How Did Freddie Mercury Meet Jim Hutton

Hutton s role in mercury s life is portrayed in bohemian rhapsody as a simple one.

How freddie mercury met his long term irish love jim hutton who was born on this day on new year s day in 2010 hutton died at the age of 60 from lung cancer just three days shy of his 61st. The unfortunate fact is that it s a fantasy. Freddie mercury s rockstar status held little clout with jim hutton the first time the pair met. It was some partners later that he met jim hutton.

When jim hutton met freddie mercury. While we catch a glimpse of freddie mercury and jim hutton s budding relationship in the film it ends at the beginning. Hutton was already seeing someone else at the time and did not pay much attention to him. Hutton didn t work for freddie and he didn t disappear in a puff of smoke inspiring sudden self reflection on the part of an otherwise irredeemable totem of pop culture vanity.

Their first meeting was mostly uneventful with the irish born hairdresser rejecting mercury s offer to buy a drink when they met at a gay club in london called heaven.