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From fanciful costumes and working drafts of "Bohemian Rhapsody" to ashtrays and art, hundreds of items Freddie Mercury owned go on show in Britain on Friday before being sold next month.The musical manuscripts set for display and sale include 15 pages of working drafts for "Bohemian Rhapsody", and reveal Mercury initially planned to call the hit "Mongolian Rhapsody".
More than 1,400 of Freddie Mercury's personal items, including his flamboyant stage costumes, handwritten drafts of “Bohemian Rhapsody” and the baby grand piano he used to compose Queen's greatest hits, are going on display in a free exhibition at Sotheby's London ahead of their sale. The vast collection of the singer's personal belongings, which had been left to Mercury's close friend Mary Austin, had remained undisturbed in his west London mansion for 30 years since his death in 1991.
From fanciful costumes and working drafts of "Bohemian Rhapsody" to ashtrays and art, hundreds of items Freddie Mercury owned go on show in Britain on Friday before being sold next month.The musical manuscripts set for display and sale include 15 pages of working drafts for "Bohemian Rhapsody", and reveal Mercury initially planned to call the hit "Mongolian Rhapsody".