25 years Ago died at his home in Kensington, London, by the deterioration of his health due to aids, Freddie Mercury, one of the best and most powerful voices of popular music, which is noted for having contributed to the rock elements of opera, gospel and vaudeville, and that in addition to managed to move to the stage that particular aesthetic.
With just 45 years, the renowned vocalist had managed to burn the scene of the rock world, to the front of Queen, a band that emerged in the early 70′s in the middle of a musical context dominated by hard rock and glam, which had managed to amalgamate both styles, in addition to endow it with new elements that differed from the rest.
Mercury not only made history for her spectacular vocal range and his interpretative quality, but also for their skills in the composition, which led him to create true classics, such as “Bohemian Rapsody”, “Somebody to love”, “Good old fashioned lover boy”, “Love of my life” and “Crazy little thing called love”, among others, that combined naturally to opera, to gospel, ballad, rockabilly and vaudevillian; in a universe in which they lived together in total harmony Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Liza Minelli and Liberace.
In live, the singer is noted for his electrifying performances, of which the argentine public could be witnessed in the summer of 1981, when the band gave a memorable series of concerts in the Estadio Velez Sarsfield, in Mar del Plata, and Rosario, a fact unusual for the time.
At the global level, the legacy and the respect earned by Mercury throughout his career was captured in the concert in his tribute performed at Wembley stadium, in London, in 1992, of the involved figures well different as David Bowie, Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Elton John, Robert Plant, Tommy Iommi, Liza Minelli, Roger Daltrey, George Michael and Annie Lennox, among others.
Born in 1946 in the city of Stone Town, in Zanzibar, under the name of Farrokh Bulsara, to the 18 years had to emigrate to England in the wake of a popular revolt that resulted in the formation of the state of Tanzania.
While he was studying art, he met Tim Staffell, a bass player who, with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, formed the group Smile, who tried to convince him to wear the clothes of the clothing line that was created.
The talks in which the young Freddie tried to convince May and Taylor to implement a mise-en-scene more shocking were the prelude to being invited to join the band, when Staffell decided to get off at the lack of success.
After several auditions, the group hired bassist John Deacon and, at the initiative of Mercury, he adopted the name ?Queen?, a term widely used as a moniker in the circuits to be gay, despite the fact that it focused more on the impact of the term to a position sexual.
In fact, even though Mercury is depicted as a real barrage on the stage, where used costumes that are common in the underworld gay of those years, I was shy to the point of keeping his private life away from the flashes, which, in many cases, was confused by the press as a behavior close to the divismo.
throughout the decade of the 70s, Queen were noted in the rock scene for the perfect musical amalgam forged by its members, with a guitarist and drummer lovers of hard rock, a bassist with a marked taste for pop and singer influenced by the opera, the gospel, and the spectacular staging.
Established as one of the great bands, towards the end of the 70s, the group aggiornó your sound, first to the trendy disco and new wave prevailing in those years, to then succumb in the synthesizers pop, so much in vogue in the years ’80. Despite this, the band never lost its personality, in large part marked by the imprint of Mercury.
Queen had a particular romance with the argentine public, he lived with his visit to the country in 1981, almost as a matter of State.
In those difficult years of military dictatorship, the arrival of this band to the country marked a milestone by being one of the few times you could see a live show of that magnitude.
With an impact similar to that today because each visit of the Rolling Stones, the local media saw to follow the step by step of each one of the members of the band during their stay in the country.
Even among the musiqueros was established as a sort of rivalry between the followers of the Queen, where enrolaban the most refined, and the Kiss, closer to the hard rock.
One of the most important milestones in the career of the group occurred in 1985, when he participated in the massive festival Live Aid, in London, in which he was regarded by critics as one of the best performances of a live band in the history of rock, especially thanks to the spectacular deployment of Mercury, who bewitched the audience with his magnetism, and his artistic gifts.
however, it lacked little for the health of Mercury began to deteriorate in the wake of the aids infected in nights of excesses of drugs and sex, which the singer is instructed to keep to the shade of the public knowledge.
In the midst of rumors rising, in part due to the death of several of his close friends because of this disease, and also some photos from paparazzis where it looked extremely thin, Mercury went ahead with his artistic work, although it was becoming less and less in public.
Finally, on November 23, confirmed through its spokesperson, Roxy Meade, who was a carrier of the HIV virus and called the world to battle against that disease.
A day later, nearly blind, bedridden and virtually unable to speak, Mercury died at his home in Kensington, the same one that is still closer to fans all over the world to leave messages written on the facade.
Paradoxes of fate, that same day, also died of cancer Eric Carr second drummer for Kiss, the band rival Queen in the local imagination.
Just the image of the battalion of musicians who in 1992 joined their voices to sing ?We are the champions? at the end of the concert in his honor at Wembley, while the screens showed pictures of a Freddie with a cape and crown, of queen at their famous performance at Live Aid, to give an account of the immensity of his figure.
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