{"id":6656,"date":"2011-09-07T04:33:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T09:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/?p=6656"},"modified":"2011-09-07T06:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T11:44:16","slug":"happy-birthday-freddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/happy-birthday-freddie\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Freddie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday would have been Freddie Mercury&#8217;s 65th birthday, and this November will mark the 20th anniversary of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1991\/11\/25\/arts\/freddie-mercury-45-lead-singer-of-the-rock-band-queen-is-dead.html\">death<\/a>. Google&#8217;s home page featured a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xe0gIFxYhrk\">Google Doodle tribute<\/a> to the lead vocalist evoking his colorful showmanship and over-the-top persona. It features &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Me Now,&#8221; with many visual references to other Queen classics.<\/p>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Freddie Mercury Google Doodle\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xe0gIFxYhrk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<p><!--more-->YouTube streamed a continuous version of Queen&#8217;s legendary 1986 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vPUqQrMEs2Y\">concert<\/a> at Wembley Stadium. Car designers created a one-off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.automoblog.net\/2011\/09\/05\/lotus-evora-s-honours-queens-freddie-mercury\/\">bespoke Lotus<\/a> in his signature style. In the midst of these celebratory events, The Guardian imagined what the &#8216;tache-twirling Freddie Mercury would be up to today.<\/p>\n\n<p><blockquote>Most likely, though, Freddie would probably be doing now what he did then: twirling that &#8216;tache, showing us his hirsute torso, and surveying all with a wry look that suggested he was about to go and do something a lot more fun and interesting than anything we had planned. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/musicblog\/2011\/sep\/05\/freddie-mercury-65-google-doodle\">Guardian<\/a>)<\/blockquote><\/p>\n\n<p>Mercury was born Farokh Bulsara in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercury-and-queen.com\/zanzibar.htm\">Zanzibar <\/a>and grew up there and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercury-and-queen.com\/india.htm\">India<\/a>, before moving with his family to England where he went on to become one of the greatest rock stars in history before dying of AIDS-related complications in 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday would have been Freddie Mercury&#8217;s 65th birthday, and this November will mark the 20th anniversary of his death. Google&#8217;s home page featured a Google Doodle tribute to the lead vocalist evoking his colorful showmanship and over-the-top persona. It features &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/happy-birthday-freddie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,13,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6695,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}