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Freddie Mercury's wife Mary Austin is seeking £1.2 million for Bohemian Rhapsody's handwritten lyrics, but did the Queen singer bequeath the legendary scribble to his late boyfriend Jim Hutton?
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August 3, 2023
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE Freddie Mercury's girlfriend Mary Austin, who was selling the contents of his Garden Lodge mansion, has sold Bohemian Rhapsody's handwritten lyrics. But did the Queen warbler actually bequeath the iconic scribble to his last boyfriend Jim Hutton? In a 1994 memoir, Irish-born Hutton said that Freddie promised the lyrics to him before his death. 'Some of my things are still at Garden Lodge,' Hutton wrote. I completely forgot about the Bohemian Rhapsody songs, which Freddie took out of storage for me a year before he died.' Hutton, although Mary was Mercury's girlfriend from 1970 to 1976, was his companion from 1985 to 1991.