Freddie Mercury was little doubt one of many world’s most iconic rock legends. Yet behind the flamboyant and extroverted stage persona was the shy and candy Farrokh Bulsara.

When the cameras weren’t on him, the actual Freddie was current – the person Sir Brian May knew so personally.

During their twenty years collectively as Queen with Roger Taylor and John Deacon, the guitarist beloved to doc their excursions together with his personal particular type of 3-D pictures referred to as stereoscopy.

Sir Brian put collectively many of those never-before-seen pictures for his e-book Queen 3-D. And this week he shared a snap of Freddie throughout an look on the BBC’s The One Show, commenting on why it was a favorite.

Speaking on the picture beneath, Sir Brian mentioned: “I guess I love it because it’s intimate. If you had a photographer there, Freddie would be self-conscious and he would be posing.

“But this, we are in a limousine, we are excited, we were kids really. Kind of enjoying the scenery and enjoying a drink as we get driven around, which was a big deal in those days.

“He is not conscious that I’m taking pictures the whole time so you see him so relaxed. And that’s the Freddie I remember. He was always relaxed and fun.”

Sir Brian added: “On stage, very much not relaxed. He was giving everything and making that connection. He was a wonderful guy. He really was.”

On inspecting the picture together with his particular OWL viewer that comes with Queen in 3-D, the 76-year-old mentioned: “It’s like you could touch him, it’s like you could talk to him.”