FREDDIE MERCURY loved another man before Jim Hutton, who he referred to as his "husband". He wrote a classic Queen song for his German lover and they exchanged rings. Freddie even begged him toInside Freddie Mercury's first 'derogatory' meeting with boyfriend Jim Hutton Freddie's live-in PA, Peter Freestone, spent the last 13 years of the iconic singer's life with him at his London mansion. Sadly, Jim Hutton passed away in 2010 at the age of 60 on New Year's Day. While he, like Freddie, suffered from HIV, his death was actually caused by lung cancer. Jim Hutton was one of the most popular people in Freddie Mercury's life, and was a major character in the Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody. Wikimedia Commons From famous pictures of Freddie Mercury onstage to rarely-seen images of him at home, the gallery above captures the iconic reign of the Queen frontman. While Mercury was an extremely extroverted performer, he preferred to keep his personal life out of public view. He was romantically involved with actress Barbara Valentin, DJ
The pictures are also an echo of one of the earliest pictures of Freddie at home in his much more modest Holland Park garden in 1975. In his memoirs Hutton describes the moment: "That summer
Mary Austin and Freddie Mercury met in 1969 when she was 19, and he was 24. Their life-long relationship proved to be one of a kind. Mary grew up in a struggling working-class household in West London, raised by two deaf parents. She dropped out of school when she was 15 and started working various jobs to support herself.
Freddie Mercury and boyfriend Jim Hutton (Image: PH ) The Freddie Mercury: A World Of His Own exhibition includes his prized Yamaha baby grand piano (valued at £2-3million), on which he composed
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