Among the items up for auction are Freddie Mercury’s piano and stage outfits.
Brian May says he will not be following the ongoing auction of Freddie Mercury’s personal belongings. For him and the late Queen singer’s closest friends and family, it was “too sad” to watch.
May made this known via an Instagram post, accompanied by a picture of Mercury playing one of his guitars. “It’s inevitable to think so much about Freddie on these strange days,” the caption says. “I’m sure seeing Freddie’s fingers dancing across my homemade guitar didn’t seem that important to me when this photo was taken. Now it invokes waves of affection and good memories. He will be missed so much.”
The guitarist added: “Tomorrow, as I speak passionately to Welsh farmers about cows and badgers and bovine tuberculosis, Freddie’s most intimate personal belongings and writings, which were part of what we shared over so many years, will go under the hammer, go to the highest bidder and disappear forever. I can’t look. It’s too sad for us, his closest friends and family.”
In total, just under 1,500 items from Mercury’s personal possessions will be auctioned. This includes his piano, several stage outfits and early handwritten drafts of the lyrics for “Killer Queen”, “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Somebody To Love” and “We Are The Champions”.