14 DAY TRIAL // Google is running one of its best doodles yet, in terms of visual spectacle, a video animation dedicated to Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. Today would have been his 65th birthday. To celebrate his legacy, Google created a lengthy, for a doodle, animation set to the sounds of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now.
The animation features Freddie Mercury bringing to life some of the lyrics of the hit song, "I'm a shooting star leaping through the skies, like a tiger defying the laws of gravity," quite literally.
The animation is quite spectacular in itself and also portraits his evolution as a performer.
It took a doodlers team, led by Google's Jennifer Hom, a big fan of Freddie Mercury, about three months to create the animation, which they wanted to be as true to life as possible in depicting the rock artist.
Don't Stop Me Now was picked because it's one of Queen's best-known songs, but also because it was written by Mercury himself. The animation though includes references to a lot of other Queen hits.
Google also published a post by Brian May, a doctor of astrophysics, perhaps better known as Queen's guitarist, in which he talks about his band mate.
"Freddie was fully focused, never allowing anything or anyone to get in the way of his vision for the future. He was truly a free spirit," May wrote.
"Freddie would have been 65 this year, and even though physically he is not here, his presence seems more potent than ever. Freddie made the last person at the back of the furthest stand in a stadium feel that he was connected," he said.
"He gave people proof that a man could achieve his dreams—made them feel that through him they were overcoming their own shyness, and becoming the powerful figure of their ambitions. And he lived life to the full," he added.