![]() ![]() The song ends with the words: “Nothing really matters to me,” a line that certainly didn’t apply to the way Mercury - and some of his wealthy fans - felt about his possessions.You don’t just listen to “ Bohemian Rhapsody“ you experience it. The song was originally named “Mongolian Rhapsody” before that was crossed out. The drafts showed songs at their inception, with “Bohemian Rhapsody” scratched on stationery from the defunct British Midland Airways. Other items that were treasured by fans were Mercury’s draft lyrics to “Somebody to Love” (241,000 pounds $304,000), and “Don’t Stop Me Now” and “We Are the Champions,” which each fetched the same price: 317,500 pounds $400,700. Sotheby’s said it was the highest price ever paid for a composer’s piano, but they didn’t provide information on the previous record. ![]() It had been expected to sell for as much as 3 million pounds ($3.75 million) but sold for 1.7 million pounds ($2.2 million). The Yamaha baby grand piano that Mercury wrote some of Queen’s greatest hits on was one of the few items that sold for less than its estimated price tag, though it still sold for the most amount of money. One of the quirkier items, a silver moustache comb from Tiffany & Co, that had been expected to set a buyer back 400 to 600 pounds ($500-750) had a bid at 35,000 pounds ($43,750). The green door covered in hand-painted love notes from fans who made a pilgrimage to the house in the tony Kensington section of London sold for an eye-popping 412,750 pounds ($521,000).Īll of the proceeds of the sale of a Cartier onyx and diamond ring given to Mercury by his friend, Elton John, that sold for 273,000 pounds ($344,000) were to go to the “Rocket Man” singer’s AIDS charity. The auction opened with the sale of the graffiti-tagged door to the garden of Mercury’s home that quickly blew past the high estimate of 25,000 pounds ($31,250) projected before the sale and led to a bidding war that lasted nearly 20 minutes. One man raised his hands over his head in victory and hugged the woman seated next to him after bidding 635,000 pounds ($801,500) for the rhinestone-studded crown and red fake fur cloak Mercury wore on stage at the end of every show during Queen’s last tour in 1986. Or it could have been the buyers of one-of-a-kind memorabilia who won. Depending how you looked at it, the champions of the night may have been Sotheby’s or Austin or a few charities she’s promised to donate an undisclosed portion of the proceeds to. ![]()
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