Freddie Mercury | Notebook containing draft lyrics and other material

Freddie Mercury

Notebook used at Garden Lodge

Including fragmentary draft lyrics (fragment commencing "(Don't) Just hit on me honey", 1 page), also containing pairings of words presumably for use in a song (including "Sex - Disgrace" and "Pressure - Career"), also domestic notes in various hands including engagements ("Gone Shopping") and lists of friends (probably invitees to a party), 40 pages, plus blanks, in a WH Smith spiral bound notebook (130 x 220mm), mid-1980s 

The song that is drafted in this notebook does not appear to have been recorded. It is a typical combination of pop sensibility and harsh content, concluding:

"I don't want nobody

I don't even need myself."

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