Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London
by Scott Cohen


More than anything else, Freddie Mercury wants to be a legend. The vehicle for the 28 year-old "Kensington poseur" is a rock'n'roll band called Queen, and the meticolous Mercury seems to have the situation neatly in hand. He came up with the band's name, he designed their crest (combining the 星, 星级 signs of its members), and he defines their style.

"The concept of 皇后乐队 is to be regal and majestic," he told the English press early in their career. "Glamour is a part of us and we want to be dandy. We want to shock and be outrageously...

Michael Jackson's 骆驼, 美洲驼 wrecked Freddie Mercury's dreams of recording a hit duet with the King of Pop - because the 皇后乐队 星, 星级 didn't like working in a studio with an overgrown pet.

The tragic Bohemian Rhapsody singer made a friend of Jackson in the early 1980s and the two superstars plotted to work together, but things hit a snag when the Thriller hitmaker insisted on 展示 up to work with his llama.

In a new Dvd expose of Mercury's solo career, the late star's manager Jim 'Miami' 海滩 says, "They got on well except for the fact that I suddenly got a call from Freddie, saying, 'Miami, dear,...