Freddie Mercury remains in the imagination and collective consciousness as one of the most interesting and charismatic personalities of music. His art has made people talk about himself as well as his life, his excesses and his loves. The press and the media have always tried to have access to the frontman’s most hidden and hidden secrets Queen. But it is also to tell a lot of the background Brian May in his photo book Queen in 3D, in which he reveals the first person he fell in love with Freddie Mercury.
BRIAN MAY, THIS IS WHAT FREDDIE MERCURY WAS REALLY
To tell many unpublished facts and many truths few notes on Freddie Mercury is his own band mate, Brian May. In 2017 the guitarist of Queen he has in fact published his photo book entitled Queen in 3D. A collection of shots taken by May during the past years alongside the singer, as well as a Roger Taylor e John Deacon.
Through his photos – but also the stories that those shots tell – Brian May got to show a Freddie Mercury multi faceted and multifaceted. A brilliant artist but also a very reserved and introverted man. “A man full of contradictions, outgoing and shy, overwhelming and sensitive” the current member of the Queen + Adam Lambert.
FREDDIE MERCURY, BRIAN MAY’S BIGGER REPLACEMENT ON HIS DEATH
In the interview following the publication of the photo book Queen in 3D – and also reported by HuffPost – Brian May spoke in depth of Freddie Mercury. Of his being full of hidden sides, a character on stage and a completely different person in real life. But the historical guitarist of the Queen he also revealed what his biggest regret is still about the singer’s death. It disappeared, as is known, on 24 November 1991 for pneumonia made fatal by theAIDS which he learned about in 1987.
“If only he got sick a little later he would have had access to the cocktail of drugs thanks to which AIDS is no longer a death sentence. – he says Brian May – maybe he would have saved himself “.
QUEEN, FREDDIE MERCURY’S ANNOUNCEMENT ON HIS HOMOSEXUALITY
Freddie Mercury he certainly left an unbridgeable void with his death. As much in music as in the heart of his dearest affections. “Brilliant, unpredictable and extraordinary” continue to define it Brian May, who points out how he was born to be a rock star. The singer of Queen he was a simple, brilliant but very direct person. And May learned it well, in the long years spent beside him.
“His ads began with “Well, I assume you know …” – said the guitarist to Sunday Times – so it was that at some point, when it was already clear that he was gay, he said “I assume you know that there has been some change in my private life”. Brian May it obviously refers to the moment Mercury confessed his homosexuality. Despite the singer of Queen had revealed to his bandmates that he was gay, the strongest relationship remained that with the first person with whom he had truly fallen in love. Or Mary Austin. “Beyond his homosexuality, Freddie called her the love of his life. They were very in tune “ May have to say about it.
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