Freddie Mercury - The Great Pretender (18 photos)

November 24 was 21 years since the death of Freddie Mercury. Freddie Merkyuri- legendary vocalist of the legendary band not less than «Queen». Mercury was born in Zanzibar. His fame singer and musician remains one of the most exciting in the history of music. November 23, 1991 Freddie Mercury made an official statement that he had AIDS, and the next day he died of bronchial pneumonia, developed against AIDS.



 

Freddy on his fourth birthday in Zanzibar in the prayer cap and a traditional wreath. (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



Fire on the road to the temple to celebrate a birthday. Usually the family went there by taxi, but his mother Jer says that on that day she wanted in memory of her son remained rickshaw ride. (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



With seven years of Freddie attended school at St. Peter in Panchgani, India. He even won the "Best Student". (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



Freddie studied at Ealing Art College with Peter Townsend and Ronnie Wood. It was here that he began to think about how to make a career in the music world. In the last year of his studies, he joined the group «Ibex». In this photo he is resting with the other members of the group in Kensington. (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



Photo shoot for the band «Queen» Freddie in an apartment in Holland Park. (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



Freddy during a photo shoot in Primrose Hill Sevres London in September 1974. (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



Freddie parents Jer and Bomi Bulsara during their visit to his apartment in Kensington. (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



Freddie backstage concert in London in November 1974. (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



These photos made guitarist «Queen» Brian May on the stereo camera. "I almost everywhere carried with him this camera - May says. - These photos can be viewed in the "magic eye". The result is a fully believable 3D image. " (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



"Duck House" on the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland became a refuge from the paparazzi Freddie at the end of his career. Here he wrote his last song «Queen» and where he wrote the last song «A Winter's Tale». (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



Concert in red leather pants and iconic bandages. (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



Concert in New York as part of the tour, "Night at the Opera." Freddie loved this city for the time when renting apartments. He told his friends that it was in New York can feel "the common man". (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



At a concert in the UK as part of the tour, "Night at the Opera." (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



39th birthday Freddie in Munich, Germany. He invited close friends for a holiday masquerade, and then took a couple of video clips of this holiday for his solo single, «Living on my own». But then his record company banned the showing of this movie. The full version of the world saw only a re-entry of the track in 1993. This is - one of the photos from the event. (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



Work on the first solo album «Mr. Bad Guy »in Munich. (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



All photos in this post were taken from the book "Freddie Mercury The Great Pretender". (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



Mom Freddie Mercury, which is already 89 years old, with a book in which were printed all these photos, including those that have never been published. (FROM THE BOOK, FREDDIE MERCURY, THE GREAT PRETENDER)



Source: bigpicture.ru/

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