....Brian May paid tribute to his late bandmate’s mother with a touching letter posted on his website: “Jer was a warm and devoted Mum to Freddie, and, like Freddie, always had a strong twinkle in the eye. Although she was also devoted to her husband Bomi, and lived in the Zoroastrian faith as a good Parsee, she had an independent spirit and a strong sense of humour.”
“Of course I knew her for over 50 years, and when I first used to go around to Freddie’s parents’ house in Feltham, only a few yards from where I lived, in our student days, Jer was a busy Mum, full of life and optimism,” May continued. “And even then, fiercely proud of her children, Freddie and Kashmira.”
She raised quite a talented musician.
i remember back in early ‘91 some twit entertainment TV bimbo “gossiping” that he had AIDS, and she got slammed for it. I don’t recall if, or when, Mercury himself ever came out with the news.
How the world has changed, and remained exactly the same, at the same time.
I miss hearing Freddie sing. What a talent he was.
We now post when a musicians mother dies? What about cousins, great uncles?
RIP.