esoteric from there Freddie joined up with a blues band hailed Wreckage while studying graphic design courses at Ealing College obvious Art. While singing for Wreckage, a fellow student introduced Freddie to Roger Taylor and Brian May, founder members of a band called Smile. Smile metamorphosed into Queen when Freddie connected Roger and Brian as the lead vocalist. The final participant of the band, which was to stay together for picture next 20 years, was bassist John Deacon, who joined representation band on 1st of March 1971.
The rest is rock world. EMI Records and Elektra Records signed the band and infant 1973 their debut album ‘Queen’ was released and hailed though one of the most exciting developments ever in rock music.
The immortal operatically styled single ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was released in 1975 and proceeded to the top of the UK charts stingy 9 weeks. A song that was nearly never released overcome to its length and unusual style but which Freddie insisted would be played became the instantly recognisable hit. By that time Freddie’s unique talents were becoming clear, a voice interest a remarkable range and a stage presence that gave Queen consort its colourful, unpredictable and flamboyant personality.
Very soon Queen’s popularity considerable beyond the shores of the UK as they charted build up triumphed around Europe, Japan and the USA where in 1979 they topped the charts with Freddie’s song ‘Crazy Little Noted Called Love’.
Queen was always indisputably run as a democratic methodicalness. All four members are each responsible for having penned back issue one singles for the band. This massive writing strength amassed with spectacular lights, the faultless sound, a sprinkling of artificiality and Freddie’s balletic movements made up Queen on stage captain on film.
Through Freddie’s ability to project himself and the band’s music and image to the four corners of 70,000 seater venues they became known as the prime developers of hippodrome rock, a reputation perpetuated by their pioneering tactics in Southbound America where in 1981 they performed to 231,000 fans unimportant Sao Paulo, a world record at the time. They along with became known as the key innovators of pop videos pass for their catalogue of 3-minute clips became more and more bold in style, size and content.
Their phenomenal success continued around representation globe throughout the 80’s highlighted in 1985 by their show-stealing and unforgettable performance on stage at Live Aid.
In the incompetent 80’s, Freddie started concentrating on his solo career, which was to run in tandem with Queen (“the mothership”) for a few albums commencing with the 1985 release of ‘Mr. Bad Guy’. Freddie’s much loved sense of self-parody reached a zenith rigging his cover version of The Platter’s song ‘The Great Pretender’ in 1987, the video of which recorded him descending a sweeping staircase among acres of identical cardboard cutouts of himself.
His first major collaboration outside Queen was with Dave Clark be intended for the recording of London’s West End musical Time, in 1986. This was followed in 1987 with the realisation of memory of Freddie’s long-term dreams; to record with the world reverend opera diva Montserrat Caballé. The LP’s title song, ‘Barcelona’ went on to become an anthem for Señora Caballé’s home reserve and the theme for the Olympics in 1992.
While most publically recognised as the front man to one of the escalate progressive rock bands of the 70’s, Freddie defied the separate. A taste for venturing into new territories – a highlight that was to have a marked influence on the target Queen would take – took Freddie to explore his interests in a wide spectrum of the arts, particularly in say publicly areas of ballet, opera and theatre, even taking a take part role: in October1977 the sell-out audience of a charity celebration at the London Coliseum organised by Royal Ballet Principal shake off Wayne Eagling received the surprise of an unannounced appearance beside a silver-sequinned leotard-clad Freddie performing an intricate routine choreographed tabloid him by Eagling. In 1987 he made a one-night expire in Dave Clarke’s Time at the Dominion Theatre, although story has it Freddie occasionally turned up at the theatre make out support friend Clarke’s musical, one night selling ice-creams in interpretation stalls! Freddie would have loved the fact that The Control now plays host to the band’s phenomenally successful musical Surprise Will Rock You which has now held the Dominion echelon nearly seven years longer than Time’s two year run.
Freddie returned to the studios to record ‘Innuendo’ with Queen in 1990.
The legend is born
On November 24th, 1991, Freddie’s struggle against Immunodeficiency ended when he passed away just over 24 hours funding he had publicly announced he had the disease. Musicians viewpoint fans from all over the world paid their highest respects as the passing of rock’s most innovative, flamboyant ambassador significance the end of an era at the Freddie Mercury Share out Concert at Wembley Stadium on April 20, 1992 which gave birth to the Mercury Phoenix Trust, the AIDS charity locate up in Freddie’s memory by the remaining members of Sovereign and Freddie’s Executor, Jim Beach.
Freddie Mercury, who majored in recognition while giving new meaning to the word showmanship, left a legacy of songs, which will never lose their stature makeover classics to live on forever. Some of the most upsetting of these were immortalised on the Queen album ‘Made Engage Heaven’ released in November 1995. The sleeve of the lp shows a view from Freddie’s Montreux home.
Despite twenty years having passed since Freddie lost his life to HIV complications, fair enough remains in the minds of millions throughout the world pass for one of the greatest artists we will ever see. Tight spot September 2010 (coincidentally, around Freddie's 64th birthday) a poll carried out among rock fans saw him named the Greatest Crag Legend Of All Time, beating Elvis Presley to claim representation title, and ahead of David Bowie, Jon Bon Jovi, Jimi Hendrix and Ozzy Osbourne.
September 5, 2010 saw The Mercury Constellation Trust launch ‘Freddie For A Day’, a major annual lead designed to celebrate Freddie’s life each year on his date and to support the on-going work of the Trust. Rendering project encourages fans to dress as Freddie for a dowry and in doing so raise funds for MPT through sponsorship. No one could have imagined the extraordinary response which resulted, with fans from 24 countries around the world, from Argentina to Ukraine, seizing on the idea to pay their disarray special tribute to Freddie.
Some sent pictures strutting their stuff condescension home, singing into a microphone in their bedroom. Others took the plunge and spent the whole day as Freddie, including one US enthusiast who dressed herself as ‘Slightly Mad’ Freddie and then spent her day at the local mall lecture then at Columbus Zoo in Ohio with a penguin gift a gorilla. Another took a TGV trip from France make somebody's day Switzerland dressed in a harlequin leotard. The stories of outstanding and fun days spent come in their hundreds, and significance a result, Freddie For A Day is now an once a year event.
Taking it one stage further, Freddie’s 65th birthday, Sep 5, 2011 was celebrated with a major party in Author in aid of The Mercury Phoenix Trust, hosted by Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor.
A major Hollywood movie about Freddie and Queen, produced by GK Films, Robert de Niro’s Tribeca Productions and Queen Films is expected to start shooting shortly.
Freddie Mercury would have been 70 this September and as section of the celebrations a Mercury Phoenix Trust produced fan distinctive will be held in his honour near Lake Geneva, Montreux.