{"id":761140,"date":"2026-09-05T19:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761140\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:50:17","slug":"freddie-mercury-jacket-sells-on-day-he-would-have-turned-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761140\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Mercury jacket sells on day he would have turned 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A jacket worn by rock legend Freddie Mercury during his last live singing performance has sold for \u00a385,000 on what would have been his 80th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Queen star wore the cropped black jacket during a surprise guest appearance alongside Cliff Richard at a charity gala at the Dominion Theatre in London in April 1988.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wiltshire-based auctioneers Henry Aldridge &amp; Son said a collector paid a total of \u00a3110,000 for the jacket at auction earlier, including the winning bid of \u00a385,000 and a buyers&#8217; premium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a fantastic piece of showbiz history,&#8221; said managing director Andrew Aldridge. &#8220;He was one of the greatest showmen of the 20th Century,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The jacket was sold alongside letters from charity AIDSTakeCare International and the daughter of actress Barbara Valentin, who had been given the jacket by Mercury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A jacket worn by rock legend Freddie Mercury during his last live singing performance has sold for \u00a385,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-761140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}