AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Mary Austin breaks decades of silence on Freddie Mercury in new book of handwritten lyrics
Freddie Mercury's former fiancée and lifelong confidante Mary Austin has published a 318-page book built around the Queen frontman's handwritten lyrics, manuscripts she discovered hidden inside a piano stool at the West London home he left her when he died of AIDS in 1991. Austin, who has rarely spoken publicly about Mercury in the thirty-five […] The post Mary Austin breaks decades of silence on Freddie Mercury in new book of handwritten lyrics appeared first on American Almanac .
Freddie Mercury's former fiancée and lifelong confidante Mary Austin has published a 318-page book built around the Queen frontman's handwritten lyrics, manuscripts she discovered hidden inside a piano stool at the West London home he left her when he died of AIDS in 1991. Austin, who has rarely spoken publicly about Mercury in the thirty-five years since his death, sat for an exclusive interview with USA TODAY from her home in London to discuss *A Life in Lyrics: The Official Creative Legacy of Freddie Mercury*, published by HarperCollins. The book pairs dozens of pages of Mercury's lyrics, written in small, cursive penmanship on British Midland airline notepads, with Austin's own contextualizing text, personal photos, and art…Open