It was a moment that May described as “just the biggest thrill.” By the summer they were ready to record it taping began on Augat the famous Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales. Queen first properly rehearsed “Bohemian Rhapsody” at Ridge Farm Studio, in Surrey, in mid-1975, and then spent three weeks honing the song at Penrhos Court in Herefordshire. The archive of 265 photographs mostly dating from the mid-1980s fetched over £88,000.Click to load video The recording of Bohemian Rhapsody Mercury’s most flamboyant stage costumes, Hawaiian shirt and Superman tank top are also finding new homes along with shots by legendary snapper Mick Rock.īrazilian entrepreneur Rafael Reisman, who bought a crown and cloak stage costume ensemble for £635,000 said Mercury “belongs to the world.”Ī collection of mostly unseen personal polaroids shows Mercury as he “celebrates birthdays and Christmases, snuggles with his cats and relishes being surrounded by special objects at home,” Barker said. Mercury “was not interested in having a museum of his life but he loved auctions,” to the point of being a regular at Sotheby’s sales, said Heaton.Īustin believes the artist-who was 45 when he died-would have “loved” this sale, he added. “Mary Austin has lived with the collection and has cared for the collection for more than three decades,” Gabriel Heaton, a books and manuscripts specialist at Sotheby’s, told AFP. The entire collection is being offered for sale by Mary Austin, a close friend and one-time fiancée of Mercury, to whom the singer bequeathed his estate. Works by Chagall, Dali and Picasso that adorned Mercury’s home were among the lots sold. Wednesday’s sale will be followed by two other live auctions and three online sales over the coming days. Other items being sold off at the auction include furniture, clothing, art works and knick-knacks. The door to his Garden Lodge home in west London sold for £412,750, far in excess of the £15,000-25,000 estimate. The auction kicked off with 20 minutes of bidding for the green door to Mercury’s garden on which fans scrawled tributes. “He was kind, generous and funny and it is a tragedy that AIDS took him from the world much too soon,” he added.
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