Freddie Mercury, Queen Live, Cardiff Castle, 1976 Size:16 × 20 in (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Hand-signed on the front and

Hand-signed on the front and stamped on the verso by the artist

By the mid-1970s

captured during a defining moment in the early American folk revival

standing at the microphone with one arm raised in a charged stage gesture

Freddie Mercury, Queen Live, Cardiff Castle, 1976 Size:16 × 20 in (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Hand-signed on the front andFreddie Mercury at the microphone, photographed by Martyn Goddard at Queen's Cardiff Castle concert in 1976, a spotlit black and white frame from one of the open air shows the band played at the height of their mid 1970s rise. Goddard photographed Queen across a three year period for the British press, working the pit at gig after gig; images like this one capture Mercury's command of a stage before Queen became a stadium act. Produced as museum