{"id":30270,"date":"2024-09-03T21:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T21:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/ronnie-woods-portrait-of-queens-freddie-mercury-raising-money-for-charity\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T21:02:31","slug":"ronnie-woods-portrait-of-queens-freddie-mercury-raising-money-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/ronnie-woods-portrait-of-queens-freddie-mercury-raising-money-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Wood\u2019s portrait of Queen\u2019s Freddie Mercury raising money for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-03\/Getty_FreddieMercury_090324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Dave Hogan\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A new portrait of <strong>Queen<\/strong> frontman <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong>\u00a0is helping to raise money for an important cause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The portrait, \u201cThe Mercury,\u201d was painted by <strong>Rolling Stones<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Ronnie Wood<\/strong>\u00a0and is described as &#8220;a homage to one of the greatest singers in the history of Rock music.&#8221; It features Freddie with a fist in the air and has him dressed in what is described as his &#8220;iconic yellow jacket worn at the legendary 1986 Wembley concert.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Only 250 numbered, unframed prints are available for purchase for $999, with each hand signed by Wood.\u00a0 A\u00a0portion of the profits from the sale\u00a0will be\u00a0donated to the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercuryphoenixtrust.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Mercury Phoenix Trust<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, a\u00a0charity established by the surviving members of Queen following Mercury\u2019s 1991 death to fight AIDs worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Mercury\u201d is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.ronniewood.com\/products\/the-mercury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>available to order<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Hogan\/Getty Images A new portrait of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury\u00a0is helping to raise money for an important cause. The portrait, \u201cThe Mercury,\u201d was painted by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood\u00a0and is described as &#8220;a homage to one of the greatest singers in the history of Rock music.&#8221; It features<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/ronnie-woods-portrait-of-queens-freddie-mercury-raising-money-for-charity\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}