‘Another One Bites the Dust’ and ‘You’re My Best Friend’ were bassist John Deacon’s, while guitarist Brian May wrote ‘We Will Rock You’. ‘Radio Ga Ga’ was drummer Roger Taylor’s. Freddie penned ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’, ‘We Are the Champions’, ‘Killer Queen’. Musically diverse, courageous and endlessly experimental, Queen’s studio albums showcased a string of songs that both confounded and celebrated all genres. 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 audience made him one of the most thrilling rock performers of all time. It was then that he abandoned his family name for the surname ‘Mercury’. The most promising, Smile, metamorphosed into Queen. His adoration of Jimi Hendrix led him to join a series of bands. Freddie studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Ealing College of Art, graduating in 1969 at the age of 23. 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. Peter’s School, Panchgani that he anglicised his name to Freddie. "When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance."īorn 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.
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