Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury was a man of many talents and many different sides. The songs he wrote for and with Queen filled stadiums around the globe and have rightly gone down in history, but Freddie also enjoyed a successful solo career that took him from the clubs of Munich and New York to the great opera houses of the world.

He was the ultimate showman, yet he kept his private life away from the prying eyes of the media — a larger-than-life rock star who loved disco, classical music and ballet. He was a restless spirit, a true chameleon who revelled in his own contradictions.

All the different sides of this iconic musician can be found on Freddie Mercury: Messenger Of The Gods – The Singles, a box set bringing together all thirteen of Freddie’s solo singles on individually coloured vinyl.

From his 1973 debut solo single, I Can Hear Music, released under the name Larry Lurex, through the dance-floor-driven solo anthems of the 1980s to his collaborations with legendary Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballé — including the timeless Barcelona — this is a journey through the career of a unique talent.

Messenger Of The Gods also includes two posthumous singles, In My Defence and Living On My Own (No More Brothers Radio Mix), the latter of which became Freddie’s first solo No. 1 and the biggest selling European single of 1993.

Had he lived, it is anyone’s guess where the muses of this most restless and protean of singers might have taken him. But Messenger Of The Gods – The Singles is a towering legacy, a collection of songs that will never lose their stature of classics and will live on forever.

Messenger Of The Gods was released in September 2016 as a box set featuring 13 x 7” singles on coloured vinyl , as well as on 2CD and as a digital album.