Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury's death represented an important event in the history of AIDS.[65] In the spring of 1992, the remaining members of Queen founded The Mercury Phoenix Trust and organised The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness.[66] The Mercury Phoenix Trust has since raised millions of pounds for various AIDS charities. The tribute concert, which took place at Wembley Stadium for an audience of 72,000, featured a wide variety of guests including Robert Plant, Extreme, Elton John, Metallica, David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Tony Iommi, Guns N' Roses, Elizabeth Taylor, George Michael, Def Leppard and Liza Minnelli. The concert was broadcast live to 76 countries and had an estimated viewing audience of 1 billion.[67]
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Discography
- See also: Queen discography
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Instruments used by Mercury
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Notes
| a) ^ | On Mercury's birth certificate,[5] his parents defined themselves with "Nationality: British Indian" and "Race: Parsi." The Parsis are an ethnic group of the Indian subcontinent who follow Zoroastrianism. |
| b) ^ | The Bulsara family gets its name from Bulsar, a city and district that is now in the Indian state of Gujarat and is today officially known as Valsad. In the 17th century, Bulsar was one of the five centres of the Zoroastrian religion (the other four were also in what is today Gujarat) and consequently "Bulsara" is a relatively common name amongst Zoroastrians. |
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- ^ a b "Linda B" 2000.
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- ^ Bret 1996, p. 179.
- ^ Biography Channel 2007.
- ^ a b Wigg 2000.
- ^ http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0272620/
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- ^ Bret 1996, p. 20.
- ^ a b BBC News 2006.
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- ^ a b Urban <not dated>.
- ^ BBC News 2002.
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- ^ Brown 1992.
- ^ Bishton 2004
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- ^ ABC Television 2007.
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| NAME | Mercury, Freddie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bulsara, Farrokh Bomi(real name) |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British South Asian rock musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zanzibar |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1991 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Kensington, London, England |
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