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We’re keeping it funky over here on girlblog! with a PC Music playlist for the sunny, sticky, searing summer heatwave happening in the UK. Train’s delayed because of a wildfire by the track’s? Listen to this playlist to pass the time. It’ll fix everything.

Featuring SOPHIE, Ayesha Erotica, Slayyyter, Ashnikko, and Cobrah.

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cat of the month

The girlblog! Cat of the Month for August is Freddie Mercury’s cat Delilah!

With no intention of diminishing the importance of Mercury’s other cats (Oscar, Tiffany, Goliath, Miko, Romeo, Lily, Tom, Jerry, and Dorothy), Delilah was his self-proclaimed favourite. Adopted in 1986, Delilah lived with Freddie at his home Garden Lodge with her needy brother Goliath and her more independent sister, Miko, as well as the inseparable Romeo and Lily, and the oldest cat, Oscar. There was plenty of space at Garden Lodge for the cats to play throughout the house and garden, with their key supplies in the kitchen.

According to Sotheby’s, Freddie would call his cats up whilst on tour to wish them goodnight. Delilah, a slender calico, was the subject of a song on Queen’s 1991 album Innuendo. In the song, Freddie writes of his beloved cat:

You take over my house and home

You even try to answer my telephone

Delilah, you’re the apple of my eye

Delilah and her five siblings were with Mercury until his death in 1991. She was a rescue cat, like the majority of the cats Freddie owned. After he passed, the cats were cared for by his former partner and close friend Mary Austin, her partner Jim Hutton, and Freddie’s personal assistant Peter Freestone. Freestone would recall a visit to Garden Lodge a couple of years after Freddie’s death, where Delilah lay sleeping with her head resting on him for hours. 

What a cuddly kitty!

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