28 years since Freddie Mercury started to live forever

The Queen frontman died at home surrounded by just one close friend on Sunday November 24 1991 just hours after releasing a brave statement confirming he was HIV positive.

He had become a recluse in the last two years of his life, secluding himself behind the tall brick walls of his home in west London’s Kensington – picked out specially by his ex-girlfriend Mary Austin.

Having cemented himself as one of rock n’ roll’s biggest, brightest stars in the 1970s and 80s, Freddie – born Frederick Bulsara – found himself under close scrutiny from the more homophobic elements of the press in the last years of his life.

Albeit dying in 1991, he remains as famous, if not even more so, decades later. His music, of course, lives on, and the movie Bohemian Rhapsody raised the profile of the extraordinary performer and the band Queen for an entirely new generation. His mother, Jer, lived another 25 years after the loss of her son and has spoken powerfully about his pride and pain.

Via The Mirror / Express Trailers