Freddie Mercury
Fox Photos, Getty Images To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Queen's 'We Will Rock You' musical in London, the band is bringing back Freddie Mercury. The late singer will appear via hologram during next week's run of shows at the Dominion Theatre.
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The FW Freddie Mercury of Queen and Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead are among the celebrities to endure (or benefit from, depending on your perspective) the "Mustache Eyebrow" treatment from the FW.
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Phil Dent / Dave Hogan, Getty Images Late Queen singer Freddie Mercury was known for his flamboyant onstage persona, which included some pretty wild outfits. Actor Sacha Baron Cohen's character Borat is known for, well ... all kinds of wild ridiculousness. Put them together and what do you get? Well, a movie about Freddie Mercury starring Sacha Baron Cohen, for one.
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Freddie Mercury, Getty Imges It was 20 years ago today (Nov. 24) that rock 'n' roll tragically lost one of its finest frontman of all time when Freddie Mercury passed away at the age of 45. The Queen singer died of bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS less than one day after finally publicly acknowledging he had the disease.
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If there were any doubts, Queen certainly proved this year that they know how to throw the ultimate royal party. Celebrating their 40th anniversary as a group, the band recognized the milestone with a flurry of releases and events, not the least of which was a complete overhaul and expansion of their recorded output. The new reissues offer a fresh viewpoint on the band’s classic work, and on the 20th anniversary of the passing of iconic frontman Freddie Mercury, we’re taking a look at 10 of the best Queen albums:
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Dave Hogan/Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images Film producer Graham King says he's still planning on filming a biopic about Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in 2012, and Sacha Baron Cohen is still planning on playing the lead role. It'd be a rare serious role for Cohen, best known for starring in films like 'Borat (2006)' and 'Bruno (2009).'
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Dave Hogan, Getty Images Could you picture Freddie Mercury tearing through a blistering instrumental version of the British national anthem 'God Save the Queen' (not the Sex Pistols song)? It may have happened -- if the late Queen frontman fulfilled his early musical dreams of being a "guitarist like his hero, Jimi Hendrix,'' as Lesley-Ann Jones, author of 'Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography,' tells The Sydney Morning Herald. "But he realized he'd never have the same natural ability as Hendrix. Freddie was a piano player. That was the instrument he composed on.''
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Dave Hogan, Getty Images (both) Shortly after the tragic death of Michael Jackson in 2009, Queen's Brian May revealed that the King of Pop had befriended late singer Freddie Mercury and that the two even recorded music together before Mercury's own death in 1991. Those recordings never have surfaced, but thanks to a new mash-up by a DJ named Mighty Mike, a reasonable approximation of what MJ and FM playing together may have sounded like is now available.
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