Freddie Mercury has made a list of "60 Asian Heroes" compiled in a special edition of "Time," released on November 13th. The magazine writes, "Hardly anyone thinks of Farrokh Bulsara as an Asian. To the world he was the rock star Freddie Mercury." The article goes on to say, "No other Asian musician or pop-cultural figure has enjoyed the same universal appeal... It's time to recognize him as the great Asian artist that he was, and to bring his memory home."
The list included, among others, Deng Xiaoping, The Dalai Lama, Salman Rushdie and Akira Kurosawa.
Here is a link: http://www.time.com/time/asia/2006/heroes/at_bulsara.html