{"id":33778,"date":"2022-10-15T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=33778"},"modified":"2022-10-15T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T16:03:44","slug":"freddie-mercury-queen-rolls-royce-auction-ukrainian-war-victims-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=33778","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Mercury’s silver Rolls-Royce auction will benefit Ukrainian war victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freddie Mercury<\/a>, Queen\u2019s exuberant front man, had a penchant for very expensive, very lux cars; a Lincoln<\/a>, a Daimler<\/a>, and his favorite, a 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow<\/a>.\u00a0The limousine, which chauffeured Mercury<\/a> until his death in 1991 (he had no driver\u2019s license), is now on its way to a higher calling: It\u2019s to be sold off next month at RM Sotheby’s London auction<\/a>, with proceeds going to the Superhumans Center<\/a>, a charity supported by Richard Branson and others to provide aid for war victims in Ukraine and to fund construction of a hospital in Lviv.<\/p>\n

According to the Hagerty<\/a> automotive site, Mercury\u2019s sister Kashmira<\/a> drove the car for a time after her brother\u2019s death. With 62,000 miles on the clock, it was eventually put up for auction<\/a> in Britain and sold in 2013 and fetched \u00a374,600, the equivalent of \u00a3131,098 (about $146,000) today.<\/p>\n

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The car is painted a color<\/a> called Silver Chalice and has a blue interior. It is powered by a V8 motor. The sedan\u2019s memory was kept alive in the Queen biopic, \u201cBohemian Rhapsody.\u201d<\/a> At the beginning of the film, the rocker is being delivered to the Live Aid concert in a silver Rolls (not Mercury\u2019s original, presumably).\u00a0In other Queen-related news of note, band members Brian May and Roger Taylor authorized the release Thursday of a newly-discover song, \u201cFace It Alone,\u201d<\/a> originally recorded in the 1980s. It was targeted for inclusion on \u201cThe Miracle,\u201d Queen\u2019s 13th<\/sup> studio album, but didn\u2019t make the final release.<\/p>\n

The song was discovered by a team assembling an upcoming eight-disc Queen box set. \u201cWe\u2019d kind of forgotten about this track,\u201d Taylor said in a statement. \u201cBut there it was, this little gem. It\u2019s wonderful, a real discovery. It\u2019s a very passionate piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

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