Tag: queen
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Queen Songs Turned Into Vintage Comic Book Covers By Butcher Billy
Brazilian designer and illustrator Butcher Billy has created a fictional comic series called 'Planet Mercury comics', and you guessed right – we will be seeing a lot of the legendary band Queen's charismatic frontman Freddie Mercury! To make it even more exciting, the artist used excerpts and titles from Queen's songs and created each comic…
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Amazing Images Of Freddie Mercury With His First And Only True Love, Mary Austin
“The only friend I’ve got is Mary and I don’t want anybody else,” Freddie Mercury once said about the ‘love of his life,’ Mary Austin. While the legendary Queen singer’s relationships were always in the media spotlight, including in the recent, wildly popular movie Bohemian Rhapsody, the one that truly mattered probably received the least…
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Images of Freddie Mercury And His Cats, That He Loved And Treated Like His Own Children
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If you’re a cat person, you buy it a nice collar. If you’re a cat rockstar, you dedicate songs to them. And that’s exactly what Freddie Mercury, aka the Ultimate Cat Guy did. His love of felines is said to have begun in the 1970s when Mercury’s girlfriend Mary Austin bought them a pair of…
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Elton John Shares A Touching Story About Freddie Mercury’s Final Days
Following the release of the film Bohemian Rhapsody, a new wave of interest has flooded in about the band Queen and it’s lead singer, Freddie Mercury. The film has been criticised for glossing over a lot of the more difficult parts of Freddie’s life, including his untimely death to AIDS in 1991. His close friend,…
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Photos of Freddie Mercury with His Long-Time Love Jim Hutton Released to the Public
If you’ve watched the recent release of Bohemian Rhapsody, you probably wanted to learn more about Freddie’s partner Jim Hutton who Freddie met towards the end of the movie. Despite what the movie will tell you, Freddie and Jim actually met at a club in 1984 when he offered to buy Jim a drink, and…
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28 Trombonists Perform An Amazing Rendition of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Trombonist Christopher Bill gathered 27 of his talented peers to perform an amazing cover of the iconic Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody“. This brilliant performance took place at the 2018 International Trombone Festival. Scroll down to watch the entire video! [zombify_post]
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RIP Aretha Franklin: Celebrate Her Life With Her Most Powerful Early Performances
Aretha Franklin, whose gospel-rooted singing and bluesy yet expansive delivery earned her the title “the Queen of Soul,” has died, a family statement said Thursday. She was 76. The news has brought tearful tributes from celebrities and fans; lengthy retrospectives of her almost sixty-year career will follow. In a life as rich, troubled, and glamorous…
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Artist Paints World Leaders on the Toilet…
Just when you thought you’d seen it all, Italian artist Cristina Guggeri comes along and blows it out of the water with her latest series called Il Dovere Quotidiano, or “The Daily Duty”. In this series, Guggeri sets out to ‘humanize’ the world’s leaders by imaging what they might look like on the toilet. And she’s…
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Famed Portraits and Paintings Recreated with Found Objects
UK-based artist Jane Perkins produces incredible pieces that recreate classic works of art and portraits of iconic figures using thousands of multicolored found objects. Each of the artist’s creations is a compilation of numerous objects that range in color, size, and texture. She works with anything from buttons and beads to LEGO pieces, shells, plastic…