A memorial to rock legend Freddie Mercury will be unveiled in Feltham town centre next month.

The Queen singer lived in Gladstone Avenue and will be remembered with a Hollywood-style star outside the library in The Centre, Feltham, which will be unveiled on November 24.

Mercury came to Feltham from Zanzibar with his family in 1964 when he was 17, and studied art at Isleworth Polytechnic, which is now West Thames College.

Councillor Paul Jabbal, chairman of the committee that arranged for the memorial, said: “I am delighted that at last we are honouring Freddie Mercury’s memory and his achievements with a permanent memorial.

“As well as celebrating his life and success, it can serve as a reminder to local people that it doesn’t matter where you come from, if you work hard you can succeed in whatever you do.

“I’m looking forward to welcoming his family, friends and some band members to Feltham to show how proud we are to be associated with such a legendary artist.”

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Because Freddie deserves a monument!

Julio A. Roca, Bernardino Rivadavia, Bartolomé Miter among many other “heroes” of Argentina’s history have something in common, and do not speak the start of the external debt of our country, not the cowardly genocide of our indigenous peoples, or the extermination of our Paraguay brothers, talking about hundreds of monuments, names of streets and avenues, and even the banknotes and coins we use every day … All were unfairly honored (not by the people) despite their crimes and aberrations, while many other heroes and freedom fighters as Er nesto “Che” Guevara recently in June 2008 took his deserved monument.

And if we talk of freedom, to mor, peace, and music … talk about Freddie Mercury, who [ll eno] our lives with plenty of memorable melodies, who once did not sing his song, who is not imitated in the mirror in her room when no one was watching, who shook his head no with Wayne and his friends when they put “Bohemian Rhapsody” on the stereo the car? … YO SI!, And I’m sure many of you also.

Queen was the first foreign rock band to be remembered in South America, in these times we visit the most prestigious bands of the moment, but it was Freddie and his friends who gave us the honor to play for us first in a series of impressive concerts that even today those who were fortunate enough to witness them, remember them with emotion because at that time to attend a massive event of such magnitude was banned by the military dictatorship. They were, are and will be tireless fighters for human rights, much more than what we say about those “heroes” naming the streets where we walk.

Freddie deserves a monument, and even more!, Join this project and is part of an act of love to those who gave us so much happiness with his musical legacy, the November 24, 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of his departure, us show that even We remember, and yet we love it. Bronze with a donation from every corner of Argentina can do it! Take a minute to visit this page and find out how you can help make this tribute reality!.