Freddie Mercury’s ‘We Will Rock You’ video-worn bomber jacket, 1977

Freddie Mercury’s ‘We Will Rock You’ video-worn bomber jacket, 1977

A late 1970s taupe-coloured metallic bomber jacket with large honey-coloured imitation fur collar, beige and black striped knitted cuffs and hem, two slip pockets, zip-fastening to front and breast pocket and padded black lining, labelled inside ‘Lions Mane’, Size ‘S’ worn by Freddie in the video for ‘We Will Rock You’, shot in the snow-covered grounds of Roger Taylor’s recently purchased country house in Surrey;

with a pair of 1980s stone-coloured cotton jeans-style trousers, labelled on back pocket ‘Rifle’;

and a pair of white leather ‘Panther’ sneakers with brand logo stitched in aquamarine blue to leather uppers and to front of cotton tongues, with matching coloured towelling lining, cream moulded rubber soles

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The video for ‘We Will Rock You’, one of Queen’s greatest anthems, was originally shot as an afterthought. Queen had just completed the video for 'Spread Your Wings' and decided to produce an additional video for 'We Will Rock You', even though it had not yet been selected for release as a single.

In an interview with Billboard, Roger Taylor described how the shoot came to be outside on a cold winter’s day: “ We shot it on the grounds of a country house I'd just bought in Surrey and we hadn't completed the sale, so we weren't allowed in the house. We figured, 'we might as well shoot it here.' It was absolutely freezing cold and we did three takes.” 

Freddie is also photographed wearing this bomber jacket standing at the shore of lake Geneva in Montreux, Switzerland close to his Duck House home in the late 1970s.

LITERATURE

Freddie Mercury – The Great Pretender, A Life in Pictures, Welbeck, 2012, p.88

Phil Sutcliffe with Peter Hince, Mick Rock, Reinhold Mack and Billy Squier, Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of The Crown Kings of Rock, Voyageur Press, 2009, illus..p.118

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