The Heartbreaking Life of Freddie Mercury

the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long welcome to watchmojo.com too soon I'll carry on as long as I write music and people want to buy it that's important to me but I mean that's not the be-all and the end-all I mean I just they're very sort of to me happiness happiness is is the most important thing if you like what you're hearing be sure to check out the full song at the link below you'll win it all if you're not afraid to lose this beauty in that of this what will it take to soothe your heart there are few musicians that have made a more significant or lasting impression than Freddie Mercury with his incredible range unconventionally operatic vocal style and refusal to subscribe to norms of masculinity Freddie Mercury was a man who defied convention at every turn when you face an audience of 300,000 people like I saw you in Rio do you get intimidated by the size of that crowd no the bigger the better in everything and alongside his bandmates in Queen he left an enduring musical legacy that continues to resonate with listeners today Freddie Mercury died far too young but even before his fatal diagnosis the Bohemian Rhapsody singer had already faced more than his fair share of challenges mercury struggled in ways that few can imagine everybody was taking drugs so the combination of all those things and the the massive success but you know you start the thing to do anything then lead any kind of life without any question places for all his exuberance while partying and apparent Jawad Aviv Mercury also had demons and inner struggles that he contended with his entire life mercury was born on September 5th 1946 in the British protectorate of Zanzibar his parents bomi and gerbil saara named him Farouk a popular Parsis name in keeping with their ethno-religious background which means happy and fortunate the name be selected for him is Farouk that was his birth name that was the name at that time very fashionable in in the past and I just wanted to name him that at age 7 he began taking piano lessons which would prove important in his musical development that he used to come running after breakfast then the radio was on and then when the music was finished he went to the school again and played that june i am us getting some music lessons he's got in the air for music mercury was sent to boarding school in india when he was eight and though it might be hard to believe he was incredibly shy at the time making matters worse was his substantial overbite which made him the target of much mockery among his peers and earned him the nickname bucky I was born with four additional incisors most face my mouth means more range I'll consider your offer though this would have caused many children to retreat inwards young furrow kabul sara flourished in the boarding school setting by the age of twelve he had already started his first band with schoolmates i'm practicing a lot and I really like every minute of it but I have to tell you about something else Bruce Murray had the idea to form a band and asked me if I wanted to be in it we will call ourselves the hectic it was also around this time that he began going by Freddie and distinguished himself as a performer peers described him as being at once shy and a show-off depending on the situation this is a duality that would follow him throughout his life outwardly exuberant but inwardly insecure fed even recording people darling we were sort of terribly shocked to notice something was not done and not spoken about in public and we were all terribly shocked I mean a boy sings darling to another boy you didn't say to a girl in public in those days damn it so Mercury's childhood was a mostly happy one his life was upended in 1964 when his family was forced to flee Zanzibar out of fear for their safety when a violent revolution broke out it was very frightening it was really frightening and everybody was rushing around and you know what to do exactly it and because we had young children we had to decide to leave the country it would ultimately go on to claimed lives of many Indian and Arab people with some estimates placing the death toll as high as 20,000 thankfully the bull sera family got out in time and relocated to the town of Feltham in Middlesex England if Freddie had the choice he would have been born at the age of about 21 in Felton although tragedy brought the Becerra family to England the move did provide Freddie with opportunities he would have been unlikely to receive back home here he was able to study art in West London zile Worth Polytechnic followed by graphic design at Ealing Art College all the while he continued to develop his music both during his studies and after graduation leaving in the spring of 66 with an A grade a level under his belt mercury was involved in a number of projects but it was when he joined the band smile which would later evolve into queen that his life would change forever well then you'll need someone new I know it is what about me no those teeth mate the story of Queens success has been well documented elsewhere so we're going to focus more specifically on Freddie's personal life as the band rose from up-and-comers to living rock gods Freddie became an icon his onstage flamboyance was generally accepted despite gender norms of the time but did lead to much speculation about his sexuality and by extension homophobia it's vision has got to be a visual theatrics will always be used all the greatest abused it decades after his passing people are still trying to put Mercury's sexuality in a box was he gay was he bisexual the reality is the public confusion over sexual identity is a reflection of the singers own lack of clarity potential okay mercury never gave the press a straight answer when asked about his sexuality letting his actions speak for him nonetheless Freddie's behavior did result in backlash from fans as his style increasingly reflected the fashion of the 80s gay culture American listeners began to turn against the band what do you think gaya not this darling the house some fans went as far as to throw razors onstage encouraging him to shave his gay mustache because he never identified himself as explicitly gay It was as if a portion of the fans sought to sanitize his image the whole publicity from him growing a moustache then he would have done if he committed suicide the thing but given the rampant homophobia of the time it's little wonder that while indulging in all manner of sexual activity and being an overtly sexual being mercury never really explicitly came out as a gay man no song life is real what do you mean by the line love is a roulette wheel are you implying that the more partners you have the more chances you have of contracting something what over the course of his life mercury had a number of notable relationships his earliest and perhaps most enduring love was Mary Austin they lived together for many years and even got engaged but as Mercury's interest in men became more apparent their relationship evolved into a platonic one I don't have that many people to turn to and the only one who were talking about is Mary who was a you know long you know she's been a girlfriend of mine from a long time and even though we're not together right now in legitimate machine i I sort of refer to a lot Freddie took many lovers over the years but few of them are more than a footnote in his story by 1975 however he met radio DJ Paul printer at a bar and the latter became a big part of Freddie's life involving himself with the rock star both personally and as his manager I saw him as a very subversive influence in the worst possible sense I don't see Queens her in when they're in the 60s I won't be with them if they are I hope that I was sleeping what Paul brento was the Freddie was his partner in crime they were lovers and for years seem to have behaved as life partners printers professional influence over Freddie however seemingly drove a wedge between the singer and the band do you want pissing off this is a band discussion printer and Mercury's relationship while largely obscured in mystery was by all accounts of volatile and seemingly toxic one before passing of aids-related illness himself printers sold a story outing Freddie to the tabloids care about you Paul doesn't care about you you don't belong here pretty humble mood around the same time that printer and Mercury parted ways Freddy began a relationship with Jimmy Hutton with whom he lived for the remaining years of his life though he had lovers and friends Mercury's life was one characterised first and foremost by an intense and pervasive sense of loneliness in a handful of candid interviews the singer revealed that he almost always felt alone surely comes a time when you want to share your life with someone yes but nobody wants to share his life with me by his own admission he was prone to falling in love and falling hard and because he so often got his heart broken he learned to close himself off holding back when he felt drawn to someone new before he leaves boarding school the 14-year old Freddy jots in a friend's autographed book modern paintings are like women you can't enjoy them if you try to understand them all the lovers he took in messy relationships he had including the complex one with Mary Austin were attempts to satisfy his greatest unrealized desire to be in a beautiful relationship with someone the more I opened up there the more I get hurt so I mean you know basically what happens is I'm just riddled with scars and I just don't want anymore by his own admission however his self-destructiveness made him difficult to love and so for much of his life Freddie suffered greatly desperately seeking love while burdened with the knowledge that he drove it away because of his iconic status is a party animal and his flamboyant nature people often tend to gloss over his substance abuse but according to Peter freestone who worked for Mercury for over a decade getting the star his cocaine was a regular part of his job though freestone doesn't frame it as an addiction cocaine seemed to be a staple in Freddie's life part of his falling out with Michael Jackson allegedly stemmed from the Queen singer using the drug in Jackson's home you generally can't party for days as mercury did without it damaging your behavior I've been hideous I know that and I deserve your fury I've been conceited selfish we're not performing or otherwise entertaining he was known to be quite shy and drugs were likely an essential tool in helping him come she´ll the final chapter in Freddie Mercury's life is the darkest and most well known about it what aids according to partner Jimmy Hutton mercury was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 but the singer didn't publicly acknowledge it until 1991 just 24 hours before his death up until the very end however even as his health deteriorated mercury continued to pursue his great passion music speaking with Queen guitarist Brian May towards the end of his life he told his bandmate quote write me more write me stuff I want to just sing this and do it and when I'm gone you can finish it off worst of all if you bore me with your sympathy that's just seconds wasted seconds that could be used making music which is all I want to do at the time I have left the great showman eventually became bedridden lost most of his foot and began to lose his eyesight with various friends visiting him around the clock in the last few weeks of his life Freddie Mercury chose to embrace his fate by foregoing any further treatment he died on November 24th 1991 you think you're going to get to heaven no I don't want to hell is much better look at the interesting people that you're gonna meet down there you're gonna be there too you know before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications Freddie left large sums of money to everyone from Jimmy Hutton to a chef and personal driver all the people who made his life a little less lonely the majority of his fortune however he left to Mary Austin the love of his life and longest lasting friend his life really had been his work and I think his joy had been that and I think without it he would have wouldn't have been strong enough to face to the rest of us mercury left an enduring legacy of not only powerful and timeless music but also his fashion sense bold personality and the high bar he said for all performers to follow Freddie Mercury was one-of-a-kind and while his life was difficult and tragically short he continues to inspire countless fans around the world I don't regret any of the things I did I'm just me you know I'm just me [Music] c'est la vie do you agree with our picks let us know in the comments and hey if you're a fan of the song playing right now be sure to check out the music video for it right here dear mother did you want oh this place would be great but nothing was free and you've gotta pay to play

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Length: 14min 15sec (855 seconds)

Published: Fri May 29 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Tragic my ass. He had lived his life the way he wants to.

[u/greengirl74]

I felt it wasnt that factual, basically snippets of the film told in a documentary style. Others may like it though. Thanks for posting.