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Freddy mercury!

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Freddy mercury was a British musician, best known as the lead vocalist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen.

His real name was Farrokh Bulsara, and was born in Gujarati, 5 September in 1946 and died 24 November in 1991.

Music career:

After his graduation, Mercury joined a series of bands. Friends from the time remember him as a quiet and shy young man who showed a great deal of interest in music

In April 1970, Mercury joined guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor who had previously been in a band called Smile. Despite reservations from the other members, Mercury chose the name "Queen" for the new band. He later said about the band's name, "I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it". At about the same time, he changed his surname, Bulsara, to Mercury.

Mercury wrote 10 of the 17 songs on Queen's Greatest Hits album: "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Seven Seas of Rhye", "Killer Queen", "Somebody to Love", "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy", "We Are the Champions", "Bicycle Race", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Play the Game".

One of Mercury's most notable performances with Queen took place at Live Aid in 1985, during which the entire stadium audience of 72,000 people clapped, sang and swayed in unison. Queen's performance at the event has since been voted by a group of music executives as the greatest live performance in the history of rock music!

Illness and disease:

According to his partner Jim Hutton, Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS shortly after Easter of 1987.

Mercury died on the evening of 24 November 1991 at the age of 45. The official cause of death was bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.

Legacy:

Is clearly that Mercury’s death may have enhanced Queen's popularity. In the United States, where Queen's popularity had lagged in the 1980s, sales of Queen Albums went up dramatically in 1992, the year following his death.

He was also the first major rock star to die from AIDS, so Mercury's death represented a very important event in the disease's history. In April 1992, the remaining members of Queen founded The Mercury Phoenix Trust and organized The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness to celebrate the life and legacy of Mercury and raise money for AIDS research, which took place on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992.

Curios note:

Brian May the former guitarist from queen announced in a BBC interview that Sacha Baron Cohen, previously best known for his comedic characters Borat, Ali G and Brüno, had been chosen to play Mercury in a film about his life. The motion picture is being written by Peter Morgan, who had been nominated for Oscars for his screenplays The Queen and Frost/Nixon. The film, which is being co-produced by Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Productions, will focus on Queen's formative years and the period leading up to the celebrated performance at the 1985 Live Aid concert. Filming is due to begin sometime in 2011.

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