Sep 05, 2023 Jim Hutton on the Big Breakfast. YouTube Freddie Mercury was born on this day, September 5, in 1946. Honoring the Queen frontman's birthday, we look at how Jim Hutton, a The Queen singer met Mary in the early 1970s as the band started making waves in the music industry. Freddie had been living with his partner Jim Hutton and it was reported that the iconic (Jim complains about Mary suggesting that Freddie buy him a used car, and objecting to a pay raise for him). Freddie had the ultimate decision, but gifts like the Audi that Freddie bought for Jim was still in Freddie's name. He did leave 500,000 pounds to Jim Hutton, 500,000 pounds to Joe Fanelli, his chef. Jim Hutton and Freddie Mercury. Although they didn't consummate the marriage, Jim and Freddie wore wedding bands rings as a symbol of their commitment to each other. At that time, such marriages were not yet legalised in the United Kingdom, and it wasn't until nearly two decades later. INT. FREDDIE’S GEORGIAN MANSION (GARDEN LODGE)/ LONDON - DAY This SOUND-TRACK fades away, shifting into funereal SCORE (”GOLDEN BOY” by FREDDIE MERCURY) as - we look down through a series of opened doors, toward a distant BEDROOM DOOR. From within, a distraught voice cries out: JIM HUTTON (O.S.) Freddie! W hat made Freddie Mercury such a captivating public figure is the same thing that makes him such a difficult subject to capture fully on film: his multitudes. Examine his sexuality alone and you The film also supplies a silly meet-cute between Mercury and Jim Hutton, an Irish-born hairdresser who lived with Mercury during the last six years of his life. Seal performs on stage at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness, Wembley Stadium, London, 20th April 1992. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images). Picture: Getty. Brian May famously said in his introduction to the concert: "Good evening Wembley and the world. We are here tonight to celebrate the life, and work, and dreams, of bTkOOsJ.