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QUEEN STAR FREDDIE MERCURY GREW UP IN THIS ORDINARY FAMILY HOUSE IN FELTHAM

YOU can get diamonds from ashes and rock stars from pebble dash, if Freddie Mercury’s childhood home is anything to go by.

The Queen front man grew up in a modest Feltham home, but it didn’t stop him from becoming one of the world’s most flamboyant musicians.

Long before Freddie was famous for his glitzy costumes and outlandish performances, he lived in a semi-detached Hounslow house near Heathrow Airport.

Freddie, who was born Farrokh Bulsara, moved from Zanzibar to the Gladstone Avenue in Feltham with his parents in 1964, when he was 17.

He met his future Queen band mates guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor while study- ing art at college in Ealing.

And he even worked washing dishes for a stint at Heathrow Airport.

Freddie’s friends and family say the Gladstone Avenue home was where he first started to explore his musical talent. But nowadays a blue plaque is the only exterior sign that a rock legend once lived there. The English Heritage memorial plaque was revealed by Freddie’s former band mate Dr Brian May and his sister Kashmira Cooke in 2016. At the time Kashmira reminisced on how her brother spent his time there sketching for college, listening to Cream and Jimi Hendrix records in his room and dedicated hours to grooming his hair, she told English Heritage. Interest in Queen and Freddie Mercury has grown again thanks to the popularity of the recent biopic Bohemian Rhapsody starring Rami Malek as the singer following him from joining the band to the extraordinaryLive Aid performance at Wembley Stadium in 1985.