Freddie Mercury's HIV Diagnosis – Some Insight – 1985 to 1987

Do you know what the "funny" thing is ??? Mary Austin mentioned the year when Freddie learned he is maybe HIV positive...and it`s not 1987. Seems like everyone has forgotten about her little statement from the early 90`s.

[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]

Do you know what the "funny" thing is ??? Mary Austin mentioned the year when Freddie learned he is maybe HIV positive...and it`s not 1987.[/QUOTE]

another non-fact. i rest my case.

"maybe" is not a measurable fact - i "maybe" king of Ireland (i'm not)

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]

Do you know what the "funny" thing is ??? Mary Austin mentioned the year when Freddie learned he is maybe HIV positive...and it`s not 1987.[/QUOTE]

another non-fact. i rest my case.

"maybe" is not a measurable fact - i "maybe" king of Ireland (i'm not)[/QUOTE]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0171x1k

In this interview from Nov 2011, Mary Austin mentions at about the 23 minute mark that Freddie knew on the last tour.

another fact. i rest my case.

I think you,re ALL fucked in the head, you all sit here ang give your worthless 2 cents on when Freddie got sick and when he knew it, He DID have an HIV test in 1985 and it was clean, and you all sit here, basically tarnishing this man's memory and legacy by suggesting he knew he was positive and basically just kept fucking Jim Hutton without saying a word, just because the man says "I'm tired of touring" don't mean SHIT, have any of you lot lizards ever thought that just maybe Freddie was sick of touring by 1986??? like Jesus he'd been on the road for how many years world wide?? by then for about 15 years, I WILL NEVER BELIEVE THAT FREDDIE KNEW HE WAS SICK AND SAID "oh well fuck it, I'm still going to get my kicks" NEVER so all you fucking detectives with your bullshit theories and wild imaginations, take a long walk off a short peer

Your expletive-filled invective changed my mind. Kudos!

But seriously, the man lived to perform. There was nothing more he enjoyed than being in front of people, singing. If he was tired of touring, certainly it would have showed throughout the Magic Tour – but it didn't.

It may not have been the tour as much as it was Queen itself. It seems to me that they were ready to do things outside of the group perhaps permanently after "A Day At The Races". Wasn't 1977 when they all started working on solo music even though it all remains in the archives?

Only Roger did anything solo in '77. Freddie and Brian didn't do anything solo until '83. And even then, there was no talk of breaking up the band to become solo stars; Roger did it out of frustration for having only one (or two) songs per album, and Brian and Freddie did it to explore other, less Queen-like avenues. All four always maintained that the whole was greater than the sum of the parts, and Freddie said something like how stupid it would be to form a new band at 40.

Wow you people have too much time on your hands. They made mediocre music in the mid 80s I don't break down fantasies about when Freddie found out he had AIDS

[QUOTE] [b]Lord Gaga wrote:[/b]

Only Roger did anything solo in '77. Freddie and Brian didn't do anything solo until '83. And even then, there was no talk of breaking up the band to become solo stars; Roger did it out of frustration for having only one (or two) songs per album, and Brian and Freddie did it to explore other, less Queen-like avenues. All four always maintained that the whole was greater than the sum of the parts, and Freddie said something like how stupid it would be to form a new band at 40.[/QUOTE]

Ironic Brian wanting to explore less Queen-like adventures, of all the solo work his was the most Queen-like.

It's hardly f*cking astounding is it that there's never been a cure for cancer, aids, and half the other known illnesses which are responsible for millions of deaths, because these f*cking doctors/experts and scientists appear to be lurking around QZone spouting sh*t - rather than doing the jobs they're paid to do. :-)

Just because they said those things in public does not mean that they meant them. I would point to the interview with Freddie on the music home video d.v.d. "On Fire: At The Bowl" where Freddie seems rather discontent in some ways if not hinting he's had enough of Queen.

I thought the three of them worked on solo songs in 1977, 1978, and 1979 did they not?

This thread absolutely sucks.

[QUOTE] [b]Caviar and Cigarettes wrote:[/b]

This thread absolutely sucks.[/QUOTE]

Just don't answer it, that's all.

Freddie knew he had hiv all the way back to -84. He had the first symptoms during 84-85 In munich with Barbara who described he might fall suddenly ill with no apparent reason, he had trush in his throat the called "the mushroom" that kept on coming and going at first untill it persisted. He had sudden cough attacks.

His doctors voted against his performing in Live aid for having serious throat infection, the same thing that appeared in -84 first time. Barbara used to hide his KS spots prior his public appearances.

Winnie died in Hospital where Barbara took him after he had lost his mind already and was deteoriating physically so he negletted on feeding his cat.

[QUOTE] [b]Sicmot wrote:[/b]
Freddie knew he had hiv all the way back to -84.
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A lot of people will say that it`s not true and that he got it at around the time of the "Magic Tour" however, during Live Aid you can see something under his arm (I believe it`s his left arm) which is a bruise basically, so well... I`m not saying that it IS a symptom of HIV but in what other way would you get a big purple/black bruise there?...

I think he knew around Live Aid, definitly.