Freddie Mercury's stage-worn boilersuit, with a black & white scarf, another boilersuit, and two pairs of sneakers, worn in 1977

Freddie Mercury's stage-worn boilersuit, with a black & white scarf, another boilersuit, and two pairs of sneakers, 1977

a white cotton boilersuit with two patch pockets to front and two slit pockets to trouser legs, the front pockets and front fastening with white plastic buttons with metal stud, long narrow pocket to side of left leg, white cotton belt with white metal buckle, button fly, unlined, labelled ‘Quality Workwear’ with a navy blue and white stripe knitted scarf, with navy and white striped fringe either end, labelled ‘JUN’, 219 cm. long; a sky blue cotton boilersuit with slanted patch pockets to front and back and two side pockets, the right leg with zip pocket to knee, the left front pocket and waistband trimmed with blue grosgrain ribbon trim, the front fastening with clear plastic buttons and zip fly with concealed hook and eye fastening to waist, unlined, labelled ‘Fred Spur’; a pair of cream canvas ‘Adidas’ sneakers with white stripes and blue logo to heel, white laces, white rubber toe cap and white moulded rubber soles, size 8; and a pair of turquoise blue cricket books, each outer ankle with a coloured sticker printed ‘The Brooks, Patent Cricket Boots, Jolly Good Sport’, white laces [cream rubber soles have almost completely desiccated] no size present

(qty 7)

Freddie wore this or an an identical boilersuit to record ‘Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy’ for the U.K. chart show Top Of The Pops on 14 June 1977. There are also photographs of Freddie on stage wearing an identical suit at the Frankfurt Festhalle, 14 May, 1977 with the belt tied at the waist. This ensemble was worn during the Day At The Races tour of 1976, publicity photographs for which were reproduced on the Masterworks Collector’s Edition CD for the album. This scarf also appears in numerous photographs from this time, indicating that it was a favourite accessory worn with various outfits. 

The Adidas three-stripe sneakers in this lot are similar to those Freddie’s seen wearing on stage in the Princes of the Universe video, 1986.

A boiler suit identical to the blue one included in this lot can be seen in a photograph by Peter Hince depicting Freddie with Mary Austin a garden party at the Ede Au Lac Hotel, Montreux, during the recording of the Jazz album, July, 1978 (Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History Of The Crown Kings Of Rock, Voyageur Press, 2009, p.119).

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