| He was cremated with it on | Producers begged Freddie to make the rock ballad shorter, but Freddie held his ground |
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| Although they were never lovers, they did experience London nightlife together | He did so by boxing a jade ring into a bigger box, which he put in a bigger box, then a bigger box before presenting it to Austin |
Throughout the early- to mid-1980s, they continued to explore their homosexuality and experiment with drugs.
| Regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and four- | Two of Mercury's songs, "" and "", have also each been voted as the greatest song of all time in major polls by and |
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| The album cover features the Freddie Mercury statue that overlooks Lake Geneva superimposed with Mercury's Duck House lake cabin that he had rented | But because he respected Austin so much and cared for her deeply, Freddie came out to Austin and confided that he was bisexual |
One of Mercury's former bandmates from the Hectics has said "the only music he listened to, and played, was Western pop music".
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