Freddie Mercury was born in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania, September 5, 1946, aka Farrokh Bulsara, and was the greatest rock singer of all time. A British light of Indian origin. The son of Bomi and Jer Bulsara. His father was a British official. Freddie found himself carrying out studies to Panchagani (Bombay) at Saint Peter's Boarding School. Excellent student with great artistic talent (he drew very well) Freddie also distinguished himself in sports: he was an accomplished sprinter and a decent boxer, achieving good results even with ice hockey, cricket and table tennis. But the mood music was already present early in life because Freddie joined the school choir and learned to play the piano. In school he attended in 1958 were born Hectics, which Freddie was the pianist. In 1962 he finished his studies and reunited with family in Zanzibar. Two years later the family had to move to England because of political instability. England was the country suitable to satisfy the passion for art, so while rental occupied with odd jobs at London (Heathrow), he devoted himself to painting and design. In 1966 he enrolled in art school Ealing and his studies in illustration, graphic design and is accompanied with a passion for Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon (who would take a song, Life Is Real). His favorite band was "The Jacksons". His classmate at that time was Staffell, bass player and singer of Smile, supplemented by Roger Taylor on drums and Brian May on guitar. Cris Smith also met with which he began writing songs. He finished his academic studies in the spring of 1969. In the same year he joined the Ibex of Liverpool, while working in some journals of Kensington, the Ibex changed their name to Wreckage, but disbanded in the early seventies. Freddie picked up a listing of Sour Milk Sea seeking a singer. Having heard evidence remained impressed by the voice of Freddie. They left for Oxford, where there were waiting for some concerts. After this experience, Freddie decided to follow the band of his Staffell giving you some tips on how to do the concerts, and after a short time Staffell accepted a proposal from another group leaving the Smile. This incident proved decisive. Freddie shared a stand of old clothes with Roger Taylor (the drummer for Queen) and he accepted the invitation of his friend and replaced Staffell in Smile. The Smile changed their name to Queen and Freddie Mercury Freddie became , in honor of Mercury, the messenger of the gods. During this period he met and fell in love with Mary Austin, which coexisted with six years). In 1971, after discarding 6 candidates bass players in quick succession, the Queen found the lucky seventh in John Deacon, a choice that proved important to the success of the group. Onstage Mercury charmed the audience with her compelling charisma. His musical career saw him at the center of everything and everyone, including media. Although Freddie on stage always show itself as an unbiased person, outrageous and energetic, far from the spotlight was a shy and reserved. In 1980 a turning point in his personal life. Freddie, conscious of not being heterosexual, transformed his love relationship with Mary Austin and passion in a relationship of brotherly love. He showed the audience with a look noticeably changed, short hair and a mustache as a mark a break with the past. 1981 was a transition year, the crazy life of Monaco and disorderly put a strain on his person, as well as some of his friends. For April 1985 the first solo album came out Freddie, Mr. Bad Guy (Mr. bad guy, in the title refers to himself). The work left doubting the press, including the fact that it was a mix of disparate musical elements. The album is remembered for his songs, however, very important and beautiful one of all Made in Heaven, rebuilt in 1995 with the Queen in different version, but also others such as There Must Be More To Life Than This and Mr. Bad Guy who gives name to 'album. After this interlude solo Freddie went back to work on the draft Queen, living freely their homosexuality, often mocking the interviewer who asked him if he was gay, sometimes denied and sometimes winking and saying things like "I'm gay as a daffodil "They're not ever openly admitted to being gay, but did nothing to contradict it. Went so far as to shoot a video in which he and all members of the Queen seemed provocatively dressed women (although the original proposal was to Roger Taylor, drummer, from an idea of \u200b\u200bhis girlfriend) but denying the homosexual connotation of the video with this sentence: "The travesty of video" I Want to Break Free " is not a declaration of membership gay. If I had done such a thing, people would be put to yawn. My God, look at Freddie who says he is gay because it's fashionable. " But the real Freddie Mercury was one of the stage, the author of musical hits that exceed time and cultures, the one who welcomed the challenge of producing column Highlander soundtrack, the last immortal (as well as Flash Gordon by Dino De Laurentiis), and sang with the English soprano Montserrat Caballé (Maria de Montserrat Viviana Concepción Caballé) . In 1987 came his Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe famous soprano duet with English, a record in many ways innovative for the first time joined the rock opera (this road will be undertaken also by the tenor Luciano Pavarotti and other artists, following ). Barcelona became the official anthem of the Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992. In 1986 the group returned to bullying in the spotlight. In summer, in fact, the Queen held various concerts from June to August of which two are mentioned at all at Wembley Stadium in London on July 12 and 11 now entered into legend, as well as that of August 9 at Knebworth Park, which saw the British band to make use of technological un'impianto amazing. After 86, however, things began, little by little, a different trend. Freddie at some point he left his life full of excesses. Did not attend more live concerts, saying that a man of 40 years could not jump with wearing tights, not wanting to publicly declare that you have AIDS, the media began to suspect that something was wrong. The public appearances became increasingly rare, almost nothing, and he lived increasingly villa in Kensington (London). Freddie hid the terrible secret of his illness to other members of Queen, so that they could worry about, thereby preventing him from singing. The song, in fact, was the thing that gave him relief, and so he moved from England to Switzerland to Montreux, where he bought an apartment, and where recorded some of the most intense songs of Queen. He sang almost to the end, did the impossible for her fans, please stop by often making others in the group, but the music and love of the people were the most important things for him. Memorable his last public appearance in the video for the song "These Are The Days of Our Lives" last album, Innuendo: Freddie has been nothing short of a pitiful is very thin, has dark circles, elegant dresses and no longer wears his famous mustache. He returned to England two months before the end, to be near his loved ones. 24 hours before the announcement of his death was a press release with the admission of having AIDS. The curtain came down at around 19 to Sunday, November 24, 1991. He died at his home and his body cremated, to be kept by the family (another thesis considers the ashes scattered in the lake of Geneva, in front of "his" Montreux). His funeral took place in private in accordance with the Zoroastrian customs. On April 20, 1992 in London was held on Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert . Freddie Mercury in Montreux is remembered with a bronze statue that overlooks the lake. Every year since 2003 in September, takes place in the Swiss town Freddie Mercury Memorial Day : hundreds of fans can make direct contact with environments that were Mercury and friends during his long stay in Switzerland, the famous "Duckhouse "(The lake house on the cover of Made In Heaven), at Mountain Studios, where the Queen gave birth to various projects. On 16 November 1992 was released, almost a year after his death "The Freddie Mercury Album", a collection of his most famous songs from the individual, as Living On My Own , Barcelona with Montserrat Caballé and The Great Pretender . In 2000 came Freddie Mercury Solo Collection , a box set containing 10 CD (Mr. Bad Guy, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bThe Great Pretender CD with several other sessions of songs never officially released) and 2 DVD: The Untold Story and The Video Collection, the first is a documentary on the life of Freddie, the second is a collection of his videos. On September 4, 2006 was released the largest collection ever made in his memory: Lover of Life, Singer of Songs - The Very Best of Freddie Mercury Solo , 2 CD and 2 DVD honor what would have been the 60th birthday of the unforgettable King of Queen. 
