Freddie Mercury’s unseen handwritten drafts for Queen’s biggest hits going under hammer
Freddie Mercury’s unseen handwritten working drafts for Queen’s biggest hits are being exhibited and sold at auction. They will be unveiled for the first time on Thursday (01.06.23) at Sotheby’s New York, before being taken to Los Angeles and Hong Kong and the manuscripts will then return to London as part of a month-long exhibition in August prior to their sale in ‘Freddie Mercury: A World of his Own’ in September, nearly 32 years after the singer’s death on 24 November 1991 aged 45. Sotheby’s said: “These sensational pages reveal the genesis of a roll call of Queen songs – most created durin...