Freddie Mercury private collection to be auctioned
An intimate collection of 1,500 items belonging to Freddie Mercury, including handwritten lyrics and riotous stage costumes, is to be sold at auction.
A highlight of the sale will be Freddie Mercury's handwritten working lyrics to one of Queen's greatest anthems, We Are The Champions, including harmonies and chords, written across nine pages. They are expected to sell for £200,000-300,000. Nineteen-year-old Austin had been out on a date with Queen's guitarist Brian May when she first met Mercury in 1970.Queen in 1973, left to right: John Deacon, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and Brian May
But now Austin has decided to sell the collection, "because I need to put my affairs in order," she explains.
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