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1. Freddie composed "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" whilst he was having a bath. He brought a piano into the bathroom so he could finish writing the song.
2. Freddie once dressed Princess Diana in drag and took her to a gay a bar (The Royal Vauxhall Tavern) in London.
3. Freddie was a member of two bands before Queen: Wreckage and Sour Milk Sea.
4. Freddie once worked as a life model to earn some money to buy a pair of Levi's.
5. Freddie had already started writing Bohemian Rhapsody in college. At the time, he had only written the line "Mama, just killed a man" and he called the composition The Cowboy Song.
6. Freddie played the same piano recording Bohemian Rhapsody as Paul McCartney did to record Hey Jude.
7. Freddie and Michael Jackson attempted to collaborate but Freddie called it quits after Michael brought his pet llama to the studio with him.
8. Just before Freddie died, he got to watch the Bohemian Rhapsody headbanging scene from Wayne's World. Freddie loved it and Brian May said that the humour of the scene matched the humour of the band.
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