“Freddie was a hoarder, he didn’t throw anything away,” said Thomas Williams, a Sotheby’s director who is running an auction of Queen icon Freddie Mercury’s lifetime accumulations. “His possessions give us an extraordinary 360-degree view of the man, from his childhood until his death.” “Freddie Mercury, A World of His Own” is the name of the auction at Sotheby’s, New Bond St, London until September 5.
Among the items on the block: a black lacquered baby grand piano at which Freddie Mercury composed and developed some of Queen’s biggest hits, including “Bohemian Rhapsody.” It is the centerpiece of a sale expected to raise millions.
Almost 30,000 objects, artworks, items of clothing and furniture, photographs, handwritten lyrics and other items are up for auction.
The items include his gold and platinum records to personal Polaroid photographs. Mercury died in 1991 at the age of 45, just 24 hours after he revealed that he had AIDS.
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