LONDON---More than 1,500 items from Freddie Mercury's private collection, including costumes, unique objects and previously unseen handwritten draft lyrics, will be auctioned later this year, Sotheby's announced on Wednesday, April 26. The Queen frontman's collection, which has been left largely untouched at his former west London home in the three decades since his death, will be exhibited publicly in the British capital for a month from Aug. 4. Prior to that in June, highlights from the ensemble will go on tour to New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, as well as London. The vast array of items---spanning clothing, paintings, and objects from Mercury's everyday life---will t...Keep on reading: Freddie Mercury’s private collection to be sold after exhibition