Celebrate Freddie Mercury’s birthday in style

The Internet is pulling out all kinds of stops today to celebrate the birthday of deceased rock icon Freddie Mercury.

Fruzsina Eördögh

Updated on June 3 2021 2:58 am CDT

In honor of Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday, Google created a special doodle for its site for the next 48 hours, spending three months on it. On social networks, Freddie Mercury was a trending topic on Twitter, and videos of Mercury enjoyed a healthy bump on YouTube.

But birthdays are really about cake …and presents. We have a feeling the self-described “musical prostitute” would be heartened by the digital outpouring… and these products.

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Fruzsina Eördögh

Fruzsina Eördögh was the Daily Dot’s first YouTube reporter. In addition to working as a producer for the now-defunct digital channel TouchVision TV, Eördögh has been published by Vice, the Christian Science Monitor, the Guardian, Variety, and Slate.