{"id":25773,"date":"2024-03-19T13:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/?p=25773"},"modified":"2024-03-19T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T17:04:43","slug":"want-to-buy-freddie-mercurys-old-house-it-only-cost-30-million-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/03\/want-to-buy-freddie-mercurys-old-house-it-only-cost-30-million-pounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Want To Buy Freddie Mercury&#8217;s Old House? It Only Cost 30 Million Pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The house Freddie Mercury loved (and died in) is for sale.<\/p>\n<p>The sellers say they&#8217;re open to bids starting at \u00a330-million, which is just over $50-million Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>The house &#8211; which Mercury purchased in 1980 in the midst of the success of The Game, Queen&#8217;s eighth album &#8211; is in an upscale London neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Freddie Mercury&#39;s home is on the market for first time since 1980 minus his &#39;exquisite clutter&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z8XhwNjGyp\">https:\/\/t.co\/z8XhwNjGyp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1769831608905871402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The eight bedroom home was, at one point, filled with &#8220;exquisite clutter&#8221;, according to Mercury. That included rare pieces of art work and many costumes.<\/p>\n<p>Mercury died of AIDS in 1991, while in the house.<\/p>\n<p>He was 45.<\/p>\n<p>The home has been in the possession of Mary Austin, an ex-girlfriend of Mercury&#8217;s, since his death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been a joy to live in and I have many wonderful memories here. Now that it is empty, I\u2019m transported back to the first time we viewed it. Ever since Freddie and I stepped through the fabled green door, it has been a place of peace, a true artist\u2019s house, and now is the time to entrust that sense of peace to the next person,\u201d Austin said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The house Freddie Mercury loved (and died in) is for sale. The sellers say they&#8217;re open to bids starting at \u00a330-million, which is just over $50-million Canadian. The house &#8211; which Mercury purchased in 1980 in the midst of the success of The Game, Queen&#8217;s eighth album &#8211; is in an upscale London neighbourhood. Freddie","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":24062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3313,27,25],"class_list":["post-25773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-afternoons-with-craig-needles","tag-freddie-mercury","tag-queen"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 02:02:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/classicrock981.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/03\/want-to-buy-freddie-mercurys-old-house-it-only-cost-30-million-pounds\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25774,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25773\/revisions\/25774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}