Freddie Mercury's off-stage wardrobe, 1970s-1980s

Freddie Mercury’s off-stage wardrobe

A yellow nylon bomber jacket with diagonal pockets, yellow knitted cuffs, elasticated waist and white towelling lining, unlabelled, circa late 1970s/early 1980s; a short-sleeved brown top with ribbon drawstring to neck, unlabelled, 1970s; a Hawaiian shirt printed with a retro design of sailing boats in shades of green, yellow and brown, labelled ‘Equipment Fashion Shirts’, 1980s; and pair of bronze/gold-coloured jean-style trousers labelled ‘Sassoon’, 1980s – there is a photograph by Brian May of Freddie wearing an identical top to the brown one included here, but in a pale blue colour, at Ridge Farm Recording Studio, 1975

(qty 4)

See also lot 60, in The Evening Sale, showing Freddie wearing the Hawaiian shirt included in this lot with his ginger cat Oscar in the garden of Garden Lodge.

LITERATURE

‘Queen, The Complete Illustrated Lyrics’, Backbeat Books, 2012, p.27 (illus.)

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