Freddie Mercury’s “daring” leather-based hotpants are being bought for £10,000.
The late Queen frontman – who died aged 45 in 1991 from AIDS-related issues – donned the skin-tight black leather-based pants in the course of the encore of a live performance in Birmingham in December 1980 in a bid to “shock” the group.
Now, followers have an opportunity to personal the hotpants, which can go underneath the hammer at Omega Auctions in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, on April 25.
Jacky Gunn, the pinnacle of the Queen Fan Membership, stated of the risqué garment in Queen’s official biography ‘Queen: Because it Started’: “They didn’t go away a lot to the creativeness, however nobody complained.”
Omega’s Dan Hampson commented: “They typify his daring look.”
The ‘We Will Rock You’ hitmaker had a penchant for leather-based and would usually carry out topless with a pair of leather-based trousers.
Freddie’s flamboyant gown sense continues to encourage to at the present time.
Harry Kinds beforehand revealed his daring stage outfits mirror his music idols, together with Freddie, David Bowie and Prince.
The previous One Path star instructed Vogue journal in 2020: “You may by no means be overdressed. There is no such factor.
“The folks I regarded as much as in music – Prince and David Bowie and Elvis and Freddie Mercury and Elton John – they’re such showmen. As a child it was utterly mind-blowing.
“Now I will put one thing on that feels actually flamboyant, and I do not really feel loopy sporting it. I feel if you happen to get one thing that you just really feel superb in, it is like a superhero outfit.”
