Following Freddie Mercury's death on 24 November 1991 from bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS, the remaining members of Queen ( John Deacon, Brian May and Roger Taylor ) came together with Queen Manager Jim Beach to organise an open air concert to celebrate the life and legacy of Mercury, as well as raise money for AIDS research, and spread awareness about the disease.

* Freddie Mercury's Montreux Memorial Day, annually first week-end of September since 2003.

Famous former resident Freddie Mercury ( born Farokh Bulsara in Zanzibar, 1946 – 1991 ) of rock band Queen was commemorated by a permanent, Hollywood-style granite star in Feltham's town-centre piazza, unveiled on 24 November 2009 ( the eighteenth anniversary of Mercury's death ) by Queen guitarist Brian May, alongside Freddie's mother, Jer Bulsara, and his sister.

The error was trumpeted by some media outlets as " The Bum Note Heard Round The World ", in contrast to Freddie Mercury's powerful, sustained note during the a cappela section of Queen's Wembley set, which was dubbed as " The Note Heard Round The World ".

The current Trustees are: Brian May, Jim Beach, Mary Austin ( Freddie Mercury's longtime friend ) and Roger Taylor.

She sold clothes at Kensington Market ; her stall was next to Freddie Mercury's.

The name " Badguy " is in reference to Freddie Mercury's nickname of Mr. Bad Guy.

On 5 September 2011, Jeff Beck performed the song with May and Taylor in celebration of what would have been Freddie Mercury's 65th Birthday at an event titled ' Freddie For a Day ' held at the Savoy Hotel in London.

He explains on his website's video section " Though some have claimed this video portrays me dancing on Freddie Mercury's grave, actually it's more like we are resurrecting Mr. Mercury for the duration of the song and his grave is the logical starting point.

The pack called " Entertainers ' Tale " was-19p: Freddie Mercury ( photo, Mercury's Magic / P Blake ); 26p: Bobby Moore ( artwork, World Cup / M White ); 44p: Dalek ( photo, Doctor Who / Lord Snowdon ) and 64p: Charlie Chaplin ( artwork, Chaplin's Genius / Ralph Steadman ).

* He admitted on his Real Radio show that he owns Freddie Mercury's leather peaked cap, sold to him by friends of DJ Kenny Everett.

In a publicity quote printed in Hardee's autobiography I Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake, Arthur Smith wrote that Hardee had " led his life as though for the perfect autobiography and now he has paid himself the compliment of writing it.

The Queen song " The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke " from the band's second album was born of Freddie Mercury's appreciation of the work ; it makes direct reference to the painting's characters as detailed in Dadd's poem.

A remastered special edition DVD was released on September 5, 2011 in the UK ( what would have been Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday ), and for the first time included the Friday evening concert in addition to the Saturday night show.

* In 2011, on what would have been Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday, this song was used by Google in their Google Doodle homage to him.

It was issued as a single in the United States on Freddie Mercury's 45th birthday, 5 September 1991, and as double A-side single in the UK three months later on 9 December, in the wake of Mercury's death, with the seminal Queen track " Bohemian Rhapsody ".

After the death of Freddie Mercury, who was also Queen's primary pianist, he took over Mercury's role as such during Queen + Paul Rodgers 2005, 2006 and 2008 tours, playing all piano parts on a Korg Triton keyboard, in addition to all other keyboard parts.

The recording, still available as Jazz at the Philharmonic-the first concert-shows Paul at the top of his game, both in his solid four to the bar comping in the style of Freddie Green and for the originality of his solo lines.

Morgan Fisher went on to play piano on Queen's ' Hot Space ' tour in 1982, and Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor performed backing vocals on the Ian Hunter solo song, " You Nearly Did Me In ".

In 1972, only Koos and Rudi remained in the group, and the rest of the band comprised this: Getty Kaspers ( vocals, in 1976 solo as Getty ), John Gaasbeek ( bass, already in 1964 in the Stora Combo ( later known as Orkest Freddie Golden ), left in 1976 also ), Chris de Wolde ( guitar ) and Ard Weeink ( also until 1976 ).

Mr. Bad Guy is the first solo album from Queen singer Freddie Mercury.

He thought it would fit his solo album, but when the band heard it, John Deacon wrote a bass-line and Freddie Mercury reconstructed the track, thinking it could be a big hit.

Two solo albums, The Double Album ( 2000 ) and The Others ( 2002 ), followed, as well as remixes and productions for Freddie Mercury, Jimmy Somerville, the Pet Shop Boys and U2.

Born in Bloomington, Indiana into a musical family, Helms began performing as a duo with his brother, Freddie, before going on to a successful solo career in country music.

This makes him the first British artist to top the Hot 100 since Freddie Mercury of Queen in 1980, and the first solo artist of Asian descent to do so.

Radiohead records ), Michael Brecker ( Ringorama ), Freddie Mercury ( Queen I ), John Entwistle ( Who By Numbers ), Graham Coxon ( 13 and most solo albums ), Mike Shinoda ( various Linkin Park albums ), Joni Mitchell ( Miles of Aisles ) as well for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ( So Far ), and M. I. A.

It was also around this time Freddie changed his surname to " Mercury ", inspired by the line " Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me ," in the song My Fairy King.

* The song " Lay Down Your Arms " was used by the animated film Freddie the Frog ( 1992 ) starring Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter and Brian Blessed.

The second single from Fashion Nugget, a cover of the Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris song " I Will Survive ", hit number 38 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart.

This band played Williams ' compositions almost exclusively ( the Lennon – McCartney song " Blackbird ," the standard " Poinciana ," and the Freddie Hubbard blues " Birdlike " being the exceptions ) and toured and recorded throughout the remainder of the 1980s and into the early 1990s.

** Barcelona ( Freddie Mercury song ) is a song ( 1987 ) from that album

Queen frontman, Freddie Mercury, sings " My kingdom for a horse " in the song " Lily of the Valley " on the album Sheer Heart Attack ( 1974 ).

He wrote and performed the theme song to the 1970s comedy series Chico and the Man, and played a guest role on that series as the cousin of Chico ( Freddie Prinze ), singer Pepe Fernando.

Music was by Freddie Phillips, and narration and song vocals were provided by Brian Cant.

The song was played live on 20 April 1992 during The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, performed by Robert Plant with Queen.

Gloria Gaynor and producers Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren won the Best Disco Recording award for the song " I Will Survive ".

* " Time " ( Freddie Mercury song ), on Dave Clark's Time: The Album

In alphabetical order, the people listed in the song are: Jeffrey Archer ( politician and novelist ), Fred Astaire, Bobby Ball ( comedian ), Charlie Brown, Tommy Cannon ( comedian ), Billy Corkhill ( soap opera character ), Leslie Crowther ( TV presenter ), " Freddie " Flintstone, Paris Grey ( singer ), Brian Hayes ( broadcaster ), Vince Hilaire ( footballer ), Barry Humphries, The LSO, Kym Mazelle ( singer ), Mork and Mindy, Little Nell, Charlie Parker, Andre Previn, Little Richard, Salman Rushdie, Jean Paul Sartre, The Supremes (" Mary Wilson, Di and Flo "), William Tell, Sir Bufton Tufton, Desmond Tutu, Willy Wonka, Zippy and Bungle ( TV characters ).

The song " The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke ", of Queen's second album Queen II, written by Freddie Mercury, mentions Mab in the part: " Oberon and Titania watched by a Harridan / Mab is the queen and there's a good apothecary man.

* " Bohemian Rhapsody ", a 1975 song written by Freddie Mercury, originally recorded by the band Queen

" to Freddie Slack, the writer of the song.

At the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, the song was co-performed by Queen and guests Joe Elliot and Slash.

Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury encouraged him to keep the line, similar to what happened between John Lennon and Paul McCartney with the line " the movement you need is on your shoulder " from The Beatles ' song " Hey Jude ".

At the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, the song was co-performed by Queen and guests ; Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott and Guns N ' Roses guitarist Slash.

A raucous R & B song recorded with Johnny Otis ' band ( uncredited for contractual reasons ), it was written by white teenagers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, covered four years later by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, and then in turn, more famously, by Elvis Presley.

The song, which was sung by Kenneth Spencer, replaced much of composer Freddie Rich's original instrumental score.

For the film's soundtrack by the rock group Queen, Freddie Mercury composed a song called " Vultan's Theme ".