Freddie Mercury | Notebook with autograph manuscript lyrics, c.1985

Freddie Mercury

Notebook containing autograph manuscript lyrics to a song entitled 'A Living Man'

With draft lyrics (including the line "Grew my Moustache and I thought Everything was O-Kay") and notes on instrumentation, in blue and black ballpoint and pencil, with a draft invitation to his birthday party on 5 September 1985 ("...Dress like a woman!..."), 16 pages, remainder blank, in half red cloth with patterned boards (180 x 130mm), c.1985

"Broken Glass

(is) Everywhere

Pieces of my Heart

In Need of repair..."

This song was apparently never completed, despite these extensive notes. It probably dates from the burst of renewed activity that followed Live Aid and led to A Kind of Magic.

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