1991 "I'm Going Slightly mad" |
In this Free Topic I would like to talk a little about my favorite artist Freddie Mercury, global icon and a great person!
Biography:Freddie Mercury His original name was Farrokh Bulsara was born on September 5, 1946.Born on the island of Zanzibar (Tanzania). In April 1970, Mercury met guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, who had previously been in a band called Smile. Despite the reservations of other members, Mercury chose the name "Queen" for the new band. Then I would say about this: "I was warned about the gay connotations, but that's just one facet of the name." At that time, also changed his surname to Mercury, because in his words, in the song "My Fairy King" in the verse "Mercury Mother, Look What They've Done To Me", singing about her own mother . He believed that the name "Freddie Mercury" had "power."
1986 Live at Wembly - Magic Tour |
Freddie Mercury had a solo career and occasionally he produced and participated in events such as guest musician for other artists. Mercury, who was a Parsi and raised in India, is considered "the first Asian rock star in Britain." By the year 1985, Mercury began another long-term relationship with a hairdresser named Jim Hutton, who discovered in 1990 that was HIV positive and lived with Mercury the last six years of his lifetime. Hutton died of lung cancer on January 1, 2010.
1991 "I'm Going Slightly mad" |
Despite having cultivated a very flamboyant personality, Mercury was a shy and reserved, especially those who did not know bien.Además used to give few interviews. He once said of himself: "When I'm onstage I'm very outgoing, but inside I'm completely different."
He died of bronchopneumonia complicated by AIDS on November 24, 1991 at the age of 45, just one day after officially communicating this last illness he suffered.
He died of bronchopneumonia complicated by AIDS on November 24, 1991 at the age of 45, just one day after officially communicating this last illness he suffered.
1986 Magic Tour Queen at Wembly |
Career: "A native of Rock Opera "
- As a Singer:
- As a Singer:
Although Mercury's voice when talking fell on the baritone range, usually sang in the tenor range.
- As a composer:
Mercury wrote ten of the seventeen songs on the album Greatest Hits I: "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Seven Seas of Rhye", "Killer Queen" "Somebody to Love", "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy", "We Are the Champions "," Bicycle Race "," Do not Stop Me Now "," Crazy Little Thing Called Love "and" Play the Game. "
- Race solo:
"These Are The Days of Our Lives" 1991 |
Besides his work with Queen, Mercury recorded two solo albums and released several singles. Although his works were not as commercially successful as his albums with Queen, they debuted in the Top 10 entering the UK charts.
Freddie Mercury albums as a soloist was Mr. Bad Guy (1985) and Barcelona (1988). The first is a style based on pop music and disco. Barcelona, however, was recorded with opera singer Montserrat Caballé, whom he admired. Mr. Bad Guy was featured in its launch in tenth place in sales charts in England. In 1993, a remixed version of "Living On My Own", a first single from their album, reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. The song also made Mercury won a posthumous Ivor Novello Award. Besides his two solo albums, Mercury released several other singles, including their own version of the song "The Great Pretender", which stood in fifth place in England in 1987. In September 2006, a compilation album of some work on Mercury as a soloist was released in the UK, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of his birth. The record tenth place in sales charts."Body Languaje" Queen |
Today, Freddie Mercury is one of the icons in the global campaign against AIDS, a native rock opera style, Queen Panel Central Figure and Freddie !!!....... my favorite artist in the memory forever the world!!
Aarón Mercury!
Thanks Freddie for your Legacy!