Freddie Mercury Word

Early Life: Farrokh (Freddie) Bulsara, grew up in Stone Town,
Zanzibar, East Africa. He later moved to the Bombay Presidency in

British India.
At the age of seven he started taking piano lessons. When he was
eight, he was sent to study at St Peters School, a British style
boarding school for boys. At this school is where he began to call
himself Freddie. His most influential music figure of that time was
Bollywood singer Lata Mangeshkar. He had this large habit to copy
what he heard on radio and try it on the piano.
At the age of 17, he and his family fled to Britain because of the
Zanzibar revolution where thousand of Arabs were killed.

Queen: Queen is a British rock band formed in the 70s. Even those
who dont know who they are, would know their songs like We
Will Rock You, We Are The Champions and Somebody To Love.
The band consists of Freddie Mercury (Vocals), Roger Taylor
(Drums), Brain May (Guitar) and John Deacon (Bass guitar).
Queen was a big hit in their golden era, getting platinum records on
most of their singles but then music changed and punk rock started
to be in fashion, so Queen tried to do that and still they were still
extremely popular, had amazing talent and worked hard. They even
got roles at music festivals, performing for royals and playing with
other famous rockers and huge music stars like The Eagles or Elton
John.
They had 15 studio albums until Freddie Mercurys death. They still
tour but with other stars doing the vocals. Queen are one of the
best British bands of the past century and have made some classic
hits that people still listen to today.
Popular Members: Brian May is the lead guitarist for Queen. May
and Mercury were the people who wrote the majority of songs on
the albums produced by Queen.
May was given Freddie Mercurys piano as a part of his will.
May and Roger are the only members to still be playing for Queen.
May has three children; Jimmy, Emily Ruth and Louisa. Brian is
currently 65.

Roger: Before Queen, Roger and Brian were part of a band called
Smile. they only lasted two years (1968-1970/when Queen started).
even though they only had nine songs after the death of Mercury,
they reunited with Tim Staffel returning as his former roll as Smiles
lead vocals.
while still in Queen, Taylor created his own solo career. he has had
five solo albums (and two live tours), which one of those will be
coming out this year.
Taylor has five children; Tiger Lilly, Rory Eleanor, Rufus Tiger, Felix
Luther and Lola Daisy May.

Solo Career: Freddie released two off queen albums and some extra
singles, both with not as much success as his Queen albums.
His first album debuted in the top UK album charts. The two albums
he made were Mr Bad Guy (1985) and Barcelona (1988). Mr Bad
Guy reached the top ten UK album charts and a remix of Living On
My Own reached number one in the top single charts.
His second album, Barcelona, was a mix of pop and opera but the
critics didnt know what to make of the album. They said it was
the most bizarre CD of the year.
In 1981-1983, Mercury recorded a few tracks with Michael Jackson
including a demo of "State of Shock", "Victory" and "There Must Be
More to Life Than This. None of these demos were ever released.
Jackson then recorded State of Shock with Mick Jagger on
Jacksons album Victory. In response, Freddie then recorded
There Must Be More To Life Than This solo.

Death: Freddie died on November 24 1991 because of AIDS. He was
only 45.
He really went out in style because of his last live performance,
over 300,000 people attended. He played over 700 live
performances with Queen.
Mercury wrote 10 of the 17 songs on their Greatest Hits album,
such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Killer Queen and Somebody to
love. Queen were the first to start call and response at live
performances.
Queens Greatest Hits album was the best selling album of all time
in the UK.

Tribute: The tribute concert was on Easter Monday, 20
th
April 1992
at Wembley Stadium, London. This concert had an international
audience of up to 1 billion viewers. Famous singers of the time sung
great hits by Queen, backed by Brian May, John Deacon and Roger
Taylor .
After watching most of the music sung by famous artists like David
Bowie and George Michael, I thought George Michaels version of
Somebody To Love was the best sung hit out of all the others.
He was also given a tribute statue (the one in the picture) of the
famous fist pump he did while in concert.

Queen Influence: Queen have influenced many popular bands and
singers such as:
Anthrax
Nirvana
Def Leppard
Dream Theatre
Extreme
Trivium
Foo Fighters
Franz Ferdinand
George Michael
Green Day
Guns N' Roses
Iron Maiden
Journey
Kansas
Katy Perry
Keane
Lady Gaga
Manic Street Preachers
Meat Loaf
Metallica
Mika
Muse
Mtley Cre
My Chemical Romance
Panic! at the Disco
Queensrche
Van Halen
Radiohead
Robbie Williams
Trent Reznor
Steve Vai
Sum 41
Styx
Midge Ure
The Flaming Lips
The Killers
The Smashing Pumpkins

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Early Life: Farrokh (Freddie) Bulsara, grew up in Stone Town,

Zanzibar, East Africa. He later moved to the Bombay Presidency in

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