What Freddie Mercury's Private Life Was Really Like

The heartbreaking request Freddie Mercury asked from his Queen bandmates. The hobby you most likely don't know he had. One of his closest companions speaks out. Onstage, Freddie Mercury was flamboyant and extroverted, but offstage, was a different story.

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Classmates called him 'Bucky' | 0:00
Complicated relationship with race | 1:24
Secretive about his sexuality | 2:26
Lied about his lover | 3:25
Proposed to Mary Austin | 4:21
Jim Hutton was his lover | 5:18
Loved photography | 6:23
May knew the real Mercury | 7:19
Wasn't his first AIDS test | 8:30
Final years | 9:47

[GrungeHQ]

What do you think Freddie would be doing if he was still with us today?

[leesashriber]

Definitely one of the best bands ever. His voice cannot be compared to any other singing voice. There will never be another Freddie. 🕊️🙏❤️

[teri]

I was honored to see Queen in Los Angeles in 1978. Best concert of my life. True performer. Talent beyond measure.

[ikirsikas]

Freddie's voice and personality are unique and recognizable among millions. His work is the music of the century. Queen's phenomenon in music was and remains the unique harmony of their voices, which no one can imitate, because Freddie laid the foundation for it in his work, and this group of fantastic multitalents has become a music classic to this day.

[sreejitnair]

This man has become a symbol of the saying - THE SHOW MUST GO ON.

Legend. Freddie Mercury.R.I.P

[janicefalkner]

They are ALL LEGENDS & AND I LOVE HOW BRIAN, JOHN & ROGER STOOD BY HIM!!! TRUE FRIENDSHIP!!! Doesn’t happen much these days.

[belladonna]

Oh, so sad. I remember when Freddie publicly announced that he had AIDs. The next day his obituary was in the paper. I was shocked. I cut the article from my local paper and saved it in my pantry for years. This was so sad. I've read so many articles about the suffering that Freddie had and how awful this was. His partner Jim also passed away from AIDs a few years later. I lost a childhood friend to AIDs. He did not reveal to me what he had because of how he was treated by his closest friends. This was a terrible time and terrible virus to be afflicted with no hope for the future. Missing Freddie. ❤🌸🌹.

[DarkmanRides]

I thought their music was okay when they first came out but through time I came to appreciate them more and more and realize how truly great they were I think they call that growing up. After being married to my wife for a few years I told her the song that I dedicated to her was my queen.... you're my best friend😉

[flora]

Freddie Mercury was much more than a rock star.
He was a genius, a huge talent.
He was a brave, strong man.
His music is the music of beauty and freedom, eternal.
Freddie Mercury was an educated, intelligent, versatile person with a special charisma.
Freddie was extremely reserved and intimate.
"Don't worry about my life, worry about my music, " he said.
Freddie was a Zoroastrian Persian.
He has been a British subject since birth
He was born into a wealthy, very decent family
He received an excellent education, but as Freddie was very gifted, his soul was very sensitive, and the distance of the boarding school from his home caused Freddie a deep injury.
He could never recover from this.
He was a generous, extremely good man, and a peculiarly interesting complex complicated character
Don't try to decipher Freddie, you don't know.
An eternal secret.

[carlajimenez]

Freddie is/was a beautiful man inside and out and that's what people really need to know ❤

[sandifenandes]

I absolutely love this. Brian May is still an amazing guitarist and human being. RIP Freddie. Queen will always have a huge piece of rock history..

[reneeherr]

His teeth were beautiful the way God made him 😭 and as he got older he was more beautiful 😍 and Freddie your very missed ❤️

[Demithegoddess]

The dude was amazing. I watched the performance he did with a life long super famous Opera Singer . . . I know I'm a queen/freddie fan . . . . but he definitely stole that show, and you can see it on her face that she thought so too. But instead of being annoyed, she was just astounded and in awe. So amazed and just enjoying his performance from up close. It really is something that was amazing. The guy was special in so many ways.

[debbiegann]

There will NEVER be another Freddie or Queen, I still listen to Queen.

[SuzanneBlazinski-hgph]

How can you grad this mans ability to perform, you can't. Freddie Mercury was too intellectual in playing the piano as well as singing. His voice, in alone, was an instrument. No one can ever be compared to this man, ever. In loving memory of a brilliant man. ❤

[markwatters]

There will never be another Freddy. Thank you Queen for everything 👍🇦🇺

[tonyaoshaughnessy]

He was just simply the best 👌 as a singer and as a person with integrity ❤

[bethpitsor]

Freddie and on my playlists. When Queen comes on the people around stop to listen and you can see them remembering, , ,

[d.p.]

This is what eternal life is! Just like Elvis, Marylin and many others. The light you give, if it's genuine, it will shine forever! And you don't need to be known or famous! My dad died in 1981, and I still hear from the people who've met him, praising him for all the good he did to them!

[HappyOne]

Freddie would be producing music. He would be writing compositions behind the scenes. He started the Opera singer and Rock star duet, and he would write music for plays. Miss him.