Freddie Mercury's handwritten drafts for Queen's legendary hit Bohemian Rhapsody have offered at public sale for greater than £1.3m.

Written on paper for the now-defunct airline British Midland, the 15-page manuscript reveals the completely different instructions the singer thought of for the band's six-minute epic.

It options the track's timeless lyric "nothing really matters" and reveals how the star thought of naming the track "Mongolian Rhapsody" - earlier than crossing out "Mongolian" in favour of "Bohemian".

The notes had been one of many star objects amongst a treasure trove of the Queen frontman's most prized possessions, which had been put up on the market with the luxurious auctioneer Sotheby's.

Mercury's Yamaha child grand piano - used to compose among the group's most iconic hits - was offered on the similar public sale for £1.7m.

A Victorian-style snake bangle famously worn by Mercury within the video for Bohemian Rhapsody offered for £698,500 - the best worth ever paid for a chunk of jewelry owned by a rock star.

It beat the £295,000 ($368,000) paid for a leather-based and bead talisman worn by Beatles star John Lennon.

The objects had been put up for public sale by Mercury's shut good friend, Mary Austin.

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The singer left her his Kensington residence and all of the possessions inside when he died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1991, on the age of 45.

A complete of 1,400 objects are being auctioned - together with a inexperienced door coated in hand-painted love notes from followers which offered for £412,750 ($521,000).

Other objects to go beneath the hammer embody the star's flamboyant stage costumes and handwritten drafts of hits reminiscent of We Are The Champions.

Some of the proceeds of the public sale - which is predicted to usher in round £6m in whole - might be donated to charity.

All the proceeds of the sale of a Cartier onyx and diamond ring given to Mercury by Elton John that offered for £273,000 ($344,000) might be donated to the Rocket Man singer's AIDS charity.

The objects within the public sale had been placed on show in Sotheby's galleries forward of the public sale to create a free museum-esque exhibit - named Freddie Mercury: A World Of His Own.

The show attracted greater than 140,000 guests in simply over a month.

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