Legendary QUEEN Frontman Freddie Mercury's "Civil Partner" Passes Rock Hard QUEEN guitarist
Brian May has posted the following message at his official
website:
"We mark and mourn the passing, after a long smoking-related illness of
Jim Hutton. Jim and
Freddie (Mercury) were close for many years, of course, and in modern parlance would have been called civil partners. Jim was a quiet and gentle soul, unimpressed and faintly amused by the machinations of fame,
rock and roll, and Queen, and so provided Freddie with a refreshingly different view on life.
Jim was devoted to gardening, and to breeding the carp which gave
Freddie so much pleasure in his pond at Garden Lodge. Our sincere condolences to his sisters and family. RIP Jim."