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Free downloads Bohemian Rhapsody4/2/2024 Mercury’s leather arrow stage jacket, worn for Queen’s first and only appearance on Saturday Night Live on 25th September 1982: £190,500.Freddie's black silk velvet and sequin jacket, worn in the Bohemian Rhapsody promotional video from 1975: £139,700.Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Mercury’s signature crown and cloak ensemble as worn every night in the Magic Tour in 1985, including Queen’s very last live show together at Knebworth that year:£635,000 / $801,560, more than 10 times the low estimate.įreddie Mercury's crown and accompanying cloak, in fake fur, red velvet and rhinestones, made by his friend and costume designer Diana Moseley.Mercury’s lyrics for Somebody to Love (c. The lyrics for We Are The Champions (circa 1977): £317,500.Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby'sĪlso going under the hammer at the first auction: The piano belonging to Freddie Mercury is seen at 'Freddie Mercury: A World Of His Own', a free public exhibition of Freddie Mercury's personal collection at Sotheby's. The price is a record for a composer’s piano. Having been overwhelmed by the response to the exhibition of Mercury's possessions across the last month, Freddie's friend and former partner Mary Austin had decided to offer the piano without a reserve. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby’sĪlso at the sale, a Yamaha Baby Grand piano which was used by Mercury to compose songs like the aforementioned Bo Rhap, Somebody To Love and Don't Stop Me Now, went for a stunning £1,742,000 - a record price for a composer's piano. The handwritten lyrics to ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ are seen during the ‘Freddie Mercury: A World Of His Own’, a free public exhibition of Freddie Mercury’s personal collection at Sotheby’s. The drafts, which were snapped up by an online buyer, were jotted across fifteen pages of British Midland airways notepaper and revealed that the title of the iconic 1975 song could have been "Mongolian Rhapsody" and that one line read "Mama, There’s a war began, I’ve got to leave tonight". The first of six auctions of the late Queen frontman's collection took place on Wednesday 6th September and one particular highlight was the original working lyrics for the classic Bohemian Rhapsody going under the hammer for £1,379,000.
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