Born this day in 1946, Farrokh Bulsara, singer / songwriter with the queen, who scored the UK No.1 1975 single "Bohemian Rhapsody" and more than 40 UK Top 40 Singles with the United States 1980 No. 1 single "Crazy Little Thing Called Love".
There was only one challenge of Freddie Mercury.
Farrokh was born on the small spice island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi Bulsara and Jer, were both Parsi (Persian). His father, Bomi, was a civil servant, working as a cashier in the High Court for the British government.In 1954 at the age of eight, Freddie was shipped to St. Peter School English boarding school in Panchgani, about 50 miles outside Bombay. It was there his friends began to call him Freddie, a name the family also adopted.
