In honor of the occasion, Lotus has donated a one-off Evora S for a charity auction with proceeds going to support the HIV AIDS charity fund, Mercury Phoenix Trust. The striking sports car’s color scheme features red and gold racing stripes as well as an interior influenced by one of Freddie Mercury’s stage costumes back in 1986. To top it all off, the Evora will also sport Mercury’s signature on the passenger side of the dashboard.

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2011/09/lotus-evora-s-freddie-mercury-edition-revealed.html

Happy Birthday Freddie wherevere you would ever be! We still love you very much down here, missing you much than ever. People still listening your music with the same high feelings and exitments.  You are the best singer ever been in this world … We love you so much, and we miss you … we miss your voice, your color and your flair. You are still here in so many ways. You will be forever loved!

I was born to love you

With every single beat of my heart

Happy Birthday Freddie

R.I.P. my dear!

And Katy Perry wishing Happy Birthday to Freddie for his 65th anniverssary

I love Google for remember … and honour the 65th birthday of Freddie Mercury!

From time to time we invite guests to post about items of interest and are thrilled to have Brian May join us to talk about friend and bandmate Freddie Mercury. Our doodle celebrating Freddie’s birthday can be seen around the world on September 5 and, out of respect for Labor Day, in the U.S. on September 6. A guitarist and songwriter, Brian May is a founding member of Queen and wrote many of the band’s hits, including “We Will Rock You,” “The Show Must Go On” and “I Want It All.” Brian is also a respected solo artist and one of the founders of Freddie for a Day (www.freddieforaday.com), an organization helping to fight HIV/AIDS globally. – Ed.

I was first introduced to Freddie Mercury—a paradoxically shy yet flamboyant young man—at the side of the stage at one of our early gigs as the group “SMILE.” He told me he was excited by how we played, he had some ideas—and he could sing! I’m not sure we took him very seriously, but he did have the air of someone who knew he was right. He was a frail but energised dandy, with seemingly impossible dreams and a wicked twinkle in his eye. A while later we had the opportunity to actually see him sing … and it was scary! He was wild and untutored, but massively charismatic. Soon, he began his evolution into a world-class vocal talent, right in front of our eyes.

Freddie was fully focused, never allowing anything or anyone to get in the way of his vision for the future. He was truly a free spirit. There are not many of these in the world. To achieve this, you have to be, like Freddie, fearless—unafraid of upsetting anyone’s apple cart.

Some people imagine Freddie as the fiery, difficult diva who required everyone around him to compromise. No. In our world, as four artists attempting to paint on the same canvas, Freddie was always the one who could find the compromise—the way to pull it through. If he found himself at odds with any one of us, he would quickly dispel the cloud with a generous gesture, a wisecrack or an impromptu present. I remember one morning after a particularly tense discussion he presented me with a cassette. He had been up most of the night compiling a collage of my guitar solos. “I wanted you to hear them as I hear them, dear,” he said. “They’re all fab, so I made them into a symphony!”

To create with Freddie was always stimulating to the max. He was daring, always sensing a way to get outside the box. Sometimes he was too far out … and he’d usually be the first to realise it. With a conspiratorial smile he would say “Oh … did I lose it, dears?!” But usually there was sense in his nonsense—art in his madness. It was liberating. I think he encouraged us all in his way, to believe in our own madness, and the collective mad power of the group Queen.

Freddie would have been 65 this year, and even though physically he is not here, his presence seems more potent than ever. Freddie made the last person at the back of the furthest stand in a stadium feel that he was connected. He gave people proof that a man could achieve his dreams—made them feel that through him they were overcoming their own shyness, and becoming the powerful figure of their ambitions. And he lived life to the full. He devoured life. He celebrated every minute. And, like a great comet, he left a luminous trail which will sparkle for many a generation to come.

Happy birthday Freddie!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/happy-birthday-freddie-mercury.html?m=0

Queen release their two track single ‘Stormtroopers in Stilettos’ as a download on Sunday 27th February 2011 in the week their exhibition of the same name opens, through Island Records. There will be a limited edition 7” release in April.

Featuring two tracks recorded in the early 70’s, ‘Keep Yourself Alive (Long Lost Retake)’ (the original version taken from ‘Queen’) and ‘Stone Cold Crazy’ (from ‘Sheer Heart Attack’), the single is released to coincide with the exhibition ‘Stormtroopers in Stilettos’ which runs at Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in London for two weeks from Friday 25th February 2010. The single will be available as part of National Record Store Day taking place on 16th April and is limited to just 2000 numbered copies on heavyweight vinyl (more news soon).

Reminding us that Queen could rock hard with the best of them, the two tracks on the single are lightning strikes of adrenalized rhythm, furious guitars and fearsome high wire vocals. Capable of breathtaking rock’n’roll, early Queen has inspired some of the best heavy rock of subsequent decades.

‘Keep Yourself Alive’ was the first single Queen ever released back in 1973 and is now poignantly released on their 40th Anniversary. This is the only Queen single that ever failed to chart in the UK mainly because Radio One rejected it claiming it took long to get going! This new 2011 remaster is a long-lost retake of the track recorded in 1975 for a USA single that never saw the light of day. The original version is taken from Queen’s debut album, Dave Grohl’s favourite album of all time.

Q recently described ‘Stone Cold Crazy’ as “thrash metal before the term was invented”, and the track has been covered by Josh Homme and Metallica amongst others. This was the one of the first tracks that Queen ever played live and the version on the single is a brand new 2011 remaster.

http://www.queenonline.com/en/news-archive/stormtroopers-stilettos-7-download-single/

For last one you must click to watch it on You Tube

Don’t sit on the fence any longer and get registered NOW! This is your opportunity to rub elbows with those closet to Queen so don’t miss this opportunity.

Don’t miss out on the brilliant tribute band Celebrating Queen. They are planning a full out assault of your musical senses and will definitely rock you!

For the first time at a North American Convention Peter `Phoebe’ Freestone will attend and do a presentation and question and answer session. Peter as you may know was Freddie’s assistant, oh the stories he will tell us! Peter has attended the UK convention many times as well as other gatherings. If you never could get over to the other side of the pond to witness and meet Peter then this is your chance to ask him all those questions you have been dying to ask. And that only happens at Breakthru July 16-18th 2010 in Detroit.

The ever graceful and fun Jacky Smith will be in Detroit. Holder of the keys to the Queendom world! Ok maybe not all of it, but who does everyone call when they need something or have a question? Jacky of course. This is your chance to meet her, ask her questions and so on.

Get yourself ready for rare videos, brutal trivia, all things “Flash” costume contest, charity raffle and auction, evening buffet, games, contests and fun.

So come join Queen fans from Europe, the UK, all points North and South of the US, and points East and West of Canada at Breakthru The Official North American Queen Convention July 16-18th 2010 Detroit Michigan.

Visit the website for full details www.queenbreakthru.com