Legend Freddie Mercury

You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don’t even believe in astrology. Legend Freddie Mercury

I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend. Freddie Mercury

I’m very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years’ time

I’m just a musical prostitute

I always knew I was a star

Money may not buy happiness

I dress to kill, but tastefully

I have fun with my clothes onstage

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

I want to lead the Victorian life

I’m hopeless with money; I simply spend what I’ve got

We’re a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules

When I’m dead, I want to be remembered as a musician

I designed the Queen crest

It’s unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme

Monument

We were disliked by the press in the early days

The others don’t like my interviews

The lavish presentation appeals to me

Onstage, I am a devil

It destroys the soul to hear that you’re all hype, that you have no talent

In the early days, we just wore black onstage

I’m not into business at all

British music press called us a supermarket hype

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics

I like to be surrounded by splendid things

I guess I’ve always lived the glamorous life of a star

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art

The reason we’re successful? My overall charisma, of course

We spent two years putting our act together

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin

Doing make-up

We’re a bit flashy, but the music’s not one big noise

I might have been killed

If we’re weird onstage, I don’t know what you’d call the Tubes

We’re lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product

What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead!

Parsi born in Zanzibar and grew up there and in India until his mid-teens