#smash hits 1990 yearbook

Smash Hits (1990 Yearbook): 133/?

Credits to Michael Kane.

September 5: Freddie Mercury

LORD FREDERICK OF MERCURY — HIS STITCH IN ROCK’S TAPESTRY!

[Photo caption: Freddie’s the one at the front with a moustache]

Freddie Mercury was born Clarence Ohio Smedley Jnr. somewhere in England in 1932, but it was not until some time in the 70s, after he met a warm-hearted poodle breeder from Grimsby by the name of Brian May — and the other two blokes of course — that he became the lead singer of a group called Smile. At the time he was working as an aerobics teacher and thus stumbled on a triff gimmick for his group — they should all wear leotards. Freddie renamed the group Queenie, after his granny’s cocker spaniel, and they became a big hit with the kids. Ten years later he grew a moustache and dressed up in a black leather mini skirt, met a portly foreign woman wearing a bedsheet and made some dreadful opera music with his blue suit on, and that’s about it really. Viva Freddie.