The 1980s was the time when HIV/AIDS became a pandemic that claimed countless lives and deeply affected society.
It was this disease that extinguished the flame of Freddie Mercury, the leader of the band Queen, whose health began to deteriorate after a mark of Kaposi’s sarcoma grew on his arm, one of the first symptoms.
Despite his condition, the singer fought the disease, but continued his musical career and defended the rights of gay people, which is also discussed in the documentary film “Freddie Mercury, the last act”.
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The last days of Freddie Mercury
After he was diagnosed with AIDS, the author of songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody” avoided revealing his condition to the public, and his bandmates were the first to find out.
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His health took a sudden turn for the worse and his family was made clear how bad it was, as Freddie Mercury was barely able to stand up, his eyesight was failing and he was receiving constant intravenous treatments daily.
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And, perhaps anticipating the little time he had left, he “abandoned his recorded music and retired to die in his London home,” according to RTVE.
“She decided to just take pain pills and these last two weeks she slowly drifted away,” Freestone revealed in the moving documentary.
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Finally, Freddie Mercury revealed to the press that he had HIV on November 23, 1991, the day before he fell into a coma and died in the comfort of his home.
Before that, all the members of Queen agreed that they would lie to the media until the end in order not to reveal the state of their friend’s health, thus all of them together created a larger complicity.
“For our family, for Queen, those were good times. We’ve never felt so close,” admitted Brian May and Roger Taylor.
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