Top Freddie Mercury tribute artist, Stars In Their Eyes winner Gary Mullen, is in One Night of Queen in Blackburn on September 16.

On Tuesday of this week Freddie Mercury would have been celebrating his 60th birthday.

Although we lost him almost 15 years ago, his music is as popular today as ever before.

Ahead of his show at King George's Hall, Gary Mullen told us his first...

MEMORY: Probably being at Blackpool with my family and falling down a hole someone had dug on the beach.

HOME: In Glasgow. My mum and I lived with my grandparents. It was a mad house - we were a typical loud Glaswegian family. The radio was always on - I suppose that's what first gave me a love of music. It was happy and mad.

HOLIDAY: To Ibiza when I was four. Of course there was no clubbing - the only clubbing I did was golf clubbing on the crazy golf course!

JOB: An ill-fated job in a butcher's shop aged 16. I only lasted about four weeks. I had to make sausages and black pudding, carry dead animals off the back of the delivery lorry. It was the worst job in the world. I still eat sausages but I wouldn't go near black pudding after what I saw, it put me right off. I'll spare you the details but I had to be in at 7am to take delivery of the fresh blood delivered from the abattoir. It was hell on earth.

CAR: A K-reg Metro. I started big!

RECORD: Oh God... I think it was Don't Stop Me Now by Queen.

PET: An Alsatian called Pop. His real name was Prince but I didn't want to call him that.

DATE: When I was 12 and on holiday with my cousin in Pontins. We saw two girls we liked so I went over and my cousin ran off so I had to set up a date for all four of us. We went to the mini disco and I think I bought her a can of dandelion and burdock and a Twix - no expense spared!

GIG: I used to be in a band with a few friends. The first gig we ever did was in a pub in an area of Glasgow called Drumchapel - it's not there anymore, someone blew it up. It was a real baptism of fire. The guy in charge said he'd watch our van and if anyone tried to steal it, he'd shoot them. Then he asked us to play Purple Haze. We made sure we played that first!

Gary Mullen and his band The Works are at King George's Hall in Blackburn on Saturday, September 16. Call the box office on 01254 582582.