When he wore a customised wedding dress to open a concert The video that accompanied the track from their 1982 album, Hot Space, was way too much for the music broadcaster to handle. Set in a unisex bathhouse, drenched in leather outfits and filled with sweat. Body Language, the music video that MTV banned He even once danced with the Royal Ballet – a prestigious ballet company – for a special gala fundraiser in 1979 at the Royal Opera House. Mercury studied art and design and adored the ballet and opera. Attending a ballet class in London in a sequinned unitard (Colin Davey/Evening Standard/Getty Images) Mercury donned a staggering array of short shorts while on tour. Wearing candy cane-striped shorts and braces combo at a set in Las Vegas (Michael Putland/Getty Images) Three days of black and gold helium balloon-blowing.Īfter finding out he had acquired HIV, he threw the ultimate party to end all parties at Pikes Hotel, Ibiza. About 350 bottles of Moet & Chandon champagne opened in less than an hour. A collapsed cake in the shape of Gaudi’s Sagrada Família. When Freddie Mercury threw himself a 41st birthday party attended by some 700 people, including Kylie Minogue and Boy George (Michael Montfort/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)Īround 232 broken glasses.
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Mercury looked to Monty Python, British TV soap Coronation Street and pantomime for inspiration, but stateside viewers weren’t too impressed, thinking he was promoting “cross-dressing”. His moustache became the ultimate accessory in this dragtastic music video that allegedly proved too much for MTV to handle in 1984.
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Wearing a leather mini-skirt in the I Want To Break Free video “Let’s put it this way: there were times when I was young and green. In December 1974, a New Musical Express reporter asked the singer: “So, how about being bent?” When he gave the sassiest reply to a reporter asking if he’s ‘bent’ (Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) They played the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo for a crowd of just under 15,000 people.
Mercury elected to wear a traditional kimono while the band toured in Japan in 1976. Throwing on a bright and bold kimono in Tokyo Mercury puffed his cigarette in a blasé way, and delivered the one-liner with class.
The interview the frontman gave in 1984 became one for the history books after a reporter asked if he sees himself as “organised” as an artist.