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MISCELLANEOUS

This is supposed to be a rather entertaining page of miscellaneous information about Freddie and Freddie… Enjoy:-)!

Here is a nice little cutting I purchased – sadly don’t know from which magazine it is, but it’s amusing, isn’t it :-)?

Freddie Mercury’s Profile:

Name: Farrokh Bomi (information retracted from the film “Untold Story” from Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher) Bulsara

Artist name: Freddie Mercury

Birth date: Thursday, 5^th September1946

Birthplace: Government Hospital in Zanzibar/Tanzania

Ethnic group: Parsee

Nationality: Bi Indian

Faith: Zoroastrian (?) Christian (?)

Parents: Jer (♀) and Bomi (♂) Bulsara

Siblings: Sister Kashmira Bulsara-Cooke, born in 1952 in Zanzibar, married with Roger Cooke, has two children

Last residence: Royal Kensington, London, 1 Logan Place, Garden Lodge

Marital status: single

Profession: musician – lead vocals, keyboards, composer, lyricist

Timbre: baritone (although he often uses falsetto and ‘mixed voice’ in Queen-songs)

Speciality: illustrator and graphic designer

Other bands he was in before Queen: The Hectics (1958 – 1962), Ibex (August 1969 – October 1969), Wreckage (October 1969 – November 1969), Sour Milk Sea (February 1970 – Spring 1970) and Smile

Height: 5ft 9 or 175, 26 cm

Favourite country: Japan, England

Favourite city: London, New York (in the early 80s), Munich (in the mid 80s)

Some of his favourite musicians: Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Prince, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Lionel Ritchie, Montserrat Caballé, Luciano Pavarotti, Elvis Presley, Robert Plant, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Cliff Richard…

Some of his favourite actresses: Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Ava Gardner, Liza Minelli, Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, Greta Garbo…

Favourite movies: “Some Like It Hot”, George Cukor’s “The Women”, “Imitation Of Life” with Lana Turner, black and white movies

Favourite colours: black, yellow, red, pastel colours, white

Favourite writers: Beatrice Potter, Richard Dadd (this information is retracted from ‘Queen File’ – an early Queen magazine, but has to be put in question: Richard Dadd is a Victorian painter and Beatrice Potter is a British writer of children books)

Favourite painters (in his later life): Salvador Dali, Mark Chagall, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Francisco Goya

Favourite drink: champagne (Moёt & Chandon, Louis Roederer Cristal)

Favourite food: spare ribs with onion sauce, chilli con carne, Indian food, Chinese food, spicy food

Favourite perfumes: Armani for men, Monsieur de Givenchy, L’Eau Dynamisant by Clarins, L’Interdit by Givenchy

Favourite bath articles: Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo, soaps by Roger et Gallet (“Simple”), bath oils

Favourite shops: Harrods, Lalique shop, Tiffany, Cartier, Marks and Spencer, Sotheby’s, Christie’s

Favourite chocolate: Godiva Belgian chocolate

Favourite clothing: Calvin Klein underwear, black shirts with Indian patterns, bright floral shirts, shorts, kimonos, comfortable clothes

Pets: cats – Tom, Jerry, Oscar, Tiffany, Delilah, Goliath, Miko, Romeo, Lily, (all in London apart from) Dorothy (in Munich)