Items on display include Mercury's flamboyant stage costumes, handwritten drafts of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and the baby grand piano he used to compose Queen's greatest hits.
, handwritten drafts of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the baby grand piano he used to compose Queen's greatest hits, are going on display in a free exhibition at Sotheby's London ahead of their sale.
"We have here working lyrics for pretty much every song that Freddie Mercury wrote through the 1970s," said Gabriel Heaton, a specialist at the auction house. "We've got extensive working drafts that really showed how songs developed, how they changed, how they took shape in the most wonderful way." A 1941 Wurlitzer jukebox owned by Freddie Mercury on display at Sotheby's on August 03, 2023 in London, England. The private collection of over 1,400 items will be sold at a series of six of auctions between the 6th and the14th September, 2023. Other items were more personal and intimate, including a school book with the singer's name, Fred Bulsara, dating from the 1960s when he had just arrived in the U.K. with his family from Zanzibar.
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