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An article from September 2022. Is it clear how the Queen singer came to his artist name? At least that’s what the “Freddie Mercury Fanpage” claimed. With more than 50,000 followers on Instagram, it is one of the largest fan pages dedicated to the Queen legend Freddie Mercury.
Finally, with the help of quotes by guitarist Brian May, the operators want to have uncovered the story behind the name change.
During his school days, Farrokh Bulsara, as he was called, was suitable for the nickname Freddie. After the band Queen was founded in 1970, Freddie wanted to change his last name. He wanted to be called someone who was also suitable for rock star. As far as the well -known story, which also addressed the film “Bohemian Rhapsody” from 2018.
According to Brian May, Freddie chose his artist name after the song “My Fairy King”, which was published by Queen in 1973. “Mother Mercury, look what they’ve done to me,” it says. Freddie said Brian that the mother in this song was his own – and that he was planning to change his name in Mercury. At that time, Brian could not say whether Freddie allowed himself fun, because he had flausen very often in his head.
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“The first official document on Freddie, his birth certificate, calls him Farrokh Bulsara, but only during his school days in India he took the name Freddie. After Queen was founded in 1970, Freddie wanted to change his last name in something that was worthy of a rock star …
đź’ˇ • According to Brian May, Freddie chose his stage name from the Queen song “My Fairy King”, which he wrote in 1973. The song says: “Mother Mercury, see what they did to me … I can’t flee, I can’t hide …”. Freddie said Brian that the mother was his own mother in this song and that he intended to change his official name in Mercury. At that time, Brian wondered if he was joke because you could never know whether he was joke or not at Freddie. In this case it was not a joke. “