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.

Queen bought the Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1979 after recording their album Jazz there 12 months earlier.

During the interview, May also spoke about his late bandmate Mercury ... A few weeks later, Freddie came back to record the vocal. He could hardly stand, but he’s propping himself up, knocking ...