Freddie Mercury (Farook Boulzara) was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania
on 5 September. His father was a British diplomat. He was raised
in a protected environment. His father was a rich man, they had
a big house with several servants. When Freddie was 15 years old
they went to south-London, not far from the airport Heathrow. Because
of the accent he had and the foreign look he had he was an outsider.
He played the piano for the first time when he was seven. He always
had the ambition to become famous in the music business. Because
Freddie had good marks at school he was allowed to go to the academy
of arts. When he became to sing in several school bands he changed
his last name in Mercury. In this period there were no things which
would suggest that Freddie had exclusive qualities. He passed his
exam in the end of the swinging sixties. At this time he met Brian
May. The band Smile asked Freddie to sing by them. From that time
they called the band Queen. Freddie Mercury (vocals), Brian May
(guitar)), John deacon (bas guitar) and Roger Taylor (drums) had
found each other. Queen had launched itself as a new Gram-Rock band,
but it seemed to be that they could become more than that. Freddie
always wanted to be other than others. When most of the rock-stars
were wearing jackets Freddie wearied make-up. He never made a secret
of that he was bisexual. Because of that Queen was interesting for
many people; gays, girls, boys and teenagers. The
first singles didn't sell very good. The first hit Queen scored
in England was "Seven seas of Rhye" , it reached the 10th place.
This single was followed by "Killer Queen" (number 2) and "Now I'm
Here" (number 10). Queen was still relative unknown until "Bohemian
Rhapsody" (number 1, 1975). It was from the very strange album "A
night at the opera". The successor was "Your mybest friend" , it
reached the 7th place. After that the Queen fan group was growing
and growing. To entertain this public the developed the stadion-rock
phenomenon. This came to an height iFebruaryuari 1981, when Queen
played in Brazil for many many people! In August 1984 Queen gave
8 concerts in Sun City, South-Africa which all were sold out. After
that they played "Live Aid". This was a concert they held for starving
people in Ethiopia. It was a great success. Queen had sold more
than 100 million albums at this time. One of the greatest things
of Queen was they always changed there style of music without losing
their fans. The contrast between "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We are the
champions", "Who wants to live forever" and the number 1 hit "Crazy
little thing called love" proves Queen's originality. Freddie wrote
this number while he was sitting in bath. Freddie has bad successful
duets. Probably the most famous is "Under pressure" which he sang
with David Bowie. Although he had it very busy with all this he
always found some time to party. He liked it to do crazy things;
he gave parties with stripteases and cocaine. Yes, Queen has had
a very great time but in 1991 it came to an end. Freddie Mercury
died because of aids. It was a shock to the world. The tribute concert
to Freddie Mercury brang 60 million guilders to the aids fund. The
concert started with the most famous song "Bohemian Rhapsody" Nobody
new in the beginning which great artist would give a performance
but it was sold out in three ours. This was the last great spectacle
dedicated to Freddie. But in many, many hearts he still lives further.
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