Freddie Mercury's first London home gets a blue plaque
Brian May and his sister were there to see the unveiling.
Just days before Freddie Mercury, real name Freddie Bulsara, would have celebrated his 70th birthday a blue plaque has been unveiled in his honour.
The small semi-detached house in west London was the Queen frontman's first house in the capital when his parents moved from Zanzibar in 1964 and Freddie was just 17.
During his time living in the house Freddie met future bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor.
Brian, who was the band's guitarist visited the singer when he lived there.
"We spent most of the day appreciating and analysing in intimate detail the way that Jimi Hendrix had put his recordings together" he recounted.
Brian and Kashmira Cooke, Freddie's sister, were amongst those gathered at the unveiling of the plaque.
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"Secretly he would have been very proud and pleased" to receive this honour said Kashmira.
Speaking about her time in the house Kashmira said that family struggled to adjust to the colder climate, "The house had no central heating.
"We were not familiar with coal fires and had to be shown how to light it." She remembered.
While living at that house Freddie studied Graphic Art and Design at Ealing College of Art and worked in kitchens at Heathrow Airport.
Freddie Mercury sadly died at the age of just 45 in 1991.
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