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A replica of Freddie Mercury’s iconic cape is set to feature in a new fashion exhibition. The copy of the famous cloak worn by Queen’s late frontman was created by fashion designer Dame Zandra Rhodes, 83, and will go on display at the Salisbury Museum as part the ‘Fashioning Our World’ exhibition, which was co-curated by a group of young fashion fans. Katy England, project manager of the show, told the BBC: “It has been amazing to work with the young people on this exhibition. "We have discovered so many stories of sustainability in the collection, we can't wait for people to be able to see th...
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Freddie Mercury's entire personal possessions made a whopping £40 million ($50.4 million) at auction - setting a record for the highest sale of a collection of its kind. The most expensive item in the 'Freddie Mercury: A World of his Own' sale was the Yamaha Baby Grand Piano the late music legend recorded hits such as 'Bohemian Rhapsody' on, which sold for £1.7 million. Interestingly, the Queen legend's Tiffany Moustache Comb, which had an estimate of £400, went for an eye-watering £152,000. Handwritten working lyrics for 'Bohemian Rhapsody' had a final bid of £1.4 million. And a silver snake ...
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Freddie Mercury's piano has sold for $2.2 million at auction. The instrument he used compose Queen hits including 'Bohemian Rhapsody' went under the hammer at Sotheby's in London this week as part of an auction of the later singer's possessions - with the Yamaha baby grand as the star lot - but despite fetching millions the final price fell short of previous estimates which suggest it could sell for between $2.5 million and $3.8 million. Other items sold off included handwritten lyrics for 'Bohemian Rhapsody' - featuring the tune's original working title of 'Mongolian Rhapsody' - which fetched...
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Freddie Mercury's moustache comb "could go for £50,000" at auction. More than 1,400 items belonging to the former Queen frontman are set to go under the hammer at Sotheby's in September, and Peter Freestone - his former live-in PA - has predicted that his moustache comb could attract a massive bid. Peter told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: "It cost about £90. It was from Tiffany and Co, one of their little gift things. But it could go for £50,000 because they will be paying for the DNA of Freddie." Peter, 68, explained that Freddie - who died in November 1991, aged 45 - actually used to send him...
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Freddie Mercury's grand piano, handwritten song lyrics and extravagant costumes will go on display before being auctioned off next month. More than 1,400 items that once belonged to the Queen singer - who died in 1991 aged 45 - are being auctioned off by Sotheby's London and fans will be able to view the items in a free exhibition. As well as a collection of Japanese silk kimonos and other items of clothing, visitors will get to see Freddie's detailed dinner party seating plans, menus, and invitations, his art collection, numerous cat figurines and even an old school book. Thomas Williams, Sot...
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Cillian Murphy’s role in ‘Oppenheimer’ has sent fedora sales soaring. The ‘Peaky Blinders’ actor, 47, sparked a rise in the popularity of flat caps when he played brutal gangster Thomas Selby in the BBC drama, and has now had the same effect on another style of headgear thanks to his portrayal of the father of the atomic bomb, J Robert Oppenheimer. Retailers are reporting a huge spike in demand for fedoras – as worn by Cillian for almost the entirety of Christopher Nolan’s wartime epic. John Lewis is selling 21 per cent more fedoras than flat caps, and specialist hat seller Herbert Johnson say...
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Princess Diana knew her marriage to King Charles "wasn't going to last", Wayne Sleep has claimed. The 74-year-old dancer struck up a friendship with the late royal - who had sons Prince William, 41, and Prince Harry, 38, with her ex-husband - when he gave her lessons ahead of her secret performance at at the annual Christmas party of the Friends of Covent Garden at the Royal Opera House in 1985, and he recalled how the "shy" princess felt "everything she did seemed to be wrong". He told The Guardian newspaper: “She was very shy. She’d talk about the boys. She wasn’t a party animal, but she lov...
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JoJo Siwa says social media was a "safe space" for her when she came out. The 20-year-old dancer announced to the world that she was pansexual in 2021 and has now explained that using platforms such as Instagram and Tiktok served as a She told E! News: "Just getting social media for me, it actually gave me a safe space when I came out. I knew that even if everyone around me didn't support me that there was gonna be people online that did. And I knew that I was gonna find those people and I was really excited about that. I always told myself it was gonna be easier to come out online than it was...
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Freddie Mercury’s unseen handwritten working drafts for Queen’s biggest hits are being exhibited and sold at auction. They will be unveiled for the first time on Thursday (01.06.23) at Sotheby’s New York, before being taken to Los Angeles and Hong Kong and the manuscripts will then return to London as part of a month-long exhibition in August prior to their sale in ‘Freddie Mercury: A World of his Own’ in September, nearly 32 years after the singer’s death on 24 November 1991 aged 45. Sotheby’s said: “These sensational pages reveal the genesis of a roll call of Queen songs – most created durin...
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Kate Nash is planning to have Queen’s ‘Somebody to Love’ played at her funeral. The 35-year-old ‘Foundations’ singer admitted she wanted the 1976 track, written by Queen’s late lead singer Freddie Mercury, at her final farewell as she thinks it will cheer up mourners. She told NME when asked to name her funeral song: “It would have to be a Queen song – ‘Don’t Stop me Now’ would be really funny, but I think ‘Somebody to Love’ would be the perfect song for my funeral. “It’s gonna make people happy and there’s no one better than Freddie. It makes everyone feel the same way as well, so I feel like...
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