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Roberto De Ponti
An interview with Freddie Mercury's muse: «When I heard Somebody to Love, I realised that everything was coming to an end. He was looking for someone to love, and it was no longer me»
LONDON - The inspiration came from a trunk in the attic. From its contents: notebooks, sheets of paper filled with notes and jottings, and texts written sometimes on impulse, sometimes with meticulous precision. And from the wave of emotions that the discovery unleashed.«Opening that trunk, one morning four years ago, suddenly flung open a whole world for me again. A whole life. I found Freddie’s song lyrics again. I had packed them myself in 1985, when we moved to Garden Lodge, but I had completely forgotten about them. When I found the trunk and opened it, suddenly everything came back to me. Everything. And do you know something? As I was sorting through the papers, one song kept playing over and over in my head: "Don’t Stop Me Now"»
It is difficult to imagine that this elegant woman, calmly and gently recounting her discovery in the attic, is actually the keeper of the secrets of a rock legend, Freddie Mercury, the frontman of Queen, one of the most unmistakable voices in music, who died in 1991 after contracting AIDS. She was his partner, his muse, his girlfriend, and then, once their love affair had ended, she became his personal assistant, friend, double, ultimately becoming—in a broader sense—the custodian of his artistic and personal legacy.
