Freddie Mercury was a famous music starHe was known for the band QueenLearn 10 facts about the late star As the frontman of the band Queen, he shaped the music of the seventies and eighties.

From George Michael and The Beach Boys to Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin, these are Freddie Mercury's 25 favourite songs of all time.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" was a song long in the making, but it officially kicked into gear in the summer of 1975, when Freddie Mercury began writing it as an operatic piece titled, "Real Life." ...