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Night skies in Japan – from Hokkaido to Tokyo to Okinawa – blaze with the brilliance of “hanabi,” or fireworks, nearly every weekend in August.

0ur arts and media correspondent david sillito has been to take a look. yes, that's a giant moustache outside sotheby�*s sale room. and inside, this, the famous graffitied green door that led to freddie's garden, freddie's record collection, freddie's kitchen. freddie's costumes. there's even freddie's moustache comb. #mama...# and for fans of classics, like bohemian rhapsody, there are on display little clues to how he created his songs. what am i looking at here? well, we're looking at here, this is the earliest surviving draft for bohemian rhapsody. there's the title. yes, yes. but then, ...

Freddie's costumes. there's even freddie's moustache comb. and on and on it goes. there are 30,000 objects. and, for a man who is very private, really, this is more thanjust a collection of stuff. it tells a story — the life of freddie mercury. this is unprecedented. this is an unprecedented moment in our 280—years history. you've got literally everything. we might not have the kitchen sink, but we've got his monogrammed doors from the shower. it's freddie mercury. it had to be big. it had to be special. #mama...# and for fans of classics, like bohemian rhapsody, there are on display littl...

And on and on it goes. #mama...# and for fans of classics, like bohemian rhapsody, there are on display little clues to how he created his songs. what am i looking at here? well, we're looking at here, this is the earliest surviving draft for bohemian rhapsody. yes, it's the lyric sheet of bohemian rhapsody, which began there's the title. yes, yes. but then, if you look underneath, there is a cancelled earlier title, where he had written mongolian rhapsody. so bohemian rhapsody was originally mongolian rhapsody. so it seems. yeah. # but now the party's over.

Outside sotheby�*s sale room. and inside, this, the famous graffitied green door that led to freddie's garden, freddie's record collection, freddie's kitchen. freddie's costumes. there's even freddie's moustache comb. #mama...# and for fans of classics, like bohemian rhapsody, there are on display little clues to how he created his songs. what am i looking at here? well, we're looking at here, this is the earliest surviving draft for bohemian rhapsody. there's the title. yes, yes. but then, if you look underneath, there is a cancelled earlier title, where he had written "mongolian rhapsody"....