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Freddie Mercury: This was how his cats were called
Queen singer Freddie Mercury was known for his love for animals. Especially with cats, and he had some of them. Now Peter Freestone, who worked for twelve years as a personal assistant Mercury, spoke about the names of the four -legged friends.
Freestone confirmed: The musician had a lot of cats over the years. He even lived with a cat in Germany.
Comic figures and Bible characters
The naming began with the classic inspiration for cat names: it seems as if Mercury had been inspired by the cartoon series “Tom and Jerry”. Freestone remembers that “the originals I know about were Tom and Jerry when Freddie lived with Mary Austin.”
“When he moved to Stafford Terrace, he had Oscar and then Tiffany. They moved with him to the Garden Lodge”, where the cat family “over the years of Goliath, Delilah, Miko, Romeo and Lily were accompanied.” Delilah was recognized in the Queen song of the same name of the “Innuendo” album of 1991.
A cat also accompanied him to Germany. It is no secret that the singer stayed in Munich for a few years, where his trunk hotel recently went bankrupt due to Corona. “Since he was in Munich for a while, he also had a cat there, Dorothy.”
In addition to the names of the cats, Freestone also chatted out a few more secrets. For example, he revealed which plate last on Mercury’s Jukebox and how the artist relaxed after Queen concerts.