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"I recall when it was time for Freddie to go back to boarding school, we were getting him ready to go back to the ship and he wanted to give me a parting gift. I picked these lovely hair slides and I said, “I want those.” And he said, “No, you can’t have those. I haven’t got enough– that’s too much money. You can have something else.” And I said, “If I can’t have it, then I don’t want anything.” And I remember him saying, “Oh all right then!” and he bought me those“

- Kashmira Cooke-Bulsara, Freddie Mercury's sister

📸 Zanzibar - Farrokh Bulsara with his sister Kashmira

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

"His hero was Jimi Hendrix there is a photograph of Freddie from 1968 in his bedroom posing in the manner of Hendrix with a borrowed Fender Stratocaster "

- Kashmira Bulsara Cooke (Freddie's sister)

Pic: 1968, UK - Freddie Bulsara posing as Jimi Hendrix

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

London, UK, on October 18th, 2011 - Asian Awards 2011

🔸Freddie Mercury was honoured with The Founders Award 2011 for celebrations of Freddie Mercury's life and outstanding contribution to music.

The Award was presented to Freddie Mercury's family, his mother Jer Bulsara and sister Kashmira Cooke by Queen's Brian May

🔸 INTERVIEWER: You're here for a man who all of us sort of hold in very high esteem, Freddie Mercury, a man who in as sense portrayed an Indian escence in his music, even though he wasn't bearing an Indian name when he was performing. Tell us about it.

Brian May: "Yeah, tell you about it? My impression is, you know, I haven't been in an Asian Awards before. These are the most glamorous awards I've every been to. You guys look so fabulous, and Freddie would have loved it."

Brian May: "I mean Freddie was very glamorous, as you know, and very aware of style and performance and drama and I think, you know, now I can see, now I'm in this atmosphere, I can feel where some of it came from. It's great. I'm really happy to be here, if only to present this award to Freddie's Mum. You know, Freddie's Mum is very precious to us. Jer is such a wonderful lady and she's so full of beans. So much like her son really, you know. She's full of fun and life and a certain little twinkle - a little wicked twinkle in the eye - just very very much like her son"

📸 Pic1: Asian Awards: Caroline Jackson Levy, Kash Cooke, Brian May, Jer Bulsara and Paul Sago

📷 Photo Credit Graham Flack

👉 Source © BrianMay.com

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

By the time Freddie was 18, and with Zanzibar moving towards independence, the Bulsaras decided to leave the island. ‘My dad had a British passport,’ says Kashmira, ‘so it seemed the obvious choice to come to England. When we arrived in Feltham, I was struck by how conspicuous we were. Freddie was very fastidious about his appearance. Whereas he looked neat and tidy, and his hair swept back, everyone else wore their hair long and looked scruffy. I used to walk behind him because I didn’t want people to think I was with him. But he changed his appearance very quickly. Another favourite picture is of him with his hair worn longer, because it’s the Freddie I remember most. He always used to take hours in front of the mirror, looking after his locks. He’d go out a lot, too, and stay out all night. My mum and he used to argue about it constantly. And she was always going on at him to make sure he got a degree, but he was determined to do what he wanted. There was quite a lot of door-slamming, but when Freddie made it, Mum was very proud.

‘I only really got to know him during this period. He would help me with my homework, and I’d pose for him when he was doing his sketches (he studied graphic illustration at Ealing Art College).’

At Ealing, Mercury acquired a reputation for flamboyance, once cutting up his mother’s tablecloths to make a flowing shirt, and by the time he moved to London in the late Sixties, his extravagant taste in clothes suited him perfectly to his job, running a clothes stall in Kensington Market with a young man called Roger Taylor.

- Kashmira Bulsara (Freddie’s sister), extract from interview 11/26/2000 - Mail On Sunday

📸 Pic (screenshot from video) - Farrokh Bulsara, September 1964, UK - Isleworth Polytechnic College

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

🔸By the time Freddie was 18, and with Zanzibar moving towards independence, the Bulsaras decided to leave the island. ‘My dad had a British passport,’ says Kashmira, ‘so it seemed the obvious choice to come to England. When we arrived in Feltham, I was struck by how conspicuous we were. Freddie was very fastidious about his appearance. Whereas he looked neat and tidy, and his hair swept back, everyone else wore their hair long and looked scruffy. I used to walk behind him because I didn’t want people to think I was with him. But he changed his appearance very quickly. Another favourite picture is of him with his hair worn longer, because it’s the Freddie I remember most. He always used to take hours in front of the mirror, looking after his locks. He’d go out a lot, too, and stay out all night. My mum and he used to argue about it constantly. And she was always going on at him to make sure he got a degree, but he was determined to do what he wanted. There was quite a lot of door-slamming, but when Freddie made it, Mum was very proud.

‘I only really got to know him during this period. He would help me with my homework, and I’d pose for him when he was doing his sketches (he studied graphic illustration at Ealing Art College).’

At Ealing, Mercury acquired a reputation for flamboyance, once cutting up his mother’s tablecloths to make a flowing shirt, and by the time he moved to London in the late Sixties, his extravagant taste in clothes suited him perfectly to his job, running a clothes stall in Kensington Market with a young man called Roger Taylor.

- Kashmira Bulsara (Freddie’s sister), extract from interview 11/26/2000 - Mail On Sunday

📸 Pic: London, UK - Freddie Bulsara in late '60s

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Il 24 Febbraio del 1974 i #Queen pubblicavano il singolo Seven Seas Of Rhye, tratto dall'album Queen II. Il brano fa parte di quel ciclo #fantasy a cui #freddiemercury attinse per buona parte delle sue prime composizioni. Non conosciamo esattamente l'origine di queste storie, ma sua sorella #kashmirabulsara ricorda che fin da piccolo suo fratello #farrokh si dilettava ad immaginare il Regno di Rhye. Freddie ha sempre detto di non essere stato un grande amante della lettura, ma credo che in qualche modo le opere di #Tolkien siano entrate nel suo immaginario: lo #hobbit in particolare era una lettura parecchio diffusa quando era ancora un giovane studente #queenforeverblog https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDSr3hIT7a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Oggi #12settembre è il #compleanno di #kashmirabulsara, #sorella di #freddiemercury: #happybirthday #kashmira! #queenforeverblog https://www.instagram.com/p/CiazEtusj5U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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(LINK IN BIO)+++KASHMIRA BULSARA: NON SONO STUPITA DEL SUCCESSO DI BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY+++ #Intervista a #kashmirabulsara la #sorella di #freddiemercury sul #successo di #bohemianrhapsody https://www.instagram.com/p/BvzXirqBUMT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18cd53faqdsd0