Freddie Mercury’s piano was auctioned for a million dollar figure

He Freddie Mercury’s piano was sold this wednesday in London by a millionaire figure. It was as part of an auction organized by Sotheby’s, in which thousands of objects that belonged to the singer also went on sale, such as the manuscript of Queen’s famous hit “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

More than US$2 million were paid for the instrument. The price was ultimately lower than the estimate published by the auction house, which was between 2 and 3 million pounds sterling.

He yamaha piano was bought in 1975 by Mercury and used for compose almost all his songs most famous. He manuscript of 15 pages written in ballpoint pen on sheets bearing the brand name of a now-defunct airline, British Midland Airways, reveal the process of creating this hit, which could have been called “Mongolian Rhapsody”and reached the price of US$1.7 million.

The session began to the rhythm of “We Will Rock You” and the first sale was the Garden Lodge gate, lMercury’s London home, which was covered in fan graffiti and sold for $516,000, which pulverized the initial estimate, which was between 15,000 and 25,000 pounds. Paintings by Chagall, Dali and Picasso that adorned his house, in addition to the last painting that he acquired a month before his death, an oil painting of James Jacques Joseph Tissot.

All items for sale are from Garden Lodge, Mercury’s home in West London and the collection was put up for sale by Mary Austin, a close friend who became Mercury’s fiancée. “Mary Austin has lived with the collection and has cared for it for more than three decades,” Gabriel Heaton, a Sotheby’s specialist in books and manuscripts, told AFP, who also noted that the singer “he was not interested in having a museum of his life, but he loved auctions”, to the point of being a frequent visitor to Sotheby’s sales.

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Also were auctioned off alongside his personal Polaroid photos, his most extravagant stage outfits, including his Hawaiian shirt and Superman tank topand the most select bottles from its cellar, such as some dom Perignonalong with more intimate items such as a personal annotated book of poetry, a mustache comb, and board games, including a scrabblein which Mercury was outstanding.

share of income will be donated to the Mercury Phoenix Trust and the Elton John AIDS Foundation, two organizations involved in the fight against AIDS. Sotheby’s assures that it is the largest collection by volume of a cultural icon to be auctioned since Elton John’s in 1988, when 2,000 lots were sold for a total of 4.8 million pounds.

They censor a Queen song on a children’s platform “because of its explicit title”

The song of Queen “Fat Bottomed Girls”originally published on the album “Jazz”from 1978, was cut from the album version “Greatest Hits” uploaded to Yoto, a music platform for children.

Although the site warns that “the lyrics of some of these songs contain adult themes, including occasional references to violence and drugs”, the song composed by the guitarist Brian May it did not pass the censorship filter due to the explicit nature of its title, warned the English newspaper The Sun when reporting the news.

“Fat Bottomed Girls”whose translation into Spanish is equivalent to “Fat Hips Girls”or even more precisely, “Fat Ass Girls”is a classic of the band led by Freddy Mercury which was part of the successful compilation album published in 1981, uploaded to the Yoto platform after an agreement with the Universal Music Group company.