Freddie Mercury, famous singer and songwriter, leader of the Queen group, even 25 years after his death, is the most popular performer in the world. He was an idol for millions of people, but the media talked not so much about his career as about his "tarnished reputation." But was this information true?
For fans of Freddie Mercury, he is a sinful idol, a talented person who led a “wrong” lifestyle outside the stage, which led to his untimely death. It was this image that was created for us by numerous "scribblers" who, both during his life and after his death, "dug in dirty linen", doing everything to expose Freddie as a vicious genius.
IN last trip world legend, the genius who created the magic of the stage, was accompanied by a procession of blooming seas. The world knew that it would never be the same as before. This is a biography of the life of Freddie Mercury, award-winning rock journalist Leslie Ann Jones, and the queen traveling the concert tours and closely associated with the group. Lilly-Ana, personally intimately acquainted with the rest of the group and the immediate people of Freddie's environment - from birth to the last days, has written a masterpiece of deep understanding of one of the most beloved and most complex personalities in the world.
He really died of AIDS - this is an indisputable fact, but recently there is more and more evidence that suggests that Mercury was slandered. Someone will say that this cannot be, because everyone cannot lie! People who personally knew Freddie were interviewed more than once about Freddie's life. Why should they lie? Let's say one person "exaggerated", but for everyone to do it?
Seeking to understand and understand legendary man as much as possible, Less-Anne Jones has traveled the world extensively - from London to Zanzibar and India. Mercura, this book is last portrait legendary person. In Munich, the queen was amazed by the talents of Reinhart Max to begin a long-term collaboration with him.
At one of the shows on that tour, tour leader Jerry Stilles collapsed backstage. During recording David Bowie, who ended up in Switzerland, left the studio to greet his compatriots. "Hot Space" was a big surprise to everyone as it had funky disco rhythms in its music. The guitars were barely audible, and logically the reactions were somewhat intense. Brian May himself admitted that Hot Space was not his favorite album. The result was, of course, the result of the Queen's constant tendency to sense new elements in their sound.
And yet there is an assumption that all the stories about Mercury's indecent behavior are lies from beginning to end. I am based on the facts stated in the book by journalist M. Akhundova “Freddie Mercury. A Stolen Life”, as well as based on the words of his biographers, bit by bit collecting all the facts about Freddie’s life. In the end, everything came together in a puzzle that does not coincide with the well-known story of the life and death of Freddie Mercury.
Michael Jackson! Unfortunately, none of them were released. In December 82, the queen entered the Guinness record as the most expensive Briton. At the same time, they decided that the group would enter the ice. This decision was made, on the one hand, because since the early 1970s they have been constantly working, and on the other, because they often began to tensely tense relations between members, so the queen announced that 83 would not travel at all.
Brian also recorded two tracks during his time in the US "Stay with Me Today" by Jeffrey Osbourne. In August of that year, the queen gathered after a long time to return to work. They decided that the record they were preparing would be good for recording in America. At first the queen agreed, but after a while they came to the conclusion that they did not claim to use two discs at the same time. Subsequently, Mercury continued to work on his own solo album at regular intervals.
Freddie's real name is Farrukh Bulsara. He was born on September 5, 1946 in Zanzibar, into a wealthy Parsi family (a people of Iranian origin). When the boy was five years old, the family moved to Bombay. There he was sent to school, where the children began to call him Freddie.
In April they go to New Zealand, and on April 13, they make their first career appearance in front of an Auckland audience. Once again, there were many protests and rallies of protesters outside the group's hotel, accusing the Queen of supporting apartheid. The surprise of the evening was the appearance on stage of Tony Hadley, the Spandau ballet singer, who had flown from Australia to see the Queen. His "compensation" was also asked to take part in the encore. They then went on to give eight more sold-out performances to Australia, where all the bums that were presented to them were crowned with success.
Freddie was easy to study, in addition, he was interested in sports, literature, drawing and music. After graduating from school, Freddie returned to Zanzibar, but the current political situation forced the Bulsara family to emigrate to the UK in 1964. There, Freddie graduated from art college, received a diploma in design and continued to make music, participating in various groups. In 1970, he became the lead singer of a youth group, which, at his request, became known as Queen. The emblem of the group - the signs of the zodiac - was also invented and drawn by Freddie.
In March, John Deacon, along with Robert Avhay and Lenny Zakatek, got the Immortals to record music for the movie Biggles. Another tour of a group that will write history. First western group gave a concert at the Nepstadion in Budapest. Over a million viewers watched it, and broke the record for the highest attendance in the world on a UK tour, with over a thousand Brits watching.
And if the number 000 looks like a lot, consider that tickets in the United Kingdom are mailed and asking for over $000! Other special moments of this tour were the opening concert in St. Petersburg. The video that accompanied the album featured scenes from old videos, his own or the band's, culminating in a hidden singer!
At the same time, he met Mary Austin, and lived with her for more than seven years.
The group "Queen" quickly gained wild popularity. In 1971, Freddie took the pseudonym "Mercury", which means "Mercury" or "mercury" in English.
The record confirmed its commercial success, climbing to number four in the UK charts. In March of the same year, Freddie makes an effort to combine two of his favorite musical genres, rock and opera. She travels to Barcelona to meet the great opera diva Montserrat Caballe and proposes to her a joint proposal giving her some songs she has written for her. Montserrat accepts and soon begins to record their recordings, a rather laborious work that took over nine months, due to the various hearings they had.
This pseudonym is very suitable for the singer. In fact, he was like mercury on stage, in constant dynamic movement. All Freddie's performances were distinguished by plasticity and emotionality, and if we add original costumes and a magnificent voice (range - 4 octaves) to this, it becomes clear to whom the group owed such a quick take-off.
Their appearance took place on October 8, and the last time Freddie sang in public. Two days later, their album was released with genuine original name"Barcelona". Taylor, having shown his support for the sacred marriage institution by marrying Dominic's mother, at the same time maintained in himself the inherent polygamy of human tendencies, a few days after the discussion with Debbie. However, the stars were not favorable to him only emotionally, but also professionally.
Brian May, on the other hand, has participated in various musical events, most notably the June 6 hosted by the Prince of Great Britain at the Royal Albert Hall, where John Deacon assisted artists such as Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler and Elton John.
Freddie reveled in his work, he experienced undisguised pleasure from what he was doing on stage, and this, of course, was transmitted to the audience.
Freddie Mercury was not only a performer, but also the author of many works and clips performed by the group.
In subsequent years, Mercury, in addition to working with Queen, also pursued his solo career. He recorded CDs and even performed a duet with Montserrat Caballe (1988). Their joint song "Barcelona" in 1992 - after the death of the singer - became the anthem of the Olympics.
From the live there were performances of the songs "Killer", "Dad was rollin" and "Called you". The song was included on the album Old, which was released. Listen without prejudice. 1. Songs from the last century. Editing - Adaptation: Cristina Kostavara. Lara Fabian is considered one of the most famous performers internationally.
With a 30 year career, 12 albums of her own and over 32 million CD sales worldwide, she is one of the most commercial artists of her generation. Born in Belgium to a Flemish father and a Sicilian mother, she was named after the central character in Doctor Zhivago.
Along with stage fame, Mercury came to fame of a different kind. The media began to accuse him of addiction to a noisy feast, alcohol and drugs, as well as his love for men ...
The more popular the Queen group gained, the more the yellow press published articles about its soloist, and not always truthful ones.
At first, the press savored with pleasure a certain defect in the singer's appearance, namely, his upper teeth protruding forward.
Guitarist father in the band Petula Clark - and her mother encouraged Lara to start singing lessons at a very young age, and at her eight years old on St. Nicholas Day she gave her her first piano - a wonderful gift for her girl who dreamed of becoming a singer, a gift. which played a decisive role and sealed his future course. Lara started along with songs, music and dance, began to write and interpret her own songs, but also to play on her piano, all the songs of that time, a time of especially intense music.
In her compositions, Fabian was influenced by her classical musical training and contemporary artists such as Barbra Streisand and Freddie Mercury. The single became a big success in Europe, selling over 000 copies. The album also included "Adagio", which became one of Lara's greatest successes in several countries.
Then periodically began to appear articles about the adventures of Freddie - gay. And this despite the fact that Mercury really wanted a family and was acutely worried about the absence of children. He was raised in a religion where celibacy is a vice. Freddie knew that his family was waiting for his marriage and children, but his relationship with Austin was coming to an end, and there was no replacement.
Someone might say that Mary was a kind of cover for him. But, according to many of Freddie's acquaintances, he was not a homosexual and was very worried about the fact that he did not have a family.
In 1986, there were rumors that Mercury had contracted AIDS. This is true information, but where did he pick up the infection? The journalists, of course, decided that the infection occurred either through sexual contact or through a syringe when Freddie injected himself with drugs. However, the aforementioned researchers of Freddie's biography claim that he was infected in the clinic, and deliberately - in September 1986, he was allegedly injected with a hepatitis vaccine that causes immunodeficiency.
Why deliberately? If the infection was someone's negligence, there would be more infected, but only Mercury suffered.
Another interesting fact. Almost immediately, when Freddie himself did not yet know about his illness and went on vacation to Japan (it was his favorite country), a yellow London newspaper published an interview with Freddie, which he allegedly gave her. In it, Mercury says that I supposedly contracted AIDS because I took drugs and had promiscuity. And in the end I urged people not to do that. When the newspaper came out, an angry Mercury called its editor-in-chief and ordered him to give a retraction. The editor promised, but did nothing. The article sold like hot cakes on a market day, and information about the "bad" Freddie, who contracted AIDS, settled in the minds of readers. The question arises - how did this newspaper find out about the infection before Mercury himself?
Upon learning of his illness, Freddie Mercury took it calmly. But when two of his friends died of AIDS, Freddie realized that the situation was very serious. Yes, and the disease made itself felt more and more. Mary Austin in her interview said that only work helped him to hold on.
AIDS is the disease that, having developed, is “written on the face” of the patient. This is what happened with Mercury. By the end of 1988, he had lost a lot of weight - he became almost unrecognizable in appearance. But AIDS has a long incubation period (more than a year) when external signs diseases are not yet visible. So Freddie was infected in 1986.
The disease progressed rapidly, but Freddie Mercury continued to work. His driver then said that Freddie suffered greatly from severe pain, and he also often felt sick. Often the singer asked to stop the car to vomit. Both pain and nausea are symptoms of AIDS, and the fact that Mercury had them very strong speaks only of the rapid course of the disease. It turns out that AIDS in a couple of years was able to "eat" an athletic, physically developed young man. And this despite the fact that with proper medical care, such patients live for years.
AIDS patients receive the necessary treatment, which improves and prolongs their lives, and Mercury, with his fame and money, for some reason quickly faded away and constantly suffered from severe pain, as if painkillers had not yet been invented!
In my opinion, the truth, of course, needs to be known. If Freddie was neither a drug addict nor a homosexual, then his reputation should be saved at least posthumously. Stop throwing mud at him! Let those who write about Mercury better investigate the mystery of his illness and death.
With the current level of development of medicine, it is not difficult to find out everything, in my opinion. Where he was infected, when it happened, where and how he was treated later - all this information must be found. After all, when Mercury fell ill, a disease card was entered and all the data of interest could be found out from it. But the card is gone.
Freddie had an attending physician (Gordon Atkinson) who could shed some light on the situation. Atkinson once said that in recent months Before Mercury's death, doctors were constantly on duty in his house, and Freddie himself could only breathe with the help of an artificial respiration apparatus. But this is a lie. According to Mary Austin and other close people, in the last months of his life, Freddie refused medical services, saying that he was tired of enduring pain and fighting. And no one except Atkinson came to his house and there were no doctors and nurses there.
Moreover, on the last day of Freddie's life, he became very ill. Those present called Atkinson, who, by the way, was not in the house at that moment. The doctor arrived, looked at Freddie, who was writhing in agony, and did nothing. And this is how one of the best London doctors behaved, whom Mercury paid big money for his treatment!? The next day, Mercury died of pneumonia caused by AIDS. It happened on November 24, 1991. He was 45 years old.
Again, according to established practice, when a famous person dies, his doctor and witnesses of the incident must give public testimony (for example, at a meeting with the media), where they talk about everything in detail. But, although Mercury was a super-famous person, this was not done.
Another inconsistency. When a person dies from an infectious disease at home, an autopsy must be performed, on the basis of which the cause of death is established. But this was not done. According to the parents, the death certificate was issued according to the attending physician, Atkinson.
Usually journalists try to unearth any sensational trifle from the biography of a celebrity. In the case of Mercury, on the surface lies his mysterious death, but the media wrote and write about anything, but not about her. Tact? Not at all. After all, they do not hesitate to describe in detail Freddie's connections with men, the existence of which there is no evidence.
Moreover, since 1985, Mercury has not been seen in any vicious relationships, he gave all his strength to performing and organizing world tours, and spent his free minutes at home, alone. He was always in sight, and this way of life of that time is confirmed even by those who always defamed him. This means that Freddie Mercury could not become infected sexually.
Now about Queen. Of course, the bandmates knew about everything. Freddie was a very decent person, and he could not help telling about his illness, if only so that the guys could think in advance how the group could exist without him. Moreover, in 1987 they gave an interview in which they said that the group would soon stop their tours, but they did not explain the reason. And many noticed their very sad eyes. It turns out that even then they knew about Freddie's illness.
In 1989, Queen released a video for the song "Scandal", in which Freddie stands in front of the newspaper headline "National Scandal". And his words sound: “Scandal. Newspaper headlines today - tomorrow Hard times. And no one can really tell the truth from the lies. Scandal". Of course, the group sings about the public scandal that the media dooms Mercury, trumpeting on every corner about his illness.
In 1991, "Queen" released a truly terrible video, the viewing of which could not leave anyone indifferent. It's about about the song "I'm Going Slightly Mad" ("I'm Going Slightly Mad"). wheelchair, and for some time becomes a target for a rifle. The meaning is clear. At the same time, the words sound: “When the temperature rises and the meaning of it is seen more clearly, one and a thousand daffodils dance faster and faster. What do they want to say? My friend, you are not healthy. What is in store for you?” yellow daffodil- a symbol of an early death. It is clear that Freddie sings about his imminent death.
But even more powerful in terms of its impact on the listener was the soon-to-be-released video for the song “The Show Must Go On”. In it, Freddie Mercury seems to confess to the viewer and confesses his eternal love to him. "Let the show go on and let my heart break, but the smile is still on my lips ... I will meet him smiling and never give up ... I need to find the strength to continue the show." At the end, Mercury looks to the sky, then to the camera, says with a smile: “I still love you”, waves his hand and leaves.
To this day, this song is played at many funerals. creative people as a hymn to the love of art and life.
One more thing. Allegedly, Mercury's acquaintances said after his death that his relatives did not know anything about his illness. Another lie. Freddie's sister said that as soon as he found out, he informed his parents and her about his illness. Moreover, the body of the deceased singer was taken from his house by his father, although Atkinson told everyone that his parents were not even allowed into the house.
Freddie Mercury was buried by his parents and Mary Austin - such was the desire of the singer. It was to them that he bequeathed his vast fortune.
For many years no one knew where his grave was. Only in 2013, his modest burial was found in one London cemetery.
It turns out that it was beneficial for someone to hide information about the illness and death of Freddie Mercury? But who needed it and why? If only someone really wanted to make him a bright and world famous example of how bad habits can play a bad joke on a person.
Whoever it was, the fact remains - many of Freddie's entourage betrayed him. In my opinion, hiding the truth, announcing which you can save the reputation of a person close to you, is a betrayal.
It is terrible to imagine what Freddie Mercury's relatives have endured over the years, who, of course, were insanely painful to hear lies, knowing that he was a completely different person, and not being able to tell the truth. And who will believe them?
Some biographers of Mercury were able to "talk" to the witnesses of those events, who admitted that both during his lifetime and after the death of Freddie McCurry was repeatedly slandered. But they refused to say it publicly. So fear again?
If the name of Freddie Mercury still manages to be “whitewashed”, then, it seems to me, he will have even more fans. If this is possible, because he is already loved by people from all over the world, and of all ages.
And if nevertheless it turns out that Freddie Mercury was not an angel - this must be forgotten. As they say, the dead are either good or nothing. Moreover, there is a topic that you can talk about endlessly - the work of Freddie Mercury.
Mercury was a fan of the work of Liza Minnelli, Jimm Hendrix and Rudolf Nureyev.
He loved cats all his life. When Freddie was on tour, he periodically talked to his pets on the phone, and their portraits are embroidered on one of his costumes. Moreover, he dedicated one of his albums to his cats.
Freddie Mercury did not like to give interviews because he was shy.
He loved very much yellow, so his name was given to a new variety of yellow roses.
In 1996, in the town of Montreux, in Switzerland, a monument was unveiled to Freddie Mercury, who was very fond of these places.
Soloist legendary band"Queen", the author of many songs by Freddie Mercury, whose biography we will consider today, was a very unusual person. He is still among the most popular artists world stage. The eccentricity that he showed on stage, and his amazing stage images were remembered for a long time not only by his fans, but also by people far from the world of music.
Freddie Mercury: biography. Childhood
Farrukha Bulsary (this is the real name of the artist) was born in 1946 in the city of Zanzibar, the capital of the island of Unguja. The parents gave the boy a name that meant "happy", "beautiful". In 1954, Farrukh moved to live with his grandfather in Panchgani and went to school. He was always a diligent student, went in for sports, but most of all he liked painting and music. He devoted all his free time to singing, sometimes even what was intended for study. The director of the school where the boy studied drew attention to his vocal abilities and wrote a letter to his parents with a proposal to organize piano lessons for Farrukh. His name seemed too complicated to his classmates and they simply called him Freddie. This is how Freddie Mercury began his journey to fame.
Artist biography: first successes
As a twelve-year-old teenager, the future star, along with four of his friends, organized a group and began to perform at all school parties. After leaving school, Freddie decided to continue his studies at an art college in London (he and his entire family moved to England in 1964). During the holidays, he tried to earn extra money, since the family was not rich, he painted a lot and forgot more and more about music. In college, the guy met the vocalist of the group "Smile", began to attend their rehearsals. In 1969, Freddie and his friend Roger Taylor opened a small shop selling Freddie's paintings and other interesting things. In the same year, Freddie began to perform in the group "Ibex", and in 1970 he took the place of the vocalist of "Smile". On his initiative, the team was renamed "Queen". He changed his surname and Freddie, becoming Mercury (from the English "mercury", "mercury"). Many of the songs for the band's first album, released in 1972, and for subsequent ones, were written by Freddie Mercury. 
Artist biography: Solo career
The team thundered all over the world with performances, gained millions of fans, the participants began to feel like real stars. Freddie changed his image: he cut his hair short and grew a mustache. In 1984, he took advantage of a short break in tour schedule and vacation, recorded the first solo compositions, and in 1985 released an album. Soon, information appeared in the press about the singer's serious illness, but he completely denied it. In 1989, the musician, instead of going on the next tour with his bandmates, devoted time to recording new songs. But in fact, the reason for this was not at all a creative impulse, but Freddie's inability to perform due to deteriorating health.
Freddie Mercury: biography. Personal life
In 1969, the artist met Mary Austin, with whom he lived together for seven years. Despite the fact that they broke up, Freddie called her the only one of his life. The musician is also credited with an affair with actress Barbara Valentine. The singer's personal life has always been a mystery, since he never gave unequivocal answers to journalists' questions, it was impossible to understand what was true in his words, what was fiction, and what was just a joke.
Freddie Mercury: Death
In 1991, on November 23, the artist announced to everyone that he had AIDS, and the next day he was gone. Freddie has become a real legend, and even now, more than 20 years after his creative work, he remains an inspiration and example for many young musicians.
The legendary singer died in 1991 at the age of 45. For two decades, his death has given rise to a mass of rumors and gossip, hardly less than his life itself. The artist did not want to advertise his illness. But after his death, both his life and his death became the subject of the most insane speculation.
Speculation "helped" and the disease itself. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is currently the world's No. 1 cause of death from infectious diseases. According to the World Health Organization, in 2008 the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS was diagnosed in 33 million people, mostly in Africa, where the disease began to spread.
There have been many rumors around AIDS from the very beginning. Apparently, it could not be otherwise: the disease appeared unexpectedly, its carrier - HIV - was not isolated immediately, and initially - mainly among homosexuals. In addition, there was not (and still is not) an effective cure for it. It is not surprising that even the first publications about AIDS in the Soviet press transparently hinted at the connection of the epidemic "with experiments with biological weapons of the US military-industrial complex." The conspiracy theories around AIDS, however, soon abandoned the military version, but took up the version "AIDS is an invention of pharmaceutical companies." Medicine, unfortunately, could not dispel the myths around AIDS - the treatment mitigating the consequences of AIDS is really expensive, and the myth-makers simply do not have enough education to understand the details of the studies of virologists and pharmacists.
Conspiracy theory has the logic of myth. The myth does not need proof, it rejects evidence, science for it is only the opinion of scientists who are nothing more than private individuals with their own interests and sins. But myth always needs a hero. What is the myth without Hercules or Jason? Modern myths choose characters from among celebrities who are written about in newspapers, whose names are on everyone's lips. One of the main characters in the myth of the AIDS conspiracy was Freddie Mercury - a character that fits perfectly from all sides: a celebrity, a talent, a homosexual.
You should not turn a blind eye to the existence of conspiracy theories: they are the same organic part of the modern mass culture like the paparazzi reports. "Private Correspondent" decided to acquaint readers with one of its striking examples - the myth of Freddie and AIDS.
The Queen created music that embodied the best tendencies of the 70s - their sensuality and hedonism, their self-intoxication and enjoyment of the relative prosperity and freedom of that time, their cheerful euphoria. In the person of Freddie Mercury, pop music found its first Asian rock star. This star brought something to the world of Western pop that he had never dreamed of before. Inspired, triumphant color vision of the world, the god Krishna, carried away by his love adventures - and all at once. His very singing comes from reckless love, and it catches the listener.
He once said that he was married to love. Married to all the people with whom he had sexual intercourse. The massive campaign to turn Freddie into a gay icon, unleashed by the worldwide pro speed movement, has taken note and spins the disgusting gay porn myth with Freddie Mercury in leading role. But after reading the book by Mariam Akhundova, dedicated to Freddie, I am proud that it was in Russia that there were girls who stood up for a man and his good name, trying to figure out the garbage that is happening in our kingdom of crooked mirrors. The book by Mariam Akhundova, by the way, will soon be published in the second edition.
The mystery of Freddie Mercury's death will probably never be revealed in its entirety, because it involves the global medical-industrial complex entering into corporate copulation with show business, as well as the British tabloid press, EMI and Queen Productions, many his friends and, of course, Freddie's personal physician, Mr. Gordon Atkins, and his assistants.
The armor of the official version of Freddie's illness and death breaks through easily, although in the minds of the bydlomas the spell is fixed with the strongest impenetrable rivets: "Freddie Mercury died of AIDS." This is wrong. And I hope I can tell you as simply as possible what really happened.
The thread of contract killing of Freddie Mercury stretches to the very top, to where the heads of pharmaceutical corporations, representatives of militarism and neo-colonialism, the largest financial magnates, in short, all the rulers of this world, about whom we know ridiculously little, sit. Who exactly is responsible for this decision, who carried it out - we will never know about this. But are names and surnames so important to us? This is the essence of all corporate crimes - they are committed by some faceless being. I can only come to the following specifics: those who ordered Freddie's murder were the US militaristic complex, which headed all speed programs at that time. The performers are the singer's personal doctor, Mr. Gordon Atkins, and his henchmen and Queen Productions employee Jim Beach.
In early 1987, a deadly hepatitis B vaccine was injected into the singer's body, causing catastrophic immunodeficiency. This vaccine has been tested on many gay men, and, in fact, it was she who launched the entire AIDS "epidemic" in the United States. The new medical macrocorporation, which can be conditionally called "SPIDPROM", is still very young. The program is managed by two equal forces - the US medical-industrial complex and the highest militaristic circles. The idea of a new biological weapon called AIDS is still maturing in the minds of its creators.
Many thousands of gays continue to die painfully and replenish the necessary statistics. The real cause of these deaths (the hepatitis B vaccine) is carefully hidden. Instead, an epidemic of an "unknown disease" tentatively named AIDS has been declared. But what to do next? The theory is not yet ready, there is also very little practice.
The military circles of the USSR immediately cut into this compote and make a statement: America is beginning to develop a new biological weapon. Our generals truly sense their overseas counterparts. In response, Time magazine (November 17, 1986) calls the Soviet opinion "contagious propaganda." On the same day, an editorial in the Times of India was published in New Delhi, which is in solidarity with the opinion of the USSR and warns against biological weapons, which may have already gone out of control of laboratories.
Back in 1984, Robert Gallo made a sensational statement about the discovery of a new “virus” (he never received the Nobel Prize, his theory was crushed), but all this is still behind-the-scenes talk, unsupported theory. There is no practice and a coherent concept yet. As, however, there is still no “medicine” that could be sold. Immunostimulants? By any medical logic, yes. But not according to the logic of the creators of bioweapons. They take the most toxic substance from the shelves of RakPROM, which did not even go to chemotherapy, conduct tests in record time and, to the applause of gay activists who demand a new, “innovative” drug, throw it on the market, raising astronomical sums at the very first time.
All this - 1986-1987. Years of birth of one of the most influential corporations today, years of truly frenzied activity of the top of the future SPIDPROM, which has not yet entered the period of stagnation. Money is being pumped in from everywhere, but primarily from the richest in the US and deeply partisan cancer funds.
To be credible, SPIDPROM desperately needs a rock star with an AIDS diagnosis. And preferably the biggest rock star.
The pro-speed top selects the most suitable guy for the role of the victim. Freddie. Firstly, it is a megastar, and therefore it will allow to carry out a really large advertising campaign of the rapidly developing SPIDPROM. Secondly, this person often visits gay clubs, and, of course, he dabbles in drugs. All of these are great to use.
Every year, only in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the number of newly infected with the human immunodeficiency virus increases by tens of thousands, but in our time, few people will be surprised by these figures. Actually, no one even thinks about the existence of this problem until it touches them, their loved ones, relatives, friends and acquaintances.
Gay? It seems so ... The government can now calm itself with ethical considerations, as the creator of the hepatitis B vaccine calmed himself with them, choosing as victims only those gays who are promiscuous sexual life. “Human garbage - gays and drug addicts. It will be better for everyone if we exterminate them ”- this is how the government justifies itself. At that time, AIDS was still being promoted as a strictly homosexual virus. Heterosexuals, as well as African children, can sleep well for now.
Akhundova writes: “In the mid-80s - early 90s, one of the dirtiest and darkest pages was inscribed in the history of Western show business, which can be conditionally called “hunting for stars”. Her victims were famous men - handsome men, millionaires and idols of millions, single or divorced. Rock Hudson, Freddie Mercury, Rudolf Nureyev ... The victim fell ill and burned out in record time. A well-known activist of the anti-AIDS struggle or the movement for the rights of sexual minorities was always at the bedside of the helpless dying. The cause of death was declared AIDS, and the deceased himself posthumously became a homosexual. The silence of relatives and friends was bought, agreements were made with managers and business companies, the reputation of the late idols was destroyed by publications about their wild sex life and scandalous revelations of self-proclaimed friends, which received wide press coverage. Spreading gossip about dead idols, they put pressure on the pity of the audience who sincerely loved them and called on everyone to fight AIDS by transferring modest (or not so) donations to all the same funds, using condoms and fighting for the rights of sexual minorities.
An analysis of materials on this topic led to a very disappointing conclusion - information about the illness and death of Freddie Mercury is classified. Even now, ten years after his death. You can find out everything about any famous person who died under such circumstances: the date of diagnosis - year, month and day, the name of the doctor who reported the terrible news, the number and name of the hospital where it happened, the approximate date when the unfortunate person was infected with HIV , how and where he was treated, in which hospitals and clinics he was, what medications he took and what procedures he underwent, how the disease proceeded, the name of the attending physician or doctors, etc. and so on. This can be learned about anyone - except for Mercury.
I don’t think that this can be found out about other victims of SPIDPROM, but with Mercury the matter was resolved instantly: his corpse is immediately cremated in the presence of a few relatives and relatives. The medical history is not available to anyone.
Why does “his” order for immediate cremation fit into the very first clause of his will (Freddie has repeatedly said how deeply he does not care about his funeral affairs)? Perhaps because Freddie's corpse evoked memories of concentration camps with their skeleton people, like that boy from Dachau, which shows the domestic film "Dead Season" in the very first frames? Something extremely scary? There is, however, another explanation.
We stumble upon this explanation when reading the memoirs of Jim Hutton, a wife, not a wife, a servant, or a friend, or best friend, but definitely one of the closest people of Freddie's recent years. Apparently, Jim Hutton can be trusted in something. Perhaps he added some porn pictures of himself, perhaps he makes himself too independent and even arrogant towards Freddie, perhaps Freddie never had sex with him at all, but only kissed him on the forehead and they lived like two monks , which Freddie spoke about in an interview in Ibiza in 1987, but, apparently, he was the last friend of the great singer, with whom he felt comfortable and at home, desperate to find a homemaker in any of his women.
So the tabloids strike first. Jim says:
“On our return from our Japanese vacation, as soon as we left passport control, a photographer and reporter from Fleet Street ran up to us, shoving a scary story about AIDS under Freddie's nose. Under the headline "Queen Freddie Star Shocked by AIDS". News of the World wrote that Freddie secretly took an AIDS test at a clinic on Harley Street under his real name Freddie Balsara. The results showed that he did not have a "fatal disease". The article was rubbish from start to finish.
Freddie was confused. Why didn't anyone from Queen's office in London raise the alarm and tell him about this story? “Do I look like I'm dying of AIDS? Freddie asked. "I'm sick of all this, now go and leave me alone."
“Do I look like I'm dying of AIDS? Freddy is perplexed,” was the next Sun headline. Freddie was furious."
So, the first attack took place at the beginning of 1986, the first seed of the pro-AIDS legend was thrown into the consciousness of the masses, through the yellow press, which was firmly tied to SPIDPROM in a corporate manner. From now on, in the eyes of the public, Freddie and AIDS begin to coexist. More from a dirty article was not required.
But Freddie starts to get seriously nervous. In addition, people revolve around him, talking about their friends dying of AIDS. Do not forget: at that time, gay activists develop a frenzied activity.
All these people make him think about the invincibility of a deadly disease. Freddie decides to stop casual relationships and take up the mind.
Akhundova: “In May 1987, the Sun printed the scandalous interview Paul Prenter, in which Mercury appeared as the organizer of cocaine parties and sexual orgies, an active gay man who had hundreds of men.
Very little time passes, and a scandalous interview with Mercury appears in the press, in which he speaks very frankly about the problem of AIDS and his personal life: “AIDS completely changed my outlook on things. I used to be very depraved, but now I sit at home, I don’t go anywhere ... I think everyone who has had promiscuity should take an AIDS test ... I myself was tested, I’m clean ... "
As soon as the newspaper was published, an enraged Freddie called the editorial office demanding an apology and refutation. The interview did take place, but Freddie spoke about his creative plans for the future, a little about his personal life, but he did not openly talk about debauchery and AIDS, or about medical tests. The editor apologized and promised to sort it out, but there was no refutation, moreover, this fake now adorns all books about Mercury and Queen.
There is only one task for near-musical gays: Freddie must pass an HIV test. The doctor himself cannot advise him this: it would be highly incorrect. Close friends are needed, and preferably with a diagnosis of HIV / AIDS.
At that time, everyone notes that Freddie is alive, healthy and full of strength and energy. But soon the tabloids start up another duck: two alleged partners of Freddie recently died of AIDS. And apparently, Freddie buys for this duck.
He is watched by the best doctors, entering with him into the most friendly relations. He cannot get into the wrong clinic - all clinics that test for HIV are under the unified control of SPIDPROM. The warmest gays tell him about the best clinics, where the tests are the most accurate, and the equipment is the best, and the most delicious smells, and such lovely black sisters ... In short, everything is prepared for the singer to take up his mind and pass the necessary test . And Freddie went to that very clinic.
Akhundova believes: “Mercury was infected with AIDS in September 1986, at London's Harley Street Hospital. What happened in Harley Street was not a medical error or negligence, but a carefully planned contract killing. Otherwise, the Sun would not have known about it so quickly.”
I comment right away: it is impossible to infect with AIDS, AIDS (by their own definition) is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, “developing in the presence of HIV infection”. HIV infection is also impossible to infect. Because this is not an infection, but a retrovirus, something from the field of a healthy reaction of the body to extraneous intrusions. What was Freddie infected with? What will lead it to that catastrophic state that everyone will talk about starting from 1989-1990?
And then Jim Hutton, unexpectedly for himself, gives us a clear and exhaustive answer to this question. He reports in his memoirs that after visiting the clinic, Freddie suddenly called him and said: "The doctors have just taken a big lump out of me." Despair is heard in his tone, and Jim decides to come to Freddie to calm him down. In the bedroom, Freddie points out to Jim " a tiny mark on the shoulder the size of a fingernail, sewn with two stitches. Doctors have just taken a piece of his flesh for examination, and the results are as follows: AIDS was found ”(emphasis mine. - Auth.). (Literally: "He pointed to a tiny mark on his shoulder, no bigger than a thumbnail and with two tiny stitches in it. The doctors had taken a piece of his flesh for testing and the results had just come back. He had Aids" .) The fact is that what Jim Hutton described cannot be the result of an HIV test! The HIV test is a simple blood draw. Freddie showed Jim the vaccine mark!
Apparently, Freddie Mercury introduced the most terrible vaccine - the Zhmuness vaccine, or the hepatitis vaccine, the very tested vaccine with which they began to unleash the AIDS epidemic, killing thousands of gays in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco in early 80s! Proven weapon!
Freddie tells Jim that doctors have discovered AIDS and they are the best doctors. Jim advises him to go to another clinic, but what does Jim's words mean in comparison with the authority of "medical luminaries"? One way or another, Freddie is announced a "death sentence", and, judging by the words of Jim, he really begins to take AZT pesticides (the so-called AIDS drugs), which further aggravate his condition.
The killers could have limited themselves to one AZT, as they did with hundreds of thousands of "HIV-infected" first in the first and then in the third world, but this time they chose a more reliable method of killing: in the end, the victim can change his mind, send away from all the doctors and flush the medicine down the toilet - and we won't see dead Freddie. And no one needs a sick Freddie. Freddy only needs a dead one.
It is from this moment that Freddie's health will begin to deteriorate catastrophically. The vaccine will take about four years to completely destroy Freddie Mercury.
So I answer Mariam: Freddie was not infected with the AIDS virus, which does not exist in nature, and not even with the HIV retrovirus, which is harmless, Freddie, according to the already run-in scheme, was infected with a lethal hepatitis B vaccine - a biological weapon tested on thousands of gay people in the USA and , apparently stored in the Tavistock Institute - the most secret institution in Britain.
Let's turn to The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot by physician Alan Cantwell Jr. About the very first steps of SPIDPROM. Back in the 1960s, epidemiologists found that the gay community was five times more susceptible to hepatitis B, a sexually transmitted infection. The developer of the vaccine is a certain Wolf (or Wolf) Zhmuness, a Polish Jew with a very cool biography, who spent time in the Gulag, worked as a doctor in Poland and emigrated to America in the 60s. The hepatitis B vaccine became his life's work.
A recognized world authority on hepatitis, by the end of the 70s he receives a grant of millions of dollars and gets to work: he is introduced to gays, he walks around the ghetto and studies bars, discos and baths. He brings gay doctors and gay activists into his staff. As guinea pigs, he chooses only homosexuals and only those who live promiscuous sex lives.
It was a very expensive experiment that involved many large US medical institutions and such pharmaceutical giants as Merck, Abbott Laboratories, and others. That is, the entire corporate bundle. Here is what Alan Cantwell himself, who participated in these trials in Los Angeles and San Francisco as a researcher, writes:
“In the late 70s, a car with a red cross drove through the streets of the gay neighborhoods of Greenwich Village in Manhattan, looking for potential volunteers among gays. About 10 thousand people agreed to participate in the Zhmuness experiment and donate blood.<...>The first group of homosexuals was vaccinated in November 1978 at a donor center in New York City. The experiment continued until October 1979. More than 1,000 men from Manhattan have been injected with the Zhmuness vaccine. In January 1979, a few months after Wolf Zhmuness began the experiment, purple spots began to appear on the skin of young white gay men from the Village. Doctors were not sure what exactly was wrong with these men. Over the next 30 months, physicians in Manhattan faced a dozen cases of a new illness characterized by acute immunodeficiency, Kaposi's sarcoma, and a rapidly developing fatal lung disease known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (let's call it bronchial pneumonia). All the men were young gays and were promiscuous. Almost all of them were white. All died in terrible agony.
Within a few years AIDS will be declared main reason death of young men and women living in New York. Manhattan's gay neighborhoods will be declared the epicenter of the country's new AIDS epidemic.
Wolf was delighted with the huge success of his hepatitis experiments. In March 1980, under the supervision of the CDC, additional experiments were carried out on gay men in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis and Chicago. In the fall of 1980, the first case of AIDS was recorded in young man from San Francisco.
Six months later, in June 1981, the AIDS epidemic became official. Epidemiologists and health experts could not find a reason why a large number of young white formerly healthy homosexual men have died mysteriously in Manhattan, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
In the early 1980s, Zhmuness was rewarded with millions of dollars for his experiments, and his highly successful hepatitis vaccine was hailed as having truly limitless global significance. He began to cooperate with the largest medical institutions in the country: the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, the FDA, WHO (WHO), the Cornwall School of Public Health, Yale and Harvard, the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences ...
In June 1982, Wolf Zhmuness died suddenly of lung cancer. I have not been able to find an obituary for his death in any of the medical journals, with the exception of a short report by Aaron Kellner.
Reviewing the posthumous significance of the deceased and his scientific achievements, Aaron Kellner writes: “He was a typical doctor for doctors. Most physicians have an impact on the lives of a few hundred or a few thousand people in their professional career. Some lucky people can influence the lives of several million. A rare doctor, like Wolf Zhmuness, is given the grace to touch the lives of billions of people - people living on this planet, and generations not yet born.
Most people don't know about the hepatitis B vaccine trials on gay men that preceded the mass deaths in gay neighborhoods. But the details of the trials of this vaccine, as well as its impact on the health of male homosexuals, are somehow recorded for posterity in the annals of medical science.
On May 11, 1984, a fateful meeting took place in honor of Wolf Zhmuness. One of the most famous visitors was Dr. Robert Gallo, who just three weeks ago announced his discovery of the AIDS virus.<...>Despite the medical authorities' refusal to acknowledge the link between Zhmuness's experiments on gay men and the outbreaks of the AIDS epidemic in American cities, the link is clear. This is not my imagination. And this is no coincidence. The more I studied the hepatitis B vaccine experiments, the more I realized that this was genocide and biological weapons.” End of quote.
At the end of 1984, doctors took him terrible diagnosis- AIDS, to which, however, Nuriev reacted quite calmly. He was treated using the latest drugs, and continued to work. He lived with this disease for a total of 12 years (by the time of diagnosis, it had already developed in the body for 4 years), which, according to the general opinion of doctors, is an exorbitant period, and not only lived, but worked almost until the last day. Nuriev could not imagine himself outside the dance and outside the stage.
So, purple spots on the skin, acute immunodeficiency, Kaposi's sarcoma and a rapidly developing fatal lung disease - these are the main signs of the effect of the vaccine that the doctor talks about. We find all this in the scattered memoirs, but never collected together, the medical history of Freddie Mercury.
On a cold February morning, when Freddie Mercury showed up at the Wembley TV studio to start work on the video for his single Im Going Slightly Mad, film crew was in shock. There was nothing left of the former smooth-faced, muscular Freddie. He looked more like a ghost of himself. Clothes hung on him, his gray face was covered with spots ”(Rick Sky. Freddie Mercury).
“In the following months, the stain spread to the nose, neck, shoulders and legs. Like Mary Austin, Valentine confirmed that Freddie was in terrible pain and took painkillers. He never complained about his suffering” (ibid.).
“German actress Barbara Valentin, with whom Freddie was very friendly, recalls that she learned about his illness in 1987, one of the first. She saw a dark spot appear on his face, which was one of the manifestations of Kaposi's syndrome, which often accompanies the development of AIDS. Barbara had buried many friends who died of this disease, she had no doubts. “The ground shook under my feet,” she said. - I looked at Freddie, and he looked at me. We didn't talk about it, but I knew the truth. I said that he could not go on stage in this form, and helped to hide the stain under the makeup ”(Enina T.V. Something more).
Catastrophic immunodeficiency, which is noted by everyone who has encountered it in recent years, I think, does not need comments. The official diagnosis of Freddie's death - "bronchial pneumonia that developed on the background of AIDS" - once again confirms the Clinical Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
Freddie knew his diagnosis and stoically fought the unknown disease to the end. In his songs, he conveyed the persecution invisible to the world, which he could not help but feel, but he could not fully understand all the springs that make it up. Out of disgust for the tabloids and all their entourage, he did not want to let them in on a cannon shot, fading away in a circle of servants, quiet friends, former lovers. Only to them does he reveal a terrible diagnosis - and during his lifetime no one betrays him. What happens after death does not concern him personally, and this is another stage of the disease - the disease of the whole society infected with AIDS. The day before his death, Freddie signs the application submitted to him:
“Given the rumors that have been circulating in the press for the past two weeks, I want to confirm that my blood test showed the presence of HIV. I have AIDS. I considered it necessary to keep this information a secret in order to keep the peace of my family and friends. However, the time has come to tell the truth to my friends and fans around the world. I hope everyone will join the fight against this terrible disease."
He also ordered that all rights to the Bohemian Rhapsody song be transferred to the newly created Terrence Higgins Prosid Fund. In the will, however, the money is given to the cancer fund, but there is no contradiction here, it's just a tiny inconsistency solved by one transaction: cancer and AIDS funds are one and the same feeder. The lion's share of funding for AIDS programs came from cancer foundations, just as the HIV retrovirus was studied in cancer programs by Duisberg, Gallo, and Montague, and cancer money went to experiments to exterminate gays in America. SPIDPROM is generally the legitimate brainchild of RakPROM, its beloved offspring.
Does this clause of the will shed light on the fact that Freddie died of cancer? Hardly. Most likely, the drafters of the will entered a cancer fund familiar with all AIDS programs, because it was more convenient for them at that time.
The official version says: the next day, November 24, around seven o'clock in the evening, Freddie Mercury died at his home in London from "bronchial pneumonia that developed on the background of AIDS."
And now the main thing is to immediately burn the corpse, because there is a mark on it, which Jim told us about. No one should know that Freddie's body was injected with a hepatitis B vaccine, whose deadly effect is already known to many doctors and researchers.
In the will, this item fits in the very first place.
Here is what Mariam writes: “Everyone thinks that the closed, almost secret funeral of Freddie is the will of him and his relatives. However, according to Freestone, this decision was personally made by Jim Beach. It was he who reduced the number of guests at the funeral to a minimum, ordering everyone who would call about this to be sent to his office. It was he, from beginning to end, who was in charge of both the funeral itself and those who were admitted to them and who were not, and who would be invited to the house and who would not be invited. And it was he who ordered that no relatives of the deceased be allowed into the Garden Lodge. It was he who remained to wait for the end of the cremation, when everyone else had left.
Translated into normal language, this is Beach's merit, which is world wide famous person and the idol of millions was buried as an executed criminal: without a normal farewell, a civil memorial service, the opportunity to pay the last debt even at a distance. He made Freddie's death the pretext for a cynical fundraiser for Terrence Higgins' gay foundation. Already on the day of the funeral, he discussed the idea of a tribute and the creation of the Phoenix Foundation, at the same time the idea of releasing Rhapsody in favor of the same gay foundation Terrence Higgins was discussed.
After that, Big Farmo begins to capture the strategic foothold of rock - the spiritual foundation on which the revolutionary energy of rock music is based. Namely - charity concerts. Which until now have been an exceptionally honest affair. With a tribute concert to the memory of Freddie Mercury, held in April 1991, SPIDPROM strikes death blow at the heart of pop culture: he draws it into the biggest scam of the late 20th century. Rock has found a new meaning and a new content - and it will not only pump money into prosid tax-free funds, but also lose its revolutionary content, merging with the expanding gay movement. The revolution is over, now it is taken over by the world government and its new corporation "SPIDPROM". You can interpret the texts and music as you like - from now on the very meaning of what is happening has been changed. The era of rock charity is being replaced by an era of rock for AIDS. Sleep well, dear comrades. The revolution is headed in the right direction of entropy - or the new world order.
Thanks to Freddie's death, the growing AIDS industry breaks into show business and throws such a concert in their honor that from now on the history of rock, if not crushed, then reversed. An independent musical corporation, conditionally - Britpop, until then held relatively proudly and especially, becomes tied with Big Farmo by many threads - and in fact a new history of rock begins. Soon there are more and more mega-concerts "to raise funds for patients with AIDS", rock music is becoming more and more a toy in the hands of pro-AIDS puppeteers. The rebellious tendencies of fate and man are skillfully redirected by Big Farmo into a safe and non-revolutionary area - and this was the task of the speed counter-reformation: to reduce society to a state of stagnation and stagnation, to deprive people of any positive direction. To impose on him frank delirium. Finally turn society into a kingdom of distorting mirrors. And now we see a simple result - a dead, worthless 2000s and, apparently, an even more worthless 2010s. Show must go on…
Freddie Mercury is a British singer of Parsi origin, songwriter, vocalist of the rock band Queen. His voice is considered one of the greatest in the history of music, and his songs are still known and sung all over the world.
About how Freddie Mercury managed to reach such heights, we will tell in this.
Biography of Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury (birth name Farrukh Balsara) was born on September 5, 1946 in the Zanzibar Stone Town.
His father, Bomi Bulsara, worked as a cashier at the Supreme Court. Mother, Jer Bulsara, was engaged. After Farrukh, a Kashmiri girl was born in the family.
Mercury spent most of his childhood in India. At the age of 7, he began to take lessons. A year later, the parents sent their son to study at St. Peter's School.
According to relatives, great attention he was influenced by the work of the singer Lata Mangeshkar.
At school, in addition to traditional subjects, students were taught cricket and long-distance running, which the future rock musician did not like at all.
Instead, he preferred to play field hockey and was also into boxing.
Freddie with sister Kashmira The young man had good physical data, thanks to which he won in the third grade in school competitions on tennis. At the age of 12, he won the cup in the youth all-around.
In addition, Freddie Mercury was keenly interested in. He sang and listened to rock and roll, which was just beginning to gain popularity.
However the greatest interest he showed himself to music.
The first who drew attention to his abilities was the director of the school.
He personally wrote a letter to the parents of the student, in which he insisted that their son continue to study the piano.
According to friends, as soon as Freddie heard new song on the radio, he immediately sat down at the piano, and by ear began to reproduce the melody he heard.
In 1958, Mercury founded a rock band with friends. At rehearsals, the guys sang famous songs that time. In 1962, Mercury graduated from high school and returned home.
After 2 years, political unrest began in Zanzibar, as a result of which the family had to move to.
Path to glory
In England, Freddie Mercury began to study at Islesworth, where he studied art and wrote. Later, these skills helped him create the coat of arms of the Queen group.
Due to financial difficulties, the future singer had to look for a part-time job. For some time he worked as a loader, but he always said that this was only a temporary phenomenon in his life.
Over time, Mercury wanted to live separately from his parents. Together with a friend, he rented an apartment in which they often held rehearsals. Freddie's favorite guitarist was Jimi Hendrix, still considered one of the most outstanding guitarists in history.
Soon, Mercury met Tim Staffel, who was the frontman of the Smile group, as well as other members of this group. Sometimes he was invited to rehearsals, which he was very interested in attending.
In 1969, Freddie graduated and decided to open a small shop with Roger Taylor. It sold various works by Mercury, as well as other art objects.
In the same year, he met the members of the Ibex musical group. He was so impressed with the work of the group that after a few weeks he knew all their songs by heart.
However, the team soon broke up. An interesting fact is that it was during this period that Freddie began to write his own compositions.
Since even in his youth he wanted to become a musician, he decided to look for a job in this area. After reviewing a lot of different ads, Mercury decided to audition for the Sour Milk Sea group, which required a vocalist.
The band's musicians liked Mercury's unusual voice and the way he behaved on stage. After a couple of weeks, the group began to give concerts. However, this team also broke up, as a result of which Freddie was forced to start all over again.
1970-1982
In 1970, the lead singer left the Smile group, replaced by Freddie Mercury. After several joint rehearsals, the team members decided to change their name to "Queen".
In 1972, Farrukh Balsara decided to take creative pseudonym- Freddie Mercury, with whom he will go down in history.
In this composition, they managed to record a lot of songs that allowed them to go on tour. Every year, Queen's songs became more and more popular.
Queen group In 1980, when the great Russian bard died, Mercury decided to change his image. He began to wear short hair, and grew a black mustache. It is in this form that in the future it will become known to the whole world.
1983-1988
In 1982, the musicians of Queen decided to suspend creative activity because they are tired of countless concerts and moves.
However, Freddie himself did not want to stop, but rather sought to work even harder. He was able to write a number of songs and record a solo album.
In 1983, Mercury met with famous singer Montserrat Caballe, which made a strong impression on him. A few years later, Mercury gave her a cassette with his songs.
Caballe appreciated his work, and a few weeks later they began work on joint project. As a result, the duo recorded a record, the songs from which they then jointly performed at various festivals.
It seemed to the rock singer that he was just beginning his creative way, and major successes are yet to come. However, he soon learned that he had AIDS.
After that, he recorded an album that traced the theme of his illness. The last time the legendary leader of the Queen group appeared on the scene was in the fall of 1988.
Mercury's personal life
Freddie Mercury had incredible charisma and charm.
Mercury and Mary Austin at a Queen party, July 1986 In 1969, he met Mary Austin, with whom he was together for 8 years.
Over time, Freddie began to be interested not only in women, but also in men. When Mary found out about this, she decided to end her relationship with Mercury.
At the same time, it is worth noting that the couple broke up very peacefully, and throughout the rest of the singer's life maintained friendly relations.
Later, Austin even became the personal secretary of a former boyfriend.
After Mary, Freddie had many women, but he did not have real feelings for any of them. The only and beloved girl of his whole life was Mary Austin.
He dedicated many songs to her, and also bequeathed his own mansion with a huge courtyard.
Freddie Mercury children
Mercury himself always wanted to have children, which he often admitted to friends. However, he did not succeed in leaving behind offspring. Fans of the artist believed that this was due to his unconventional orientation.
He himself did not like to answer such questions, and in every possible way avoided this topic. The musician's friends stated that Freddie was gay, which he himself did not hide.
Freddie Mercury before his death
For the first time, rumors that Mercury had AIDS appeared in 1986. The press began to actively discuss this topic, which aroused great interest in society.
Queen fans claimed that the musician had noticeably lost weight, which further confirmed the presence of a fatal illness. It is worth noting that publicly Freddie denied that he had AIDS. Only friends and relatives knew the truth.
Realizing that he had very little time left to live, Mercury wanted to record as many songs as possible. He spent a long time in the studios, sparing no effort and time.
The last video clip featuring Freddie Mercury was filmed in black and white. This was done on purpose so that the audience could not notice the critical state of his health.
On November 23, 1991, the musician admitted that he was indeed HIV-positive, since it was no longer possible to hide this fact.
He transferred all rights to his work to a foundation formed to protect seriously ill people. 4 years after the death of the great rock singer, another album was released with his compositions.
How did Freddie die?
Freddie Mercury died on November 24, 1991 at the age of 45. official reason his death is thought to be bronchopneumonia caused by AIDS.
When the fans learned of the death of the musician, they gathered near his house to say goodbye to him. Flowers, notes, posters and other items lay everywhere.
Singer's funeral
The funeral of Freddie Mercury took place according to Zoroastrian customs, although in life he did not adhere to the rules of this religion. Parents insisted on observing all traditions. The ceremony was attended by various famous personalities.
Freddie's body was cremated and the ashes given to Mary Austin. About where the remains of the musician were buried is still unknown to anyone, except for close relatives.
In his will, Mercury bequeathed the bulk of the funds to Mary, parents, and sister Kashmira. Interestingly, besides them, he left enough large sums people who worked with him.
Despite the fact that Freddie Mercury died almost 30 years ago, his popularity has not diminished at all. Various events are held in his honour. music festivals and erecting monuments.
In 2002, Freddie Mercury was ranked 58th in a poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.
In 2008 the magazine Rolling stone ranked him #18 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Vocalists of All Time.
Allmusic described him as "one of the greatest rock singers and possessor of one of the greatest voices in the history of music."
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Farrukh Bulsara, whom we know as the cult vocalist of Queen Freddie Mercury, was born in Tanzania in 1946. Farrukh's parents - Bomi and Jer - were Parsis (followers of the teachings of Zoroaster). 6 years after the appearance of the son, the daughter of Kashmir was born in the Bulsara family. At that time, the family moved to India and settled in Bombay. 6-year-old Farrukh was sent to school. There was an educational institution quite far from Bombay, in the city of Panchgani. The grandfather and aunt of the boy lived there, with whom he stayed. At school, English-speaking classmates started calling Farrukh "Freddie".
Freddie was a diligent student. He quickly became interested in sports, choosing for himself hockey, tennis and boxing. And the boy became interested in music and painting. He drew well, distributing drawings to all friends and relatives. But most of all Farrukh loved to sing. Classes in the school choir took him a lot of time. The school director drew attention to the excellent vocals of the student. He invited the boy's parents to develop his abilities in piano courses, promising to ask for a small price. Thus Freddie Mercury began to visit music courses. Upon graduation, he was marked as the best student.
At the age of 12, Freddie and his friends organized a rock band called The Hectics. The guys played and sang at school discos and wherever they were accepted.
In 1962, the future leader of Queen, who was 16 years old, graduated from high school in India and returned to Zanzibar, where his parents again moved. After 2 years, the power on the island changed: Zanzibar declared its independence from England. Riots began. The Bulsara family moved to London.
In 1965, the guy becomes a student at the prestigious Ealing College, where he studies painting and design, and also continues to study music and ballet dances. Mercury calls his idols and.
"Queen"
While studying in Ealing, Freddie left his parents' house and rented an apartment in the Kensington area, where the London bohemia settled. Housing Bulsara rented with friend and musician Chris Smith. During this time, Freddie also met college colleague Tim Staffel. Tim was the leader musical group"Smile". Soon Freddie began attending band rehearsals, where he met all the musicians. He became especially close with drummer Roger Taylor, to whom he soon moved.
After graduating from college in 1969, 23-year-old Freddie came out with a degree in graphic design. He painted a lot. Together with Taylor, they opened a small shop where, among other goods, Bulsar's works were sold.
In the same year, Freddie met the musicians of the Ibex band from Liverpool. A few days later he knew the entire repertoire of Ibex and even added some of his own songs. After the collapse of Ibex, Freddie, who did not represent later life without music, found a new band through a newspaper ad. It was called the Sour Milk Sea. The newcomer was accepted immediately, as they saw and heard what he was capable of. Freddie moved beautifully, and his voice of 4 octaves did not leave anyone indifferent.
After one of the musicians left him, the group disbanded. But in its place, a new one was born, which was called "Queen". It consisted of musicians from two former bands. In 1971, the composition of Queen, after many changes, becomes permanent. Freddie drew the emblem of the band with the letter Q in the center and the zodiac signs of the musicians around. In 1972, when the band was recording their debut album, Freddie changed his surname Bulsara, taking the creative pseudonym Mercury.
Soon, a song by Freddie Mercury called "Seven Seas of Rhye" enters the British charts. A year later, in 1874, Queen's first hit appeared - the composition "Killer Queen". It was immediately followed by the group's most successful song, "Bohemian Rhapsody". She stayed at the top of the charts for 9 weeks. The first ever video clip was filmed for it.
Later, "Bohemian Rhapsody" was named the best song of the millennium by The Official Charts Company. The second hit "We Are The Champions" becomes the unofficial anthem of the champions of sports competitions and the Olympics.
In 1975, the group toured Japan. This was not the first foreign tour of Queen, by that time the musicians had already performed in the USA. But such a resounding success happened for the first time. The musicians felt like stars. Freddie Mercury fell in love with the country then rising sun and started collecting Japanese art.
In October 1979, the dream of a musician from Zanzibar comes true: Mercury performed with the Royal Ballet with his hits "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". The following year, Freddie radically changed his image: for the first time, he cut his hair short.
In 1982, the band announced a hiatus from the touring schedule for a year. Mercury took advantage of the respite and recorded his first solo album in Munich. In May of the following year, the musician met.
July 13, 1985 can be considered the peak musical career Mercury and Queen. The group participated in a grand show at Wembley Stadium, where, in addition to them, many other stars sang. But it was Mercury's performance that was unanimously recognized as the main performance and the highlight of the program. The 75,000-strong crowd experienced real euphoria during Queen's performance. It was after this concert that Freddie became a rock legend.
A year later, the team made the last tour called "Magic Tour". Within its framework, the last concerts took place together with Freddie Mercury. This time, 120,000 fans gathered at Wembley Stadium. The concert was later published under the title "Queen at Wembley". The tour ended in Knebworth. More Mercury did not perform with the group.
In the spring of 1987, Freddie and Montserrat Caballe began work on a joint album called "Barcelona" and was released in October 1988. At the same time, a joint concert of the singer and opera diva took place in Barcelona. It was last performance legends.
Illness and death
Rumors about Freddie Mercury's illness appeared back in 1986. Information that the singer passed the HIV test was leaked to the press. In 1989, the disturbing rumors, which Mercury himself denied to the last, were confirmed: Freddie lost a lot of weight. His emaciated appearance served as the most convincing proof of a terrible illness.
During this period, Mercury worked hard from last strength realizing that there is a lot to be done. He recorded songs for the next two albums: "The Miracle" (1989) and "Innuendo" (1991). The clips for the latter are black and white. This was the only way to disguise Freddie's changed appearance.
On November 23, 1991, Mercury officially announced that he had AIDS. The next day, November 24, Freddie was gone. He was buried according to the Zoroastrian rite, retreating in only one: the body was cremated. Only relatives were present at the funeral. Only Mary Austin's family and friend knew where Mercury's ashes were buried. In 2013, fans found the burial site: Kensal Green Cemetery in west London.
Personal life
Freddie Mercury met the closest person in his life, Mary Austin, in 1969. After several years of marriage, they broke up: Freddie admitted that he was bisexual. But the friendship and close relationship between the couple remained until the death of Mercury. Austin was Freddie's personal secretary. He dedicated the song "Love of My Life" to her. It was Mary Austin, the musician who left his mansion and most of his fortune as a legacy. He was godfather to her eldest son, Richard.
Mercury later had a brief affair with actress Barbara Valentine.
After Freddie's death, talk about his orientation did not stop. There were interviews of his friends in which they confirmed that the musician was gay. This was stated by Brian May and Roger Taylor, who knew Mercury closely.
He spoke about the singer's bisexuality, and Freddie's personal assistant Peter Freestone published a memoir in which he mentioned several men with whom the musician had a close relationship. Jim Hutton spoke about his 6-year connection with the legend in the book Mercury and Me.
Discography
- Seven Seas of Rhye
- love kills
- Made in Heaven
- Living on My Own
- Love of My Life
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- We Are The Champions Barcelona
- How Can I Go On
At the head of Freddie Mercury's bed, with the keys to him, there was a piano - so that if the musician needed to play something, he could do it without wasting time. With all his hectic lifestyle, the leader of The Queen did not waste a second, confirmation of this are dozens of songs that have become classics ..
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Freddie Mercury's real name is Farrukh Bulsara. "Farrukh" in translation from Zanzibar means "beautiful", "happy". Officially, the future rock star changed her name in 1970. When they addressed him as Farrukh, Mercury became furious.
By nationality, Mercury was a Parsi ( ethnic group Iranian origin, professing Zoroastrianism).
The first group of Mercury, then Bulsara, was the school ensemble The Hectics (“Fidgets”).
After graduating from London's Ealing College of Art, he received a diploma in graphic design. Emblem bands The Queen, consisting of the signs of the zodiac, Mercury invented and painted himself.
Freddie Mercury had a long (7 years) relationship with Mary Austin. In 1976, the artist confessed to her his own bisexuality, the couple broke up, but until the end of their lives they were close friends. Austin served as Mercury's secretary; according to her will, part of the musician's fortune and his house were transferred to her.
IN everyday life Freddie Mercury was extremely shy. This was one of the reasons why the artist rarely gave interviews.
Mercury loved cats, at the same time he sometimes had at least 10 animals. Tailed is dedicated to the solo album of the musician Mr Bad Guy, his favorite cat - the song Delilah with last album The Queen (Innuendo). While on tour, Mercury regularly called home and talked to cats for hours.
Favorite country The leader Queen was Japan.
His idols in music were John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix.
Mercury himself considered The Game (1980; includes songs such as Play the Game and Another One Bites the Dust) to be the best album by The Queen.
Song Crazy Little Thing Called Love with album The Game was written by Mercury in the bathroom, arranged and recorded in the studio in half an hour. This is the only track in which Freddie Mercury plays the guitar.
The artist considered Somebody To Love his most successful song.
The artist's favorite color was yellow. A special variety of yellow roses is named after him.
He was an avid philatelist.
Before one of the concerts in Britain, Mercury got into a fight with his then partner Billy Reid. He bit the musician's hand until it bled.
During another quarrel, Reid and Mercury yelled at each other for several hours in a row, as a result, the artist lost his voice the next morning - and this was on the eve of a performance on the Saturday Night Live television show. The medical team spent a lot of effort and money so that by the evening the singer's vocal abilities would return to normal.
While on tour in the US, Freddie Mercury found out that his partner Tony Bastin was dating someone else. Mercury demanded that Bastin fly to him and at the meeting said that everything was over between them. Immediately after that, the artist sent the unfaithful boyfriend back to England, and after returning from the tour, he took the cat away.
The greatest hits compilation The Queen, released in October 1981, is the best-selling British album in the history of music (over 25 million copies).
The song Barcelona from Mercury's eponymous solo album, released in 1988, became the anthem of the 1992 Olympics.
The Queen concert in Sao Paulo in 1981 went down in history as largest number listeners who paid for tickets (251,000).
Despite the classic musical education, Mercury has repeatedly admitted that he does not know the notes well.
In 1987, Mercury covered the 60s hit The Great Pretender (“The Great Pretender”). In his performance, the song received a second life, and the artist himself was regularly called the "Great Pretender".
The artist made a statement that he had AIDS the day before his death. Mercury was positively diagnosed with AIDS four years earlier, in the spring of 1987.
The last song he recorded was Mother Love, which was not included in the Innuendo album (four years later it was released on the Made in Heaven record). The final verse for the seriously ill artist was sung by the band's guitarist Brian May.
The sixth film in the Freddy Krueger film franchise, Freddy Is Dead. The Last Nightmare hit theaters on Mercury's last birthday, September 5th. The soundtrack to the film was written by the full namesake of guitarist The Queen Brian May.
According to the Zoroastrian tradition, a person is buried, giving his body to the vultures - so as not to offend fire, water, earth, air. Despite this, Freddie Mercury was cremated, as British law allows for burial either by cremation or by burial. However, the singer's funeral ceremony was attended by a Zoroastrian priest.
One version says that the ashes of the artist were scattered in his homeland in Zanzibar. According to another, it was made near Lake Geneva, next to Mercury's house.
Freddie Mercury is mentioned in Kurt Cobain's suicide note: the Nirvana leader speaks of his admiration for his colleague, his ability to accept the love of the public.
In a biography released last year, musician Rod Stewart talked about plans to create a supergroup that would include himself, Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
Ranked 58th on the list of the 100 Greatest Britons. The list is based on a poll conducted in 2002 by the BBC.
The Queen is the first band to use video screens in concert, the first classic rock band to have more than 2 million downloads on iTunes.
Then, in 2002, Mercury's Bohemian Rhapsody was named the most beloved British pop song in the history of music.
