(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Thousands of fans converge on the western Swiss lakeside town of Montreux every year, enticed by an ever-growing number of Freddie Mercury-related attractions that help them to ...

Peter Freestone was Freddie Mercury’s personal assistant for 12 ... an annual event in Montreux to celebrate Freddie’s birthday in September, since the event was created more than 20 years ...

A highlight is the personal commentary of Peter Freestone, Mercury’s personal assistant for many years. According to Freestone, Freddie was surprised and delighted by how residents of Montreux ...

A statue of Fredddie Mercury in Montreux, Switzerland. Queen recorded seven studio albums in Montreux, including Freddie Mercury's final studio recording for Queen's 1991 album "Innuendo." ...

May said that when recording his guitar solo for A Winter’s Tale, he imagined that Mercury was with him. “Freddie wrote the song in Montreux,” May recalled, “in a little house on the lake that we ...

The field is much broader than Freddie, even if he is certainly one of its icons.” Montreux is on the bucket list of many Mercury fans: a place that absolutely has to be visited once in a lifetime.