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Freddie Mercury's female heir, Mary Austin, recently auctioned off much of her inheritance. I assume she is part of this deal, too.
1 posted on 06/22/2024 1:49:42 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Treading on dead man’s bones.


2 posted on 06/22/2024 1:55:54 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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Never liked Queen.

Also can't stand Van Halen and Guns-N-Roses.

There, I said it.

3 posted on 06/22/2024 2:01:23 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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That talented Camilla. No wonder Charles couldn’t resist.


4 posted on 06/22/2024 2:04:06 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Recovering_Democrat

There really is no accounting for taste as they say.


5 posted on 06/22/2024 2:05:37 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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I have always wondered what makes this group so popular..


6 posted on 06/22/2024 2:09:42 PM PDT by mowowie
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The lead singer of a rock band named Queen was gay.......I swear, that never even occurred to me back in the 80s......šŸ˜


8 posted on 06/22/2024 2:11:44 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Not bad. One billion dollars.

Sony will make it back. No problem.

Disney still owns the North American rights.


9 posted on 06/22/2024 2:14:12 PM PDT by moviefan8
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Theirs was an interesting relationship.

They met when she was 19 and he was 24, they instantly ā€œfell in loveā€ and lived together for many years and were engaged, but never married.

Thinking he was having an affair with another woman, Mary confronted him and learned it wasnā€™t a woman and Freddy eventually told Mary he was bi-sexual, but she never believed that, and she told him he was gay. She went on to have a relationship with a man have two children with him and married another man who she divorced after 5 years.

But even after their breakup, they remained extremely close. She worked for many years for his management co. went on tours with the band and he bought her a house after their ā€œromanticā€ break up. She also stood by him and tried to help him through his years of drug abuse and sexual excess and was with him at his bedside when he died of AIDS.

When he died, he left her half his reported $75 million estate, including the 28-room London mansion in which he passed away and Austin still lives in to this day. (Iā€™m not sure if that is still the case) but she raised her two children in that house and abided by his wish that it wouldnā€™t be turned into a museum and remain a family home.

ā€œAll my lovers ask me why they couldnā€™t replace Mary, but itā€™s simply impossible. The only friend Iā€™ve got is Mary, and I donā€™t want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage.ā€

He allegedly wrote the song ā€œLove of my Lifeā€ to Mary. Although not written by Mercury the song ā€œYou’re My Best Friendā€ seems to sum their relationship up best.


11 posted on 06/22/2024 2:29:26 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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The richest man in the graveyard....


18 posted on 06/22/2024 3:06:29 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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A.I. will reconstruct Freddie Mercury, and there will be new Queen songs.

Will this deal account for that eventuality?


20 posted on 06/22/2024 3:07:31 PM PDT by Bayard
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The vast majority of Queen’s catalog should be in the public domain by now.


36 posted on 06/22/2024 9:53:25 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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One promoter of the group, whom the group left, once said they’d never amount to anything. He’d did not understand or like the music innovations they were making in their music arrangements.


37 posted on 06/23/2024 6:58:11 AM PDT by Wuli
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