5/10/2002 » Music, Cool

This is delicious: The guy who wrote the UK's favorite rock song of all time is desi.

Yesterday a UK poll voted Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' #1, ahead of the Beatles' 'Imagine.' Freddie Mercury (Farokh Bulsara) was a Parsee from Tanzania, Bombay and Feltham. He was bi and apparently had an outrageous lifestyle:

one party reputedly costing £200,000. On Freddie's forty-first birthday, he hired the exclusive Pykes Hotel in Ibiza for his 500 guests. A DC-9 was also hired to bring his friends in from England, the plane only just made it, landing with only one engine. A huge firework display blazed Freddie's name across the Mediterranean sky, and he was treated to a 20' birthday cake.