Freddie Mercury British Singer (1946–1991)

Early life

Freddie Mercury was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was born on 5 September 1946 in Zanzibar City. Records of his education name St. Peter's Boys School and Ealing Art College, where he studied graphic design until 1969, and also list the University of West London.

Career

Mercury's name is bound up with the band Queen. His membership is recorded as running from 1970 until 1991. Songs listed among his notable works include Bohemian Rhapsody, We Are the Champions, Don't Stop Me Now and Love of My Life. Beside the guitar, he is also recorded as a piano player, and his music is filed under hard rock and glam rock. Columbia Records is among the labels on his releases.

Alongside the band, he built a catalogue under his own name. The discography on record counts 12 albums and 14 singles, issued between 1976 and 2019. The earliest entry is Man from Manhattan, from 1976, and the most recent is the album Never Boring, released in 2019.

His solo singles begin in the mid-1980s. I Was Born to Love You came out in 1985, followed in 1986 by Time and Hold On / A Change Is Gonna Come. The Great Pretender was released as a single in 1987 and Barcelona in the same year, and the album Barcelona followed in 1988. The Golden Boy dates from 1988, while Guide Me Home and How Can I Go On both belong to 1989.

Entries dated after his lifetime or near its end continue the list. The Freddie Mercury Album and an album version of The Great Pretender appeared in 1992, the same year as the single In My Defence. Remixes followed in 1993 and In Nuce in 1995. In 2000 Solo, The Solo Collection and The Video Collection were issued, Lover of Life, Singer of Songs appeared in 2006, and Messenger of the Gods: The Singles Collection in 2016. Never Boring in 2019 is the latest of these.

Mercury has eight screen credits. The earliest is We Will Rock You, dated 1982. Others include Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live in Budapest, from 1987, and Queen at Wembley, from 1990. The two releases of his with the most Wikipedia language editions are Greatest Video Hits 1, from 2002, and Greatest Video Hits 2, from 2003. The most recent title on the list is the 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody.

Recognition

Mercury received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which is the one win recorded for him. One nomination is also on his record.

Personal life

No marriages are recorded for Mercury, and one child is listed, though the child is not named here. Freddie Mercury died on 24 November 1991, and his membership of Queen, which began in 1970, lasted until that year.