' Queen’s dressing rooms varied in size and style, depending on the venue.

Did Freddie Mercury really take Princess Diana to a London gay pub in the '80s? We had no airs and graces with each other.'Įxcerpts from the book Queen Unseen, written by the band's ex-roadie, Peter Hince, gives detailed insight into life backstage on tour with Queen - and the hard work that went into making sure that behind the scenes was up-to-par for the well-travelled band. We’d known each other a long time and we were almost like family. “He liked those moments of just having a couple of his close friends around.

Watch the final heartbreaking video footage of Freddie Mercury “Freddie was very extrovert onstage, as we all know, but he was very shy in his private life and liked to be private,” Brian May told People in 2017. Yet behind their electric on stage personas and incredible star power, Roger Taylor, Brian May, John Deacon and Freddie Mercury were often on the road, travelling from country to country, based in hotel rooms and frequenting backstage venues - living much of their lives away from the spotlight.įreddie Mercury against the Nagoya Castle while on tour in Japan on April 22, 1975.įreddie Mercury and Roger Taylor relax backstage at the Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium after a show on the Hot Space Japan tour, Nishinomiya, Japan, 24 October 1982.įreddie Mercury gets training from a ballet instructor in Covent Garden, August 1979.įreddie Mercury on Queen's fifth tour of Japan, in an interview photo session for 'Music Life' magazine, on the band's Hot Space Japan tour at a hotel in Fukuoka, Japan, 19 October 1982. The band's unusual name - a mix of sexuality and class - was Freddie Mercury's idea, and speaking to People in 1977, he confirmed: “The whole point was to be pompous and provocative, to prompt speculation and controversy.' See more: Freddie Mercury in private: Rarely seen photos of the star behind closed doors Pop icons at home in rare photos: Freddie, Bowie, Elton, Rod and their outlandish houses

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