John Lennon and Freddie Mercury sing Imagine 1971

Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London
by Scott Cohen


More than anything else, Freddie Mercury wants to be a legend. The vehicle for the 28 year-old "Kensington poseur" is a rock'n'roll band called Queen, and the meticolous Mercury seems to have the situation neatly in hand. He came up with the band's name, he designed their crest (combining the star signs of its members), and he defines their style.

"The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic," he told the English press early in their career. "Glamour is a part of us and we want to be dandy. We want to shock and be outrageously...

Freddie Mercury was an amazing singer. He had the best voice of all voices in history. If there were all the best singers in history in one place and I had to choose one winner, I would choose Freddie as #1. Freddie had a hard life, he had Paul Prenter stand in his way and he had AIDS. Freddie tried really hard to fight against AIDS and sadly, he lost. I miss Freddie so much. 20 years after Freddie’s death, Brian May and Roger Taylor weren’t ready to quit yet, so they hired a new lead singer, Adam Lambert. Lambert had a good voice, but, it just can’t replace Freddie’s. John Deacon wasn’t...

Twenty years after the death of rock’s most famous singer, and with a lavish book of rare photographs about to be published, his mother, Jer Bulsara, talks to Angela Levin about how she coped with his transformation from Farrokh Bulsara to Freddie Mercury.



Freddie Mercury’s mother was watching the Olympic closing ceremony when her adored son’s image suddenly appeared on a vast screen. “I cried out: 'Oh my dear boy, where are you?’” she tells me. “I miss him so much.” A cheeky smile then spreads across her face. “They showed John Lennon too, but there was much more applause...