[URL=http://pictures.queenzone.org//Queen/queen-1989_41120022071.jpg][IMG]http://pictures.queenzone.org//Queen/queen-1989_41120022071.jpg[/IMG][/URL] If I wasn't a Queen fan, I wouldn't have known if he was sick with AIDS. He looks very healthy here. [/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
Micrówave · Member since
There's a little piece of AIDS on his chin. You have to look really close, though.
I thought it was a piece of taco meat at first.
john bodega · Member since
(shrugs) to me it just looks like he went a little heavy on the makeup. 20 years of hindsight means we now know the reason why, but at the time I wouldn't have looked at that and said "That man looks ill".
Gregsynth · Member since
I do know that Freddie did have some spots removed from his face. He used makeup, then the beard to hide the blemishes. If anything, apart from the beard, he looks a bit fatter in the face. If you simply switched his beard out for his mustache, he's back to his "pre-AIDS" self. He looked great for all the Miracle-Era videos.
mike hunt · Member since
fred looks a bit chubby in the miracle photo, not ill at all. The video's for that album he looks much thinner, but still healthy. He had the light beard thing going. It wasn't until 1990 that he started to looked really ill.
ParisNair · Member since
Compare this with 1986 and you know something is amiss.
It still shocks me how a man who looked at his absolute peak healthwise just 3-4 years earlier falls so sick so fast that life just goes out of his body.
pittrek · Member since
I'm just re-posting the image :
Well he doesn't look much healthy to me :( He looks strange, but not like a man with a deadly disease
Angeline · Member since
His eyes are deadened. He looks a lot less attractive but not 'dying'.
john bodega · Member since
I think if anyone looks like they have AIDS in this, it's Brian. Look at him! That's one grim mother fucker.
Martin Packer · Member since
Three things:
1) His eyes look pained. Whether psychologically or physically.
2) I'm told some of the anti-AIDS drugs have an effect on cheek shape.
3) I think he may well have attempted to bulk up, knowing he'd lose a lot of weight in the end.
I don't particularly like to think about this stuff. And I recall being totally fooled at that time. But with the benefit of hindsight here we are.
Gregsynth · Member since
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[b]mike hunt wrote: [/b]
fred looks a bit chubby in the miracle photo, not ill at all. The video's for that album he looks much thinner, but still healthy. He had the light beard thing going. It wasn't until 1990 that he started to looked really ill.[/QUOTE]
When DID he start losing the weight? I mean, I watched "I Want It All" and he does look a bit swollen up. My guess was sometime between late '89 to early '90 because if you compare him from any of the Miracle-era videos to a video when Queen accepted the "Top Band of The 80's" reward, he's starting to look gaunt in the face.
Here's Freddie from 1989 (On shoot of "The Miracle)"
I don't know how to post images right on a post, but it looks like he started "looking" sick at the end of '89.
theCro · Member since
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[b]Zebonka12 wrote: [/b]
I think if anyone looks like they have AIDS in this, it's Brian. Look at him! That's one grim mother fucker.[/QUOTE]
as i told you in previous thread, when you offended Brian, to take you pills, i'm now telling you, as advice: you should get psychiatric help, as soon as possible.
GratefulFan · Member since
The Headlong video was remarkable for it's record of Freddie's physical decline over just a few short months. The footage was shot from fall '90 into early '91 and you can clearly see how much more gaunt and sick looking he was in the yellow sweater parts as compared to the shirt and tie (earliest footage) and vest (waistcoat to some) shots from 1990.
