You may have heard about Sotheby’s recent auction of Freddie Mercury’s personal possessions. Well, they sold for very close to £40 million ($49,623,000). Most items sold for well over their listed estimates. One of those items was his famous silk waistcoat which is covered in hand painted portraits of his six cats, one of …
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Freddie Mercury with Oscar in one of the final pictures of him This is the story of one of the last known photos of Freddie Mercury in his garden with his cat Oscar. Freddie Mercury, lead singer for Queen, loved cats and he adopted most of them from rescue centres. One devout fan believes …
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Here is a full treatise on Delilah, Freddie Mercury’s best known cat. We know that Freddie Mercury loved cats. It is said by The Washington Post said that he lived with 10 cats throughout his lifetime and that his first cats were Tom and Jerry. I have found photographs of eight of his cats …
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For a website about cats this is a day to remember one of the world’s best known cat lovers, Freddie Mercury, who died aged 45 from complications of AIDS on 24 November 1991. He died at his home in Kensington, London which was packed full of antiques according to the man who continues to …
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Bohemian Rhapsody, the film, is doing great at the box office. Some critics say that the script sucks and is too wooden. The Times (UK newspaper) gave the film a three star rating but it is doing very well because of Freddie (taking $50m over the weekend) – and his cats! Freddie is a …
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Freddie Mercury loved cats so the words he used are literal. For men and women it probably meant sex. For cats it meant company, specifically a calico cat whose name was Delilah, who slept at the foot of the bed. That’s my interpretation. I feel sure he was referring to Delilah (and other cats …
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