Freddie mercury wife
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Being Faroukh Bulsara
In the pantheon of rock star decadence, there’s one name that shines brighter than all others combined. Freddie Mercury was a man who did everything by extremes. The lead-singer of Queen, he possessed a personality bigger, brasher, and more flamboyant than even the band’s loudest songs. It was Freddie who threw the greatest party this side of Ancient Rome, in New Orleans in 1978. It was Freddie who turned seduction into a high-tempo art form; rushing offstage between songs to bed another beautiful man, before rushing back on again. Yet this showmanship went beyond mere hedonism. It was also Freddie who, in 1985, played a Live Aid set so bombastic, it’s estimated to have got a staggering 40% of the world’s population rocking along with him.
But while his lifestyle remains legendary, there was another side to Mercury. One far more complex than his onstage persona would suggest. Born to Indian Parsi parents, Freddie was a perpetual outsider. Arriving in Britain in 1964, he had to operate in a world in which both his ethnicity and sexuality marked him out as
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Biography
1946 - 1991
"When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance."
- Freddie Mercury
Born in 1946 to Bombay-born Parsi parents living in Zanzibar, Farrokh Bulsara’s musical talent first revealed itself during his early years as a pupil at an English-style boarding school in India. It was at St. Peter’s School, Panchgani that he anglicised his name to Freddie. The violent Zanzibar Revolution of 1964, during which thousands were slaughtered, sent the Bulsaras running for their lives to England, where relatives took them in. Freddie studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Ealing College of Art, graduating in 1969 at the age of 23. His adoration of Jimi Hendrix led him to join a series of bands. The most promising, Smile, metamorphosed into Queen. It was then that he abandoned his family name for the surname ‘Mercury’. His distinctive baritone voice, his ability to extend his three-octave vocal range with a variety of vibrato and distortion techniques, his strutting, seductive showmanship and his ability to connect with his
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Biography
Born Freddie
The life of Frederick Bulsara began on the East African island of Zanzibar on September 5, 1946. 25 years later in London under the name of Freddie Mercury he was fronting the now legendary rock group named Queen.
The son of Bomi and Jer Bulsara, Freddie spent the bulk of his childhood in India where he attended St. Peter’s boarding school. He began taking piano lessons at the age of seven. No one could foresee where a love of music would take him.
The Bulsara family moved to Middlesex in 1964 and from there Freddie joined up with a blues band called Wreckage while studying graphic design courses at Ealing College of 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 joined Roger and Brian as the lead vocalist. The final member of the band, which was to stay together for the next 20 years, was bassist John Deacon, who joined the band on 1st of March 1971.
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