| On the 5th September 1946(1946-09-05) in Stone | | | | In April 1970, he joined with guitarist Brian May and |
| Town, Zanzibar, a legend was born. | | | | drummer Roger Taylor, from the band 'Smile', to form |
| That legend would go onto become an idol in the | | | | a band called Queen. Despite disruption in the band |
| music industry and eventually dia of AIDs. | | | | over the name choice, it eventually settled as 'Queen'. |
| On the 5th September 1946(1946-09-05) in Stone | | | | It's confirmed to be around this time that he legally |
| Town, Zanzibar, Farrokh Bulsara was born. As Parsis, | | | | changed his name to Freddie Mercury. |
| the family practiced the Zoroastrian religion, many | | | | He had many early influences including Jimi Hendrix, |
| people were ignorant to his actual background. He had | | | | The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Liza Minnelli. - Freddie |
| one younger sister, Kashmira. Farrokh went to | | | | Mercury: "One of my early inspirations came from |
| St.Peters boarding school for boys in Panchgani where | | | | Cabaret. I absolutely adore Liza Minnelli. The way she |
| he excelled in all classes and several sports, especially | | | | delivers her songs—the sheer energy." |
| boxing. He is rumoured to have had a mean left hook. | | | | Mercury had a recorded range of Four octaves, talking |
| He formed a school boy band 'The Hectics', in which | | | | in a baritone voice but generally singing in more of a |
| he played the Piano, he could even listen to the radio | | | | tanor. |
| and then play it back on his piano. During the 1964 | | | | Mercury always had a strange style to his song |
| Zanzibar Revolution, he and his family fled Zanzibar | | | | writing, using may confusing chords in one song, and |
| and moved to London where he studied art and | | | | then simple chords in the next. In the 'Greatest Hits' |
| graphic design. It was also at St. Peter's where he | | | | album, he wrote 9/17 songs, "Seven Seas of Rhye", |
| began to call himself "Freddie". | | | | "Killer Queen", "Somebody to Love", "Good |
| After having had jobs at Heathrow airport and | | | | Old-Fashioned Lover Boy", "We Are the Champions", |
| Kensington market, Freddie decided to join a band | | | | "Bicycle Race", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Crazy Little |
| called Ibex, which later disbanded, and then a second | | | | Thing Called Love" and "Play the Game". Unbelieveable |
| band called Sour Milk Sea, which also broke up fairly | | | | to many, Mercury actually claimed he struggled to read |
| early. | | | | music. |