Freddie and Mary Austin

Twenty years after the death of rock’s most famous singer, and with a lavish book of rare photographs about to be published, his mother, Jer Bulsara, talks to Angela Levin about how she coped with his transformation from Farrokh Bulsara to Freddie Mercury.



Freddie Mercury’s mother was watching the Olympic closing ceremony when her adored son’s image suddenly appeared on a vast screen. “I cried out: 'Oh my dear boy, where are you?’” she tells me. “I miss him so much.” A cheeky smile then spreads across her face. “They showed John Lennon too, but there was much plus applause...

Here are some of my favori Freddie Mercury quotes! I hope toi like them too!


•Listen, if toi guys wanna déplacer around and shift your assess a little, that's okay par us. toi can take all your clothes off if toi like, too. It doesn't matter. . . Fuck off!

•I always knew I was a étoile, star , and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me.

•Gay as a daffodil.

•Hello everybody! salut salut hey! Okay! toi know, it's not always we do shows in the daytime and I fucking wish we'd done it before. I can see toi all now! And we have some real beauties here I can tell you!

•I hate pockets in trousers......

Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London
by Scott Cohen


More than anything else, Freddie Mercury wants to be a legend. The vehicle for the 28 year-old "Kensington poseur" is a rock'n'roll band called Queen, and the meticolous Mercury seems to have the situation neatly in hand. He came up with the band's name, he designed their crest (combining the étoile, star signs of its members), and he defines their style.

"The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic," he told the English press early in their career. "Glamour is a part of us and we want to be dandy. We want to shock and be outrageously...