NAME: Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) (Freddie Bulsara)

BIRTH DATE/LOCATION:
September 5, 1946, Zanzibar

DEATH DATE/LOCATION:
November 24, 1991, London, England


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  • IDENTIFICATION AND BIO:
    Rock Singer/Songwriter, Keyboardist, Producer

    Leader of the band Queen

    WORKS:

    SONGS
    see BMI website for names of co-writers

    Ali
    All God's People
    Barcelona
    Bicycle Race
    Bijou
    Blurred Vision
    Body Language
    Bohemian Rhapsody
    Breakthru
    Bring Back That Leroy Brown
    Champions
    Chinese Torture
    Cool Cat
    Crazy Little Thing Called Love
    Delilah
    Don't Stop Me Now
    Don't Try So Hard
    Don't Try Suicide
    Ensueno
    Exercises In Free Love
    Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
    Fallen Priest
    Flick Of The Wrist
    Foolin' Around
    Football Fight
    Friends Will Be Friends
    Funny How Love Is
    Gazelle
    Get Down, Make Love
    God Is Heavy
    Golden Boy
    Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
    Great King Rat
    Green
    Guide Me Home
    Hang On In There
    Have A Nice Day
    Headlong
    Hijack My Heart
    Hitman
    Hold On
    Holding On
    How Can I Go On
    I Can't Dance
    I Can't Live Without You
    I'm Going Slightly Mad
    I Want It All
    I Was Born To Love
    Ice Ice Baby
    Impromptu
    In The Lap Of The Gods
    Innuendo
    Invisible Man
    Is This The World We Created
    It's A Beautiful Day
    It's A Hard Life
    It's Good To Be The King
    It's So You
    Jealousy
    Jesus
    Juegale Apuestale
    Keep Passing The Open Windows
    Keep Smilin'
    Khashoggi's Ship
    Killer Queen
    Kiss
    La Japonaise
    Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
    Let Me Entertain You
    Let Me Live
    Let's Turn It On
    Liar
    Life Is Real
    Lily Of The Valley
    Living On My Own
    Lost Opportunity
    Love Kills
    Love Makin' Love
    Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow
    Made In Heaven
    Man Made Paradise
    Man On The Prowl
    March Of The Black Queen
    Millionaire Waltz
    Ming's Theme
    Miracle
    Money Can't Buy Happiness
    Mother Love
    Mr. Bad Guy
    Mustapha
    My Baby Loves Me
    My Fairy King
    My Life Has Been Saved
    My Love Is Dangerous
    My Melancholy Blues
    Nevermore
    New York
    Ogre Battle
    One Vision
    Overture
    Overture Piccante
    Pain Is So Close To Pleasure
    Party
    Play The Game
    Princess Of The Universe
    Rachmaninov's Revenge
    Rain Must Fall
    Ride The Wild Wind
    Ring
    Rock In Rio Blues
    Scandal
    Seaside Rendezvous
    Seven Seas of Rhye
    She Blows Hot And Cold
    Show Must Go On
    Somebody To Love
    Soul Brother
    Staying Power
    Stop All The Fighting
    There Must Be More To Life Than This
    These Are The Days Of Our Lives
    Track 13
    Under Pressure
    Vultan's Theme
    Was It All Worth It
    We Are The Champions
    When This Old Tired Body Wants
    Winter's Tale
    Yeah
    Yeah Yeah Yeah
    Yellow Breezes
    You Don't Fool Me
    You Take My Breath Away
    Your Kind Of Lover

    UNCOMPLETED WORKS:
    Unknown

    WRITINGS:
    Unknown

    DISCOGRAPHY:
    I Can Hear Music — EMI (1973)
    Freddie Mercury, piano
    Brian May, guitar
    Roger Taylor, percussion

    Queen (1973)
        Keep Yourself Alive (May)
        Doing All Right (May/Staffel)
        Great King Rat (Mercury)
        My Fairy King (Mercury)
        Liar (Mercury)
        The Night Comes Down (May)
        Modern Times Rock & Roll (Taylor)
        Son And Daughter (May)
        Jesus (Mercury)
        Seven Seas of Rhye (Mercury)
        Mad The Swine (Mercury)
        Keep Yourself Alive (May)

    Queen II (1974)
        Procession
        Father To Son (May)
        White Queen (As It Began) (May)
        Some Day One Day (May)
        The Loser In The End (Taylor)
        Ogre Battle (Mercury)
        Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (Mercury)
        Nevermore (Mercury)
        The March Of The Black Queen (Mercury)
        Funny How Love Is (Mercury)
        See What A Fool I've Been (May)
        Ogre Battle (remix) (Mercury)
        Seven Seas of Rhye (remix) (Mercury)

    Queen: Sheer Heart Attack (1974)
        Brighton Rock (May)
        Killer Queen (Mercury)
        Tenement Funster (Taylor)
        Flick Of The Wrist (Mercury)
        Lily Of The Valley (Mercury)
        Now I'm Here (May)
        In The Lap Of The Gods (Mercury)
        Stone Cold Crazy (Deacon/May/Mercury/Taylor)
        Dear Friends (May)
        Misfire (Deacon)
        Bring Back That Leroy Brown (Mercury)
        She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettoes) (May)
        In The Lap Of The Gods Revisited (Mercury)
        Stone Cold Crazy [1991 bonus remix by Michael Wagener]

    Queen: Night at the Opera (1975)
        Death On Two Legs (Dedicated to…)
        Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon (Mercury/Queen)
        I'm In Love With My Car (Queen/Taylor)
        You're My Best Friend (Deacon/Queen)
        '39 (Queen)
        Sweet Lady (May/Queen)
        Seaside Rendezvous (Mercury/Queen)
        Prophet's Song (Queen)
        Love Of My Life
        Good Company (May/Queen)
        Bohemian Rhapsody (Mercury/Queen)
        God Save The Queen (Queen)

    Queen: Day at the Races (1976)
        Tie Your Mother Down (May)
        You Take My Breath Away (Mercury)
        Long Away (May)
        The Millionaire Waltz (Mercury)
        You And I (Deacon)
        Somebody To Love (Mercury)
        White Man (May)
        Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy (Mercury)
        Drowse (Taylor)
        Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) (May)

    Queen: News Of The World (1977)
        We Will Rock You (May)
        We Are The Champions (Mercury)
        Sheer Heart Attack (Taylor)
        All Dead, All Dead (May)
        Spread Your Wings (Deacon)
        Fight From The Inside (Taylor)
        Get Down, Make Love (Mercury)
        Sleeping On The Sidewalk (May)
        Who Needs You (Deacon)
        It's Late (May)
        My Melancholy Blues (Mercury)

    Queen: Jazz (1978)
        Fat Bottomed Girls (May)
        Jealousy (Mercury)
        Bicycle Race (Mercury)
        If You Can't Beat Them (Deacon)
        Let Me Entertain You (Mercury)
        Dead On Time (May)
        In Only Seven Days (Deacon)
        Dreamer's Ball (May)
        Fun It (Taylor)
        Leaving Home Ain't Easy (May)
        Don't Stop Me Now (Mercury)
        More Of The Jazz (Taylor)

    Mr. Bad Guy (solo album) — Columbia (1985)
        Let's Turn It On
        Made In Heaven
        I Was Born To Love You
        Foolin' Around
        Your Kind Of Lover
        Mr. Bad Guy
        Man Made Paradise
        There Must Be More To Life Than This
        Living On My Own
        My Love Is Dangerous
        Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow
    All songs by Freddie Mercury.

    Barcelona (Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe) — Hollywood (1988)
        Barcelona (Mercury/Moran)
        La Japonaise (Mercury/Moran)
        The Fallen Priest (Mercury/Moran/Rice)
        Ensueno (Caballe/Mercury/Moran)
        The Golden Boy (Mercury/Moran/Rice)
        Guide Me Home (Mercury/Moran)
        How Can I Go On (Mercury/Moran)
        Overture Piccante (Mercury/Moran)

    BIBLIOGRAPHY:

    • The Show Must Go On: The Life of Freddie Mercury by Rick Sky (HarperCollins, 1992).
    • A Kind of Magic: A Tribute to Freddie Mercury by Ross Clarke.
    • Mercury and Me by Jim Hutton with Tim Wapshott (Bloomsbury Publications Ltd, 1994).
    • "Mercury, Freddie," The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (3rd edition), compiled and edited by Colin Larkin (Muze UK, 1998).

    PERFORMING RIGHTS AFFILIATION:
    BMI (as Freddie Bulsara)

    RESOURCES:
    Queen: The Official Freddie Mercury Site
    http://queen-fip.com/fm-disc.html

    MUSICAL EXECUTOR:
    Unknown

    OTHER CONTACTS:
    Unknown

    ARCHIVES:
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