Did Freddie Mercury write the song entitled "Love of My Life," for a man? No, the song "Love of My Life" was written for Mary Austin. ** Note: View You Tube slide show of Freddie Mercury and Mary Austin below. "In the early 1970s Mercury had a long-term relationship with a girlfriend named Mary Austin (whom he had met through guitarist Brian FREDDIE MERCURY loved Mary Austin and Jim Hutton - but why did he leave her everything and not the man he spent his final years with? Was it from guilt? One of Freddie's closest friends explains. Freddie Mercury: Jim Hutton discusses AIDS diagnosis in 1994. When he died in 1991, Mercury had been in a seven-year relationship with hairdresser Jim Hutton, who he met at a nightclub. Although he moved on and dated men, ending up with Jim Hutton, Freddie and Mary's bond was unbreakable. She was one of the very few people he trusted to care for him in his final days. Mary said Freddie Mercury and Jim Hutton were in his bed when he died. Austin was given the opportunity to receive Mercury’s ashes at a small funeral. Despite the fact that friends had wanted to remove the wedding ring from his finger, he had it cremated. By the time he met Mercury he was working at the Savoy. Hutton moved in to Garden Lodge in early 1986. Were they monogamous? Hutton “veered a little bit but not much, I’m a one-man man”, while a friend of Mercury’s told Hutton that the star had a boyfriend in Mu-nich. “She said that things weren’t going well between them and Freddie wjY6IB0. W hat made Freddie Mercury such a captivating public figure is the same thing that makes him such a difficult subject to capture fully on film: his multitudes. Examine his sexuality alone and you Jim and Freddie met at a club in 1984 when Mercury offered to buy him a drink and Hutton politely turned him down. He says he didn’t recognize Freddie but a few months later while at a restaurant his friend told him, “Hey, Freddie Mercury is behind you.” While hanging out at a gay club called Heaven in London in March of 1985, Freddie approached Hutton, offering to buy him a drink. Apparently Hutton wasn't impressed and refused the drink. Hutton was already involved with someone else, he told Freddie (via All That's Interestin g ). 'Mercury and Me' Dave Hogan/Getty Images The invitation to dinner at Freddie Mercury’s home held the promise of a fun-filled evening for his close friend, Sixties pop idol Dave Clark. his assistant and Jim Hutton, his lover Seal performs on stage at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness, Wembley Stadium, London, 20th April 1992. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images). Picture: Getty. Brian May famously said in his introduction to the concert: "Good evening Wembley and the world. We are here tonight to celebrate the life, and work, and dreams, of Freddie Mercury: Brian May says 'We didn't know he was ill for years' (INTERVIEW) 'Queen wipe their a**es with the Rolling Stones' says music icon ( EXCLUSIVE) May said: "He didn’t die alone.

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