One of the greatest showmen of the twentieth century Freddie Mercury, was a great pretender, a killer queen and a champion of the world with his searing on-stage energy with an unparalleled unique voice. Behind the musician, lyricist’s glamour and the creative force behind one of the most culturally significant and musically diverse bands the world has ever seen, his former fiancée and confidante Mary Austin recollects in A Life in Lyrics, Mercury could wouldn’t countenance the dreary wastelands beyond Zone 1 when buying a house for himself: “He didn’t want anything that felt suburban. It had to be London”.The … Continue reading Freddie’s moustachioed “Castro clone” look