The Queen frontman was known to call his 10 cats while on the road — and even reportedly left them everything in his will.
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He was a rock’n’roll icon as the frontman for the now - fabled rock ‘n’ roll band , Queen . ButFreddie Mercuryloved cats almost as much as he loved perform for alive audience .
Freddie Mercury ’s guy , of which he had 10 , were completely different from one another , but all were deeply adored by the Isaac Merrit Singer . He pampered the felines and treated them like his own children , and he even gave them each Christmas endowment every year .
Freddie Mercury’s love of cats is said to have started after his fiancé Mary Austin brought home a pair of cats. The couple named them Tom and Jerry.
Even when he went on circuit , Freddie Mercury ’s hombre were well taken care of and the singer was sure to call home and demand to speak with them .
His love for cat ran so inscrutable that it seep into his art ; he dedicated his 1985 solo record album to his bevy of cats and wrote a Sung dynasty about his " little princess , " or his favorite feline Delilah . The birdsong named was included on Queen ’s last record album , Innuendo .
Indeed , it seems that the iconic Mercury was equally known for his unbelievable voice , cause of death compositions , and flamboyant stage front as he was for his lovemaking of felines .
Freddie Mercury’s Cats Were ‘His Children’
myfairymeddows / TwitterFreddie Mercury and two of the 10 cats he raised at the Garden Lodge .
In the early seventies , Queen and their frontman Freddie Mercury were still relatively nameless names in music . But observe the liberation of their 1973 launching albumPre ordain , they begin to get some traction in the mainstream medicine press , withRolling Stonehailing themas the rude successors to Led Zeppelin ’s heavy alloy throne .
But the release of Queen ’s debut record album would also mark the prison term that Mercury would meet the first of his greatest loves : his cats .
His former fiancé , Mary Austin , was the first to bring home a pair of cats , who the mates nervily nominate Tom and Jerry after the Hanna - Barbera sketch characters of the same name .
After the couple ’s amicable schism , Austin gifted the cradle another cat named Tiffany . finally , Mercury became the proud cat dad of 10 cats , include Delilah , Goliath , Lily , Dorothy , Miko , Romeo , and Oscar .
Though he owned a few properties around the public , the cradle ’s favorite dwelling house remain his Garden Lodge mansion in Kensington , England , where all his pelt - babies stayed while he went aside on tour .
Freddie Mercury ’s cat live a pampered life-style . Their meals consisted of freshly - prepared poulet and fish . Each cat also got its own stocking full of kitty plaything and treats every Christmas .
Jim Hutton , Mercury ’s boyfriend of seven year , wroteabout the vocalizer ’s obsession with his pets in his memoir , Mercury and Me :
" Freddie treat the computerized tomography like his own children . He would constantly fuss over them , and if any of them issue forth to any harm when Freddie was off , Heaven [ help ] us . During the day , the cats had the run of the star sign and grounds , and at night one of us would round them up and add them inside . "
Hutton call up one instance when one of the Arabian tea , a black manly cat named Goliath , went missing .
" Freddie became phrenetic , and in deep desperation , he thrust a beautiful Nipponese hibachi [ grill ] through the window of the guest bedroom , " Hutton wrote .
But Mercury ’s mood rapidly exchange after the khat reared its fuzzed head again . " Freddie was over the moon … for five minutes or more he pour out his aid on the kitten , draw close and stroking him , " Hutton revealed .
" Then , like a mother , Freddie reprimand the cat , shouting and screaming at tiny Goliath for leave Garden Lodge . The dark ball of fur just sat there , heed sedately to Freddie ’s outburst and purring forte . "
Freddie Mercury ’s beloved for his cats was , arguably , the deepest honey he ever feel in his life sentence . During one of his last interviews , Mercury divulged the contents of his will , posit " I ’m leave it all to Mary [ Austin ] and the khat . "
Mercury’s Cats Influenced His Music
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The vocaliser ’s obsession with his feline companions did n’t break at home — Freddie Mercury ’s cats also had an influence on his medicine .
There ’s no good lesson of this furred influence than on 1985’sMr . Bad Guy , which was the " link Your Mother Down " singer ’s debut album . It was unironically give to Freddie Mercury ’s computed tomography .
" This album is dedicated to my cat Jerry — also Tom , Oscar , and Tiffany , and all the guy lovers across the universe — hump everybody else ! " read the track record bill .
Unsurprisingly , Queen fans began sending the rock’n’roll star giving for his hombre after that dedication . Mercury , too , never failed to shower his cats with attention even when he was out .
" He ’d get to a hotel , we ’d dial through and he really would talk to his cats , " wrote Peter Freestone , the Isaac Merrit Singer ’s live - in personal helper , in his bookMister Mercury . " Mary [ Austin ] would hold Tom and Jerry in bend up to the receiver to listen to Freddie talking . This continued throughout the class with [ other ] feline occupant of his houses . "
But out of all his cats , Delilah — a tortoiseshell - colored female person — was undoubtedly his favourite among the Garden Lodge pack .
" Delilah was Freddie ’s favorite and the one he ’d pick up and stroke the most often . When Freddie extend to bed , it was Delilah he brought in with us . She ’d sleep at the foot of the bed , before slip out for a night - sentence prowl , " Hutton wrote .
As Freddie Mercury ’s favourite hombre , Delilah had the decided honor of receive a Song dynasty written for her . His bandmates reportedlyhatedthe vocal — though its subject affair may have been a put up component — but they begrudgingly mollycoddle their frontman in register it anyway .
" Delilah " was featured on Queen ’s 1991 studio apartment albumInnuendo , which turned out to be the last album Mercury recorded . Later that same class , the fabled rocker die out of AIDS - related bronchial pneumonia at the years of 45 .
The love Freddie Mercury had for his cats became a darling factoid among fans long after his passing . Photos of Freddie Mercury ’s Caterpillar being cuddled and scatter upon give us a strong , hazy feeling blood-related to what ’s describe in Delilah ’s song lyrics : " You make me smile when I ’m just about to shout out . You bring me Bob Hope , you make me express joy – and I like it . "
After hear about the many cat of Freddie Mercury , take a look at some more famous pets , like thecelebrity dogsof Carrie Fisher and Frank Sinatra . Then , search some ofhistory ’s biggest music festivals , from Woodstock to Queen ’s fabled execution at lively Aid .
myfairymeddows/TwitterFreddie Mercury and two of the 10 cats he raised at the Garden Lodge.
