In a 1987 interview, Mercury told journalist David Wigg he had no fears of becoming a lonely, rich 70-year-old.
“I’ve lived a full life and if I’m dead tomorrow, I don’t give a damn. I really have done it all,†he said.
Born Farrokh Bulsara on September 5, 1946 to a Parsi Indian family living on the East African spice island of Zanzibar and educated at an English-style boarding school in India, the shy teenager arrived in London when his family fled the 1964 Zanzibar revolution.
The classic image of Mercury is him in his 1986 touring costume, moustachioed and with one fist raised to the sky, a pose captured in the statue of him in Montreux on the Swiss shores of Lake Geneva.
When they felt able, his three bandmates painstakingly produced full tracks from scraps of vocals an ailing Mercury had recorded there in 1991, in precious hours when he could muster the strength.
Once he could no longer record, Mercury decided to come off his medication.
The subsequent album, “Made In Heavenâ€, released in 1995, is one of Queen’s best sellers.
Facing up to life without Mercury was tough.
May plunged into severe depression, having also lost his father and his marriage and contemplated suicide.
Like May, Taylor produced two solo albums in the 1990s, but despite their efforts to move on from Queen, they learned to embrace their legacy.
Bassist John Deacon retired in 1997 and has vanished from the public eye, though May and Taylor have his blessing to carry on.
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