Freddie Mercury was notoriously private. It has become a near-cliché to note that, counter to his ostentatious showbiz persona, he was reserved, modest, perhaps even shy. He felt acutely that he could never match up, as a man, to the monster that was his alter-ego, and this greatly contributed to the policies that would dictate his career – few interviews, no candidness, and certainly no desire to provide any kind of justification for himself: there was no “coming out” for a regular on London’s gay scene, no reference that he was anything other than white British, a staunch refusal to … Continue reading Selling Freddie Mercury