Freddie lived his life!

Freddy had a time of his life

This is one of the rare biographies of Freddy Mercury (born Farrukh Bulsara) where people from his childhood are interviewed. Notice how close his sister resembles Freddy (or is it the other way around?) And notice how the infrastructure in Zanzibar and Bombay can still pass off as frolics from Freddy’s past (in the 60s and 70s).

Forget about his sexual orientation, he is a wizard in bringing operatic type of sweet rock music to the world. Thanks to probably his exposure to music from the continents of Africa, Europe as well as the Indian sub-continent. Apperently, he used to enjoy melodious crooning of Asha Bhosle! Being the true musician that he is, like Sudirman Haji Arshad, he continued performing almost till his final stages. This is evidenced by his scarecrow like appearance in the ‘Innuendo’ music videos especially in ‘I am going slightly mad’.

It is interesting to see how well a Farsi boy blended into the British society, hardly giving any inkling to his Indian link, what more about his Farsi origin. One can even say that he is India’s earliest contribution to contemporary music before the works

Do you know that at least 2 of Queen’s songs are banned by RTM (Radio TV Malaysia) – namely ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and ‘Mustafa’. In ‘Mustafa’ the azan is used as part of the song. In ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, Islam is portrayed as a non compassionate religion. In this song, a young poor boy dies after being sentenced to death for murder. At heaven’s gate, he pleads for leniency amongst the angels of different faiths. Most angels feel pity for him. The Moslem angels appear cold and vehemently deny his appeal, “Bismillah, we will never let you go!” Ironically, they play this song over the Malaysian airwaves now but conveniently blanking off the part just like they do vulgar rap song with offensive lyrics. Cynics proclaim that Freddy’s aversion to Islam culminated from his Zoro-Astrorian faith. In the 9^th century, Islamic invaders chased them off their motherland in Persia.

In the mean time, enjoy this one and a half hour documentary of the lead singer of the rock group ‘Queen’, Freddy Mercury a.k.a. Farrukh Bulsara…