Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Freddie Mercury the only Music Legend

By James Albert


Freddie Mercury is one of many best stars in the music business. He captured the hearts of the people worldwide with his music and compositions. His real name is "Farrokh Bulsara" and he was born on September 5, 1946 in the tiny spice tropical island of Zanzibar. His parents were Persian, Bomi and Jer Bulsara. He grew up in an typical family and at the age of eight, Freddie was send to St. Peter's English boarding university located in Panchgani.

At St Peter's he spend his primary and secondary education and it was a British school. His close friends started to call him Freddie and he showed good sportsmanship by joining several sports and winning several games. Besides sports he also has an exceptional talent in art and music. Freddie also took piano training and started to be a member of school choir. Along with school mates, they formed the school's rock'n roll music group and named it 'Hectics.' They do performances in college celebrations and throughout special events. He spent his college in Isleworth Polytechnic and Ealing College of Art and took up graphic illustrating training course.

He met the band of his good friend Tim called Smile that made him motivated once again in playing piano. He began practicing with his own buddies who definitely are extremely amazed on his unique means of playing piano. Right after graduation having a degree in graphic arts and design he started selling his artwork for profits.

At the age of 23, he was introduced to the band referred to as Ibex and given the chance to become one of its members but at some point the music group was ruined so Freddie searched for another rock band. He found Sour Milk Sea and became its lead pop star but just right after few weeks the band had the identical fate. Freddie had the chance to become a member of the music group of Smile as a lead singer and change the name of the band to 'Queen'.

Freddie composed Bohemian Rhapsody, a very famous song and known all around the globe. It was performed by his band Queen and released its 1975 album "A Night at the Opera." This track is so unique, having no chorus however with three main parts; the ballad, the guitar solo, and the hard rock. Bohemian Rhapsody became the most expensive single ever produced and one of probably the most popular in the music history. It's probably the most effective songs of Queen. He also wrote several songs named the Seven Seas of Rhye, We Are the Champions, Killer Queen, Somebody to Love, Play the Game, Bicycle Race, Don't Stop Me Now, Crazy Little Things Called Love and Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy. Freddie also altered his impression by cutting his hair and grew a moustache.

He also had solo records and singles aside from his work with Queen. His two full albums outside of the rock band were Mr. Bad Guy in 1985 and Barcelona in 1988. Mr. Bad Guy is a pop-oriented album good for disco and dance tunes while Barcelona was recorded and performed with Montserrat Caballe. Both records received overwhelming success.

Freddie met Mary Austin early in 1970 with whom he cherished for seven years but separated and remained friends. He left the majority of his wealth to Mary Austin after he died because he considered her as his only genuine friend. He even produced several songs devoted to her and one of this is "Love of My life"

During their July 13, 1985 performance at Live Aid in Wembley Arena together with around 72,000 people, Queen guaranteed their place in the music history. In spite of all the success, Freddie Mercury faced several issues especially in sex-related orientation as a bisexual. He previously had also numerous partnerships with men and bisexual and one of them is Jim Hutton. He spent the final six years of his life with this particular male.

He grew to become terribly ill with AIDS but he didn't want people to find out about this so he continued producing songs and making video clips. He passed away November 24, 1991 with bronchial pneumonia as one of the complication of Aids.

A live concert was held in Wembley Arena on April 20, 1992 as a tribute to the memory of Freddie Mercury. An album named "Made in Heaven" was also release on November 6, 1995 by the 3 remaining members of Queen as a finest tribute to their friend.




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