Rossi said of Freddie Mercury: “As everyone was decamping out of Live Aid, Freddie bent me over a desk, in a half-nelson, held me down and I couldn’t move. Fuck, he was strong!” But there was one star ...

His Gibson SJ-200 12-string is the result, and it a heartfelt tribute to the late great Freddie Mercury that’s easy to overlook. May turned heads when he joined Gibson’s family of artists last ...

Tribute concerts to three musical legends of history — Aretha Franklin, Freddie Mercury’s Queen and David Bowie — fill the ...

Sir Brian May says Freddie Mercury is ‘always with him’ but one Queen song in particular always makes him think of his late friend. The rocker — who is now ‘stable’ after recently suffering a stroke — ...

It’s been more than 33 years since Queen, spearheaded by their electric front man Freddie Mercury, charged onto the stage of the 1985 Live Aid concert and performed the set often lauded as the ...

"Bohemian Rhapsody" was a song long in the making, but it officially kicked into gear in the summer of 1975, when Freddie Mercury began writing it as an operatic piece titled, "Real Life." ...

The track, which is the most listened to of the 20th century with a staggering 2.5 billion streams, was written by Freddie Mercury and managed to defy critics despite its nearly six-minute length ...

Freddie Mercury (not “Freddy” Mercury) was the lead singer of Queen bringing his unique style to 1970s and 80s rock. While he never completely came out publicly, he hinted at it in interviews ...