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.

In 1996, a statue of Queen singer Freddie Mercury was unveiled in Montreux, Switzerland to pay tribute to the rocker. In 1984, Paul McCartney, U2’s Bono and Adam Clayton, David Bowie ...