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

His weight increased after 86.... there's interviews with him where he is kinda large for Fred in 87. Around the Great Pretender time, and when he did the video for Time. I don't think the signs really started to show until 89. Until then he was just a guy gradually putting on weight, getting a bit older... His skin looked rougher in the I want it all video - but by Breakthrough, his weight had dropped fast....

I didn't know about that. And that photo is saddening.

I think it was that he'd become quite a heavy smoker, and that's what altered his voice.

Everything I've heard has also been 87 but in the link I posted above she said he knew during the last tour and had know for 18 months so who knows.

As I recall it from what I read -  Freddie told Jim Hutton as soon as he knew he received the results in spring 87.
I can't imagine Freddie would've kept that from him. So, I imagine she meant he knew - as in his worst fears. But he didn't absolutely know.

I think Freddie showed first signs of aids in 1986. When you look closely you can recognize a red spot on the upper edge of his front right, in the middle just under the hairline.
Time Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EMRjZi6Kxk

This lesion can also be seen in other interviews from 1986

[QUOTE] [b]jenss85 wrote:[/b]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzsnli7DjY
according to this interview with Mary, he knew much earlier than originally thought[/QUOTE]

That's pretty freaky...

I know this thread is kind of old but I have read it so many times and I've finally signed up for this website and I want to leave a comment.

someone commented: "good detective work"
Well I don't agree, This isn't detective work at all, It's someone's theory, and I won't say it's not a good theory because it is, but there are some things that I just don't agree with. Like the comment about the elisa test not being readily available, come on man, we're talking about Freddie Mercury, who could afford ANYTHING his little heart desired, Including any kind of HIV test that was available anywhere in the world at that time, In Hutton's book he says he gave Freddie an ultimatum: shape up or he's shipping out, and shortly after that Freddie decided to take Jim up on that and moved back to London, Now the theory could be true, that he knew what he was facing, or he simply could have wanted to make his new lover happy.
The first Elisa tests were about 99.95% accurate, and they probably would have told him to retest in about 3 or 4 months to be sure, I do not really give the people that were his friends in Germany (who are all pretty much now dead) to much faith, for one most of them can't be interviewed again because they're dead, and 2, They were most likely pissed off and hurt by the way Freddie just kinda cut and run back to London, So their words could be out of anger, I'm not saying this is the case, But you never know. Nobody can be 100% sure what really happened accept for Freddie and he's not here to tell us.

This was a good post dont get me wrong, I just wanted to add some other possibility's to the conversation, Because we do not know 100% what were all the reasons and facts we cannot speculate either way how it happened, And I for one will not soil someone's good name with hearsay evidence that is almost 30 years old, It could have went either way here Jim may have gave it to Freddie or the other way around, It doesn't matter much now, all that really matter is that Jim and Freddie both eventually found out and decided to stick together till the end, That's what counts here.

thank you.

you said after Rock's death he suddenly returned to London and changed his lifestyle,do you think they were somehow related to each other in the U.S. days of Freddiethis question is badly jumping up and down in my mind,both of these men are my very fave.Do you mean they had had a mutual partner or even more ,they had been partners in the past?Rock was more than twenty years older than Freddie but the way you say lots of doubts come to my mind,and I know the news about Rock came not in the media just the day he passed away,he himself announced it earlier,so on the other hand I guess if the had something in common which might cause Freddie to get seriously worried he would left everything possibly dangeous the day Rock
talked about his health and Aids,but my doubts are still strong,what is your point of view?

Freddy Mercury knew he had aids since 1989 and died 2 years later.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Were you there when he found out?

[QUOTE] [b]Divacc wrote:[/b]

Freddy Mercury knew he had aids since 1989 and died 2 years later. [/QUOTE]

well done on the accuracy of the last 5 words of your statement. pity the first 8 words are not so.

HIV POSITIVE IS THE DIAGNOSIS THE DIAGNOSIS IS NOT AIDS-

AIDS IS MERELY THE SYMPTOM OF HIV DRUGS
AIDS BEING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM CAUSED BY AGENTS OF POISON SUCH AS AZT
A DRUG BANNED BY THE CALIFORNIAN ENVIROMENT AGENCY FROM WASTE WATER, AS IT IS KNOWN TO BE CANCER CAUSING