Piano, manuscript… Pieces of Freddie Mercury snatched at gold prices at auction

Freddie Mercury’s piano, on which he composed almost all of his work from “Bohemian Rhapsody”, was sold for 1.742 million pounds sterling (two million euros) at auction at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday evening.

The amount reached is lower than the estimate published by the auction house, between two and three million pounds sterling (between 2.3 and 3.5 million euros). This Yamaha quarter grand was bought for a thousand pounds by Freddie Mercury in 1975.

The manuscript of Queen’s famous hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” written by Freddie Mercury was sold for 1.3 million pounds sterling (1.6 million euros), including fees.

These 15 pages in pencil and ballpoint pen on paper with the image of a now defunct airline, “British Midland Airways”, reveal the process of creating this title, which could have been called ” Mongolian Rhapsody”. Sotheby’s had published an estimate between 800,000 and 1.2 million pounds sterling (930,000 to 1.4 million euros).