Jim Hutton, a "handsome and charismatic Irishman," worked as a hairdresser in London before meeting the music icon and becoming his lover. Jim Hutton met the Queen singer in a gay nightclub named Heaven in March 1985. The duo would go on to spend the remaining seven years of Mercury's life together.
What happened to Jim Hutton? Sadly, Jim Hutton passed away in 2010 at the age of 60 on New Year's Day. While he, like Freddie, suffered from HIV, his death was actually caused by lung cancer.
Bohemian Rhapsody: The True Story Behind Freddie Mercury's Relationships. Here's how he met Mary Austin, his first fiancée, and Jim Hutton, his romantic partner of seven years.
Three years after Mercury's passing, Hutton published a book detailing his time with the singer, titled Mercury and Me. In his memoir, Hutton said he worked as Mercury's gardener after moving into the singer's Kensington mansion, and continued working as a hairdresser as well.
Jim Hutton and Freddie Mercury were both private individuals
It wasn't until after Mercury's death and the release of Hutton's memoirs in 1994 that fans were able to get a glimpse into their relationship. The book included many intimate photos of the pair from their many happy years together.
Their relationship went downhill because Hutton resented that he was only treated as one of the live-in servants by Freddie and Mary he treated as if she has been his wife and was jealous of and blamed Mary for that. Hutton then lied about her claiming she kicked him out when she did nothing of the kind.
The guests included the star's bandmates and their wives, as well as Elton John, Mary Austin and Freddie's partner Jim Hutton.
FREDDIE MERCURY died 31 years ago today. While seriously Ill, he shot the video for THESE ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES. Knowing this would be his last time on film, he asked for another take of his last words: "I still love you.”
Freddie Mercury and Mary Austin were so close, that at one stage Freddie asked her to marry him, and he also left her half of his £75 million estate, including the £25 million Georgian mansion in Kensington.
It was doubtless a grand and sweeping flippant comment Freddie would make to Jim but had no intention of ever making a reality. Freddie had always intended only one person to receive the bulk of his estate. He explicitly said so in an interview years before and never changed his mind.
He left one quarter of his future earnings from Queen to his parents and another quarter to his sister. Apart from some minor bequests, everything else went to Mary. But Mary admitted not everyone was happy with this decision: "Some of the fans even told me I was only the keeper of the house.
This story is real. Best Picture nominee Bohemian Rhapsody is a true story based on the life of singer Freddie Mercury. That said, it does take some liberties with the story, simplifying many aspects to keep the story moving and to make it a bit more flashy.
Austin and Mercury were engaged, but she ended their romantic and physical relationship when Mercury came out to her as bisexual after she initially thought he'd been having an affair with another woman.
Death. On June 2, 1979, Hutton died of liver cancer, two days after his 45th birthday, and a month after being diagnosed.
Rami himself has revealed that he is lip-syncing, but it's not just Freddie's voice that we hear. "It is an amalgamation of a few voices," he told the Metro US. "But predominantly it is my hope and the hope of everyone that we will hear as much Freddie as possible. I think that is the goal for all of us."
Despite the strong bond between the pair, Mary Austin did go on to marry artist Cameron Pierce and had two children Richard and James, with Freddie being made the eldest's godfather, and later married her second husband, Nicholas Holford.
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After his death on November 24, 1991, Freddie gave his home, 50 percent of his recording royalties and most of his wealth to Mary Austin, with the remainder going to his parents and sister. Mary was Freddie's closest friend throughout his life, and they were often seen out together before his illness.
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“We thought it would do well in the end, we felt good about it, but we didn't realize it would do that well,” May said in a recent interview on BBC Radio 2's The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. “It's incredible around the world. It's like a billion-dollar movie.”
"Mother Love" is a song by Queen, from the album Made in Heaven, released in 1995 after Freddie Mercury's death in 1991. It was written by Mercury and Brian May. Mercury recorded two out of three verses before becoming too sickly to continue recording, so May recorded the final verse himself later.
Oh, you're not here'." “It was quite difficult," he goes on to say. "You'd have to go away from it sometimes and recover and come back." "But I felt this immense pride and joy in squeezing the last drops out of what Freddie left us.”
Freddie Mercury's Funeral - Dear Friends & Lily Of The Valley Acoustic Guitar By James Rundle - YouTube.
Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS in 1987. He continued to record with Queen, and posthumously featured on their final album, Made in Heaven (1995). In 1991, the day after announcing his diagnosis, he died from complications of the disease, at the age of 45.
Freddie did love Mary but then he also loved Jim. He loved his friends. "Mary was there when he made the transition to being gay and she stood by him. Freddie felt huge guilt more than anything for what he put her through in 1975 when he broke their engagement and told her the truth about himself.
Starting from the second episode in series 4, Freddie is in a relationship with Effy, which becomes troubled when the latter develops psychotic depression. In the penultimate episode of the series, Freddie is murdered by Effy's psychiatrist Dr.