Freddie Mercury’s 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow is to be sold off next month at an RM Sotheby’s London auction. Queen’s buoyant frontman had a fondness for luxe cars, which included a Lincoln, a Daimler, and his favorite Rolls-Royce, a replica of which was featured in the beginning of the film “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Mercury did not have a driver’s license, oddly enough. But the sparkling car would chauffeur the star up until his death in 1991 at age 45. The “Don’t Stop Me Now” singer purchased the car in 1979, and was apparently so excited by it that he insisted his bandmates be a part of its history.
“We filmed the promo video for ‘We Will Rock You’ in the garden of drummer Roger Taylor’s new Surrey mansion … and Freddie upstaged everyone by arriving in his brand-new Roller,” longtime band manager Jim Beach wrote in a letter, according Hagerty Auctions to verify the car’s ownership.
“Freddie insisted that we sign all of the EMI contracts, all of us together, in the back of the Roller because this was the first Rolls he’d ever owned.”
- Top photo and caption courtesy New York Post
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