singer’s manuscripts Freddy Mercury never before presented in public, such as that of “Bohemian Rhapsody“, are exhibited in New York before auctioning them off in September, announced Thursday the Sotheby’s house. The drafts will be exhibited in the Big Apple until June 8, after which they will be presented in Los Angeles, Hong Kong and finally they will be exhibited in August in Londonahead of its sale in a series of auctions scheduled from August 4 to September 11.
The valuable papers written with pen and pencil, with a letterhead from the defunct airline ‘British Midlands Airways’make up the draft of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ in which it is revealed in 15 pages the different twists that Freddie Mercury considered for this famous success of What in. On this object, Sotheby’s makes an estimate of its value between 1 and 1.5 million dollars.
Among the other drafts of the singer are those of the themes “Don’t Stop Me Now”, “Somebody to Love” and “We Are the Champions”. Such early drafts were “easily lost or discarded,” but the pieces up for auction offer a “fascinating dive into the way Mercury’s songs were developed and composed, while reminding us of their musical complexity and sophistication.” he pointed gabriel heatonManuscripts Specialist at Sotheby’s.
A very curious fact about the famous rhapsody is that despite its fame and the different versions of its creation, the true name that Mercury had thought of for his disruptive theme was never known until now. By transcending the images of the personal notes of the author of “We will rock you” and “Love of my life”in addition to various annotations of some of his most famous songs, it is clear that the musician baptized his legendary creation for the first time as Mongolian Rhapsody”.
Among the other pieces is a red notebook from the early 1970s, certainly one of his earliest lyric compendiums, on whose pages there are also coffee-stained sketches of the logo for the group. A primitive object in the years in which the young farrokh bulsara joined the band Brian May and Roger Taylor, with a newcomer John Deaconto found the rock group that would transform music forever.
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