FREDDIE MERCURY. This Monday, June 20, W9 is broadcasting the film “Bohemian Rhapsody”, directed by Bryan Singer and which traces the dazzling success of Queen and its singer, Freddie Mercury.
[Mis à jour le 20 juin 2022 à 19h59] In the film released in 2018 Bohemian Rhapsody, directed by Bryan Singer and broadcast this Monday, June 20 on W9, is mentioned the only marriage of Freddie Mercury, interpreted by Rami Malek, with Mary Austin. The couple first met in 1969 in a London store. Mary Austin is then 19 years old and is a saleswoman in this fashion store. Freddie Mercury is 24 years old. The couple will remain together for six years, but Mary Austin will remain alongside her former husband until his death in 1991. It was she who hesitated from his home in Garden Lodge, London, estimated at 23 million euros.
Since marrying Freddie Mercury, Mary Austin has remarried twice and had two sons. Daughter of a housekeeper and an upholsterer, the one who grew up in a modest environment will also have received the mission of scattering the ashes of the former leader of Queen in a place that has remained secret.
Queen in the spotlight on W9. This Monday evening, the TNT channel broadcasts, from 9:10 p.m., the film Bohemian Rhapsody, released in 2018 and which traces the career of the group’s charismatic leader, Freddie Mercury. The film Bohemian Rhapsody was a great success, despite the director’s forced departure, replaced by Dexter Fletcher two weeks before the end of filming, but also by a few errors pointed out by Queen fans and informed observers.
Because if this feature film, which traces the fate of the legendary group and its singer, the latter is played by Rami Malek, created the event when it was released, it also surprised by some scriptwriting liberties taken by its creators. .giving the screen big approximations. Here are a few :
- The arrival of Freddie Mercury in Queen, which only happened once Tim Staffel left, despite several requests from the future leader of the group. A period reduced to mere minutes in Bohemian Rhapsody.
- Several characters in the film have had their roles changed, such as John Deacon, who was Queen’s fourth bass player and not the first, or Ray Foster, who was completely invented.
- Freddie Mercury doesn’t have brown eyes, but blue ones.
- The Queen singer only sported a mustache in 1980, not when he composed We Will Rock You.
- Queen’s split was never official.
- Freddie Mercury discovered that he had AIDS two years after the mythical Live Aid and not before this show as it is told in the film. The Queen frontman would only publicly reveal that he was HIV-positive two days before his death on November 22, 1991.
- Jim Hutton, boyfriend of Freddie Mercury never worked for the singer.
The mythical singer of the group Queen, Freddie Mercury, whose real name is Farrokh Bulsara, was born in Zanzibar in 1946. Passionate about music, he joined his first rock group, The Hectics. After his studies, he joined the group Smile and renamed it Queen in 1970. Farrokh Bulsara then took the nickname Freddie Mercury. The group becomes a legendary group and meets with international success. He died in 1991 of pneumonia, weakened by AIDS.
Farrokh Bulsara was born on September 5, 1946 in Tanzania. Son of expatriate civil servants, he has a younger sister, Kashmira. In 1953, his parents sent him to continue his studies in India. Freddie Mercury is good at school and is passionate about sports and music. He begins taking piano lessons and joins the school choir.
In 1958, Freddie joined the first music group, The Hectics in his high school. The group covers the rock’n’roll pieces of the time, like Elvis Presley. Freddie’s family then had to leave for the United Kingdom in the 1960s. He quickly fell in love with singers such as jimi hendrix, Elvis Presley or John Lennon. He entered the Ealing Art College in London in 1966 and graduated 3 years later.
During his studies, Freddie Mercury meets young men who evolve in a music group called Ibex. He finally followed the group to do some performances and appeared for the first time as a singer on August 23, 1969. A few months later, the group was renamed Wreckage. Freddie then writes the pieces of the group, until his separation for lack of representations.
After having made a quick passage within the group Sour Milk Sea, Freddie dreams of being part of a music group that he has been watching for several years: Smile. Its singer, Tim Staffell, had heard of Freddie’s growing interest in his band, and offered to replace him in 1970. Freddie accepted, seeing his dream come true. He renames the group Queen, and invents a new surname: Freddie Mercury. These are the beginnings of the legendary rock band.
The legendary rock band formed in 1970 with Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor. The following year, John Deacon joined the quartet as bassist. In 1974, the group released a first album, eponymous, Queen. Initially, the style of the group is not unanimous. It was not until 1975, with the album A night at the Opera that the group is propelled to the front of the stage, carried by the tube Bohemain Rhapsody. Queen finds worldwide success thanks to the titles We are the champions and We will rock you.
The success of the group becomes international, Queen brings together a crowd of more than 130,000 people during a concert in Sao Paulo in Brazil. The group connects the tubes: Somebody To Love, I Want To Break Free, Don’t Stop Me Now, A Kind Of Magic… In 1985, Queen performed at Live Aid at Wembley Stadium. Their performance is hailed as the “greatest live performance of all time”. Alongside his career with Queen, Freddie Mercury performed solo from 1985. He notably released the album Barcelona in duet with the Catalan soprano Montserrat Caballé.
In 1987, his doctor announced to Freddie Mercury that he had AIDS. He decided to record his last titles with the group Queen in the early 90s. He made a last public appearance at the Brit Awards on February 20, 1990 and was awarded as the best English group of the 1980s. In his clip I’m Going Slightly Mad, we see him very emaciated. The singer does not communicate about his illness, but the rumor circulates. The group denies. On November 23, 1991, Freddie Mercury is at its worst. His doctor, Gordon Atkinson, therefore decides to announce to the media that the singer has AIDS. He died on November 24, at the age of 45, weakened by pneumonia.
After the death of Freddie Mercury, the remaining members of Queen, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon found the Mercury Phoenix Trust, a charitable organization which fights against AIDS in the world. In 1992, they organized the Freddie Mercury Tributea charity concert to raise funds for AIDS research.
In 1992, Freddie Mercury was awarded for “outstanding contribution to British music” posthumously at the Brit Awards. On November 21, 1996, a statue in memory of Freddie Mercury was inaugurated in Switzerland facing Lake Geneva. The singer and friend of the singer, Montserrat Caballé unveils the sculpture.