Monday, 16 July 2012

Freddie Mercury - The Liverpool Years

Liverpool has seen its fair share of exotic characters and transient musos.

It's a little known fact that Freddie Mercury (under his real name, Farrokh Bulsara) made his first on-stage debut with Brian May and Roger Taylor at Liverpool's famous: 'The Sink Club' - now known as  The Magnet.  


The original membership card to gain entry to the sink club was by a numbered rubber plug on a chain.


Here is a bootleg recording of Freddie with the short-lived Liverpool band Ibex taken at the The Sink Club.  






There is another Liverpool link:  this one ties the Beatles to Queen.


Rumour has it, that Freddie once lived on Penny Lane. 
It's a popular story that Freddie once lived in Dovedale Towers - now a pub.
If anyone has any images of Freddie in Liverpool i'd love to see them.

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