Here are five things you should know about Freddie Mercury and Zanzibar, a conservative Muslim society: Mercury was born in Zanzibar's Government Hospital on 5 September 1946. His parents Bomi and ...

The statue of the Roman god Mercury was removed from the city's Lyceum Theatre due to cracks and rusting of its steel framework. The 12ft (3.65m) figure, nicknamed Freddie by theatre staff ...

Anyone who's seen the new film Bohemian Rhapsody was exposed to snippets of Queen frontman Freddie ... to the island of Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania), where Mercury was born in 1946.

This awardwinning documentary is the untold story of Freddie mercury from his birth in Zanzibar to his death in London There were those who shared an extremely close relationship with Freddie his ...