Freddie Mercury, Queen Live, Cardiff Castle, 1976 Size:16 × 20 in (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Sheila Rock's 1980 photograph of

Sheila Rock's 1980 photograph of Sade Adu should be normalized under the verified subject and year already present in Shopify

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

His camera records a subject already aware of image-making

By the mid-1970s

Freddie Mercury, Queen Live, Cardiff Castle, 1976 Size:16 × 20 in (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Sheila Rock's 1980 photograph ofFreddie 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