So,Fred's "I'm not going to be doing this forever.."was only told to John?

I thought the Magic Tour 86 Mercury's remark:
"I'm not going to be doing this forever. This is probably the last time." was towards all the band.
Seems he only "confessed" to Deacon according to this (end of paragraph 3)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/queens-tragic-rhapsody-20140707?page=4

That sais something, if true.

I seem to recall Brian saying he heard Freddie say it.

It was of the Brian/Roger interview for the Wembley concert. Brian was talking about some of those icy cold comments Freddie made to the crowd being together till they fucken die... it was aimed more to all of them but directed more to john as he had a "tiff" to Freddie according to Brian possibly about some of the dates and yeah that's when Freddie slamd that comment down, which of course took all of them by surprise and of course led to the magic tour as it was I guess...??

^ Not so " icy cold comments " to my view. He blasted them with a lot of heart and humor, and more imporntanlty he prooved right.
Perhaps icy cold to the other three, living the friction behind the scenes, not knowing if they could last, (or wanting to last) , even a couple of years ahead.

"At some point, Mercury clearly reconsidered. In late 1985, he had an AIDS test – the results were negative."

So AIDS was an issue even before the Magic tour...

Stelios ^ Not so " icy cold comments " to my view. He blasted them with a lot of heart and humor, and more imporntanlty he prooved right.
Perhaps icy cold to the other three, living the friction behind the scenes, not knowing if they could last, (or wanting to last) , even a couple of years ahead.

I guess what I meant was more so in what was installed for Queen over the next four years and how he was part of queen until he died and what you have said

[QUOTE] [b]stevendabudgie wrote:[/b]

"At some point, Mercury clearly reconsidered. In late 1985, he had an AIDS test – the results were negative."

So AIDS was an issue even before the Magic tour...
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Don't take what is in that Rolling Stone article as the bible. I suspect it's more a collation of re-hashed existing information, rather than original investigative journalism.

The author claims Freddie had an "AIDS test" in 1985 - there is no such thing as an AIDS test - there are HIV tests (which in 1985 were brand new [ELISA existed by then, I'm not sure about the Western blot]).

He may or may not have had an HIV test at the time, and it possibly may have come back a false negative. But someone in a very high risk group such as he was, would have gotten multiple tests. Freddie knew, almost without a doubt he had HIV in 1985, so he'd have known that the test result was wrong.

[QUOTE] [b]fras444 wrote:[/b]

Stelios ^ Not so " icy cold comments " to my view. He blasted them with a lot of heart and humor, and more imporntanlty he prooved right.
Perhaps icy cold to the other three, living the friction behind the scenes, not knowing if they could last, (or wanting to last) , even a couple of years ahead.

I guess what I meant was more so in what was installed for Queen over the next four years and how he was part of queen until he died and what you have said[/QUOTE]

Interesting. In greek language we only refair to "icy cold" when its bad humor.
What i get from your post is "icy cold comments " in native english have more meanings when in context.

[QUOTE] [b]fras444 wrote:[/b]

Stelios ^ Not so " icy cold comments " to my view. He blasted them with a lot of heart and humor, and more imporntanlty he prooved right.
Perhaps icy cold to the other three, living the friction behind the scenes, not knowing if they could last, (or wanting to last) , even a couple of years ahead.

I guess what I meant was more so in what was installed for Queen over the next four years and how he was part of queen until he died and what you have said[/QUOTE]

Interesting. In greek language we only refair to "icy cold" when its bad humor.
What i get from your post is "icy cold comments " in native english have more meanings when in context.

[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]stevendabudgie wrote:[/b]

"At some point, Mercury clearly reconsidered. In late 1985, he had an AIDS test – the results were negative."

So AIDS was an issue even before the Magic tour...
[/QUOTE]

Don't take what is in that Rolling Stone article as the bible. I suspect it's more a collation of re-hashed existing information, rather than original investigative journalism.

The author claims Freddie had an "AIDS test" in 1985 - there is no such thing as an AIDS test - there are HIV tests (which in 1985 were brand new [ELISA existed by then, I'm not sure about the Western blot]).

He may or may not have had an HIV test at the time, and it possibly may have come back a false negative. But someone in a very high risk group such as he was, would have gotten multiple tests. Freddie knew, almost without a doubt he had HIV in 1985, so he'd have known that the test result was wrong.

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Like Frank Zappa said rock journalist are people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. They may have hit on Freddie testing negative for AIDS because in 1985 his HIV hasn't caused AIDS to develop. I think this debate may be semantics. I think of course he had HIV in 1985 so he had it in 1986 and probably knew he had some early signs that something wasn't right.

LOL - just posted a thread about the article. Figures.

Anyway:

"Don't take what is in that Rolling Stone article as the bible. I suspect it's more a collation of re-hashed existing information, rather than original investigative journalism."

I agree with this 110%.