About 1,500 items from Freddie Mercury's London home will be displayed in exhibitions around the world before being auctioned on Sept. 5 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

Singing their acoustic song "Love of My Life," May sat on a stool and performed for the crowd before a clip of Mercury singing ... "Roger and I, after we lost Freddie, said 'OK, this is the ...

It’s been more than 33 years since Queen, spearheaded by their electric front man Freddie Mercury ... three years before Mercury died of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.