Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Freddie Mercury the only Music Legend

By James Albert


Freddie Mercury is one of the most successful individuals in the music industry. He captured the love of the people around the globe with his songs and compositions. His legitimate name is "Farrokh Bulsara" and he was born on September 5, 1946 in the tiny spice island of Zanzibar. His parents were Persian, Bomi and Jer Bulsara. He was raised in an typical household and at the age of eight, Freddie was send to St. Peter's English boarding school 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 unveiled in the music group referred to as Ibex and given the opportunity to become among its members but eventually the music group was broken so Freddie searched for another rock band. He found Sour Milk Sea and grew to become its lead singer but just soon after few months the band had exactly the same fate. Freddie had the chance to become a member of the band of Smile as a lead singer and change the name of the band to 'Queen'.

Freddie created Bohemian Rhapsody, a very popular track 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 distinctive, having no chorus although with three main parts; the ballad, the guitar solo, and the hard rock. Bohemian Rhapsody became the most expensive single ever made and one of the most popular in the music history. It's probably the most successful songs of Queen. He also wrote several songs entitled 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 changed his image by trimming 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 loved for seven years but separated and remained as friends. He left most of his prosperity to Mary Austin soon after he died because he considered her as his only genuine friend. He even made numerous songs devoted to her and one of this is "Love of My life"

During their July 13, 1985 performance at Live Aid in Wembley Stadium with about 72,000 people, Queen secured their place in the music history. In spite of all the results, Freddie Mercury confronted several issues especially in sex-related orientation as a bisexual. He previously had also numerous relationships with guys and bisexual and one of them is Jim Hutton. He spent the final six years of his life with this man.
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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