In 1987, Freddy Mercury was sadly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, a disease he fought passionately for four years while maintaining his life as the lead singer and leader of Queen before dying on November 24, 1991.

That year marked not only his loss, but also a formal farewell, aware that he had little time left to live, and that is that months before, on May 30, the singer did his best to record his last and nostalgic music video with his colleagues. .

“These are the days of our lives” is the name of the single that Roger Taylor and John Deacon sang together with Mercury at Limestone Studios, and it was released on December 9, 1991 as part of the last joint album “Innuendo”.

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Production of Freddie Mercury’s music video with Queen

Freddie Mercury died at the age of 45 from HIV.

By then, Freddie Mercury’s appearance was already noticeably decrepit and it was almost impossible to hide his thinness, pale skin and difficulty walking due to the weakness and injury he had on one foot.

His condition was so bad that the British singer took breaks between shoots, so his directors Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher accelerated the filming.

Although heavy layers of makeup, the right lighting and a black and white style were the best solutions to conceal her deterioration in the video with Queen, hand in hand with cat vest designed by Diana Moseley.

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Freddie Mercury last video

During the recording, Freddie Mercury did his best to make “These are the days of our lives” a great success, and after his death, the video was released in two versions.

According to La Tercera, the most famous and dramatic version is the one in which there is a close-up of the musician’s face when he sings the line “I still love you” and then goes off-screen, a scene that in another 1999 clip was replaced by Mercury hooking Brian May , as the clip fades out.

“Looking at it now, there are a lot of things in ‘Days Of Our Lives’ that indicate Freddie was kind of saying goodbye,” Brian May commented, according to A Queen of Magic.

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