Freddie came from a culture in which you are not supposed to love men so you try and conform, even though you are tortured within. It was his life on the road, doing shows, meeting new people and experiencing what it meant to be a rock frontman when Freddie finally realised what he’d been in denial about his whole life: he was attracted to men.įreddie Mercury on stage Former BBC Radio 1 presenter and radio personality Paul Gambaccini said: “The self-realisation process would have been so important to him. In the first six years that Queen was established and started to gain notoriety, Freddie was in a long-term relationship with a woman, Mary Austin. Having graduated from Ealing Art College in the early 70s and just started dabbling in music, Freddie legally changed his last name to Mercury, creating his own identity and deciding how he wanted to present himself to the world, knowing full well that he was meant to do great things even early on in his life.
The more blended and obscure an artist’s cultural and musical heritage nowadays, the more desirable – but things were different in the 1970s. Mercury’s style was an essential part of Queen’s stage presence Born in Stone Town, Zanzibar as Farrokh Bulsara, first-born son of mother Jer and father Bomi, the chances that Freddie Mercury’s life would go in the direction it did were seemingly microscopic.Ĭosmo Hallstrom, a consultant psychiatrist is quoted in Mercury’s biography saying “Zanzibar would have been constraining to a personality like Freddie’s, to someone with a restless spirit.” Had he been coming up as a star today, many might see Mercury’s cultural background as an advantage.
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