Freddie Mercury
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Freddie Mercury (1846–1991) was a musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Queen.
Freddie Mercury was a Parsi, born in Zanzibar as Farrokh Bulsara and brought up in Zanzibar and India. In 1964 he settled with his family in Feltham. In 1970 he joined the band which he renamed "Queen".
He had relationships with both men and women, and lived for the last six years of his life with hairdresser Jim Hutton.
According Jim Hutton, Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS shortly after Easter of 1987.[1]
References
- ↑ Tim Teeman "I Couldn't Bear to See Freddie Wasting Away", The Times 7 September 2006.
