Brian May on the Freddie Mercury Auction
Brian May recently weighed in on the auction of many Freddie Mercury artifacts.
As previously reported, Mercury’s longtime friend/confidant Mary Austin partnered with Sotheby’s for a massive auction of Mercury’s possessions he left to her in his will. Items heading to auction range from stage costumes to hand-written lyrics to pieces of art Mercury collected.
This auction wraps on September 8, and the Queen guitarist is very emotional about it. May shared a photo of Mercury playing his iconic Red Special guitar via Instagram and wrote on September 5, “Tomorrow … Freddie’s most intimate personal effects, and writings that were part of what we shared for so many years, will go under the hammer, to be knocked down to the highest bidder and dispersed forever. I can’t look. To us, his closest friends and family, it’s too sad.”
