Fascinating Truths You Probably Didn’t Know About Freddie Mercury

When Freddie Met Jim

The film shows Freddie Mercury meeting Jim Hutton (his future lover at the time) when Hutton worked as waiter at his house in 1980. But Hutton himself stated that he and Mercury met in a London nightclub a couple of years after this.

Source: irishtatler.com

In a scene from the movie when Freddie is looking through the London phone book for Jim Hutton’s number, it shows the phone numbers as starting with ’01 7946 xxxx’. But back in the 70s and 80s, the format would’ve been 01 xxx xxxx (before it became 071/081 and then 0171/0181 before finally becoming 020 7/8).

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