Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury was an amazing singer. He had the best voice of all voices in history. If there were all the best singers in history in one place and I had to choose one winner, I would choose Freddie as #1. Freddie had a hard life, he had Paul Prenter stand in his way and he had AIDS. Freddie tried really hard to fight against AIDS and sadly, he lost. I miss Freddie so much. 20 years after Freddie’s death, Brian May and Roger Taylor weren’t ready to quit yet, so they hired a new lead singer, Adam Lambert. Lambert had a good voice, but, it just can’t replace Freddie’s. John Deacon wasn’t...

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



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