Freddie Mercury short biography presentation.pptx

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1. LEGENDARY MUSICIAN FROM BRITAIN

2. LEGENDARY MUSICIAN FROM BRITAIN

3. Freddie Mercury He is a British singer and songwriter, record producer, lead singer of the band Queen, an unmatched performer and vocalist, with a vocal palette of four octaves. Mercury is easily the most flamboyant persona in the music industry.

4. Freddie Mercury Mercury is defined by his tendency to take things farther than everyone else. The music, the performances, the partying, and his unmatched ambition to become the greatest. Although he was shy and reserved as a person, everybody had treated him like a rockstar even before he became famous. He had that aura about him, attracting attention.

5. childhood The school principal remembers Mercury being an exemplary student in sports, music, and art. Going to school at the age of seven, helped Mercury to train a sense of independence, as it would for any boarding school kid. Freddie’s large teeth are very prominent in his childhood photographs.

6. First band Queen was far from Mercury’s first band, and he had several of them. First band was called “the Hectics ”, formed when he was only twelve years old. They did rock and roll covers of artists like Little Richard and Cliff Richard. He began calling himself “Freddie Bulsara”, rather than his real name Farrokh Bulsara. Mercury also went around calling boys ‘darling’, which was a very awkward thing for a boy to call other boys.

7. ART From early on, Mercury knew that he wanted to study art. Freddie Mercury finally got what he wanted when he enrolled at Ealing Art College to study graphic design. Mercury drew a lot and was quite good at it. There were lots of pencil sketches, and he loved drawing Jimi Hendrix.

8. music Freddie Mercury was seriously set to become a singer and was actively looking to join a band. Mercury was not a terrific singer in the beginning. He joined a short-lived Liverpool-based rock band called Ibex. In year Freddie Mercury met guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor at a gig. It happened offstage, Mercury was excited and suggested to sing for their band Smile, who he had been a fan of. Nobody took him seriously.

9. music Nobody expected Mercury to be that serious about music. Most friends even tried talking him out of it. Like come on, you are a great artist, why don’t you stick to design? He was having none of it. The boys of Ibex had a nickname for Freddie: they called him “Queen.” Although they called him that in private, while Mercury was developing his vocal skills, his performance gave a show.

10. music There is a legend, which was shown in Hollywood rhapsody, about Freddie's signature stage trick – “microphone without chord”. He’d prance around swinging the microphone chord until the microphone fell out. After failing to reconnect it, he just danced around with the chord, making the best out of his performance.

11. queen Ibex was friends with the band Smile, who Mercury secretly wanted to join. The band Smile was a great band musically, Brian May’s musical prowess could have taken them very far even without Freddie. He is happy that he decided to quit because he is aware that if he did not get out the way, the world would not have Queen. 

12. Crazy stories Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana hung out drinking champagne on an afternoon and ended up in the most famous gay nightclub in South London. Diana was usually quite reserved and shy, but Mercury got her into full mischief mode. And so the Princess and the Queen dressed up and went out clubbing. To her surprise, nobody recognized Diana because Freddie got all the attention.

13. Crazy stories Michael Jackson joined Mercury in the studio and they demoed three tracks for an album of duets. It was supposed to be a glorious collaboration until Jackson brought a llama into the studio. Mercury called up his manager saying  “…you’ve got to get me out of this studio… I’m recording with a llama.” Jackson wasn’t delighted with Mercury either, finding his frequent drug use very disturbing.

14. Solo artist The ambitions of such a ubiquitous man were not fully satisfied by Queen. The first solo effort was a solo studio album “Mr. Bad Guy”. The album came three years after Queen’s unsuccessful pop album “Hot Space”. Mercury, as a solo artist, was problematic to work with. A common phrase thrown around the studio was “It needs to be more rock’n’roll.” “Mr. Bad Guy” matched “Hot Space” on the charts and was widely considered a successful solo effort.

15. Last years Freddie Mercury lived his life to the fullest and had no regrets. Queen began work on the fourteenth studio album  Innuendo . There were lots of record deals tossed around the time, too dull to talk about here. But people who managed and worked with the band slowly began getting tipped off about Mercury’s health. He kept all the details secret and even had his closest friends lie to everybody to avoid making a big fuss or shocking Mercury’s family.

16. Last years When  Innuendo  was released, the band starts to work on their next and final effort.  Made in Heaven  was final studio album. The sessions were depressing, but Freddie Mercury did not get depressed. He drank lots of vodkas and kept positive, asking them to write as much material as they could so he could sing it, and they could finish it after he was gone. He had accepted that he was going to die.

17. Last years During his spare time at his house in the Garden Lodge, Freddie Mercury took up drawing again. He had not done it since Ealing Art College, and it eased him. He tried painting his cat and made a few abstract paintings, Matisse style. Mercury’s stamina began deteriorating. When the band recorded “The Show Must Go On,” Mercury was barely walking. Mercury put all of his energy into it. Mercury spent his last days of his life in bed.