Freddie Mercury gets official seal of approval in Iran (Middle East Online)

This bit of news is a few weeks old but I just remembered it and wanted to add it here.

'Aapro' Freddie Mercury's band, Queen, has become the first rock band to be given the official seal of approval in Iran. Various news reports claim that Freddie was proud of his Iranian ancestry (he was a Parsi) but no mention of whether this influenced the Iranian decision.

BTW, from what I remember he tried to distance himself from his Indianness. The 'aapro' ('our' in Gujarati/Parsi) above is because he was a Parsi 'chhokro' from B'bay.