Do u think I Am Going Slightly Mad is related to AIDS Dementia?

... may that be sings or fear of it, as Freddie's AIDS status was worsening.


*Dementia is a condition that leads to the loss of intellectual abilities such as memory, judgment, and abstract thinking. It can also cause changes in personality. AIDS Dementia Complex (or ADC) is a type of dementia that occurs in advanced stages of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). AIDS is a later stage of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection.

ADC leads to a diverse group of symptoms that affect your ability to function in work and life. It can be fatal. Before HIV medications called HAART were available, ADC occurred more frequently. Today, only about 10% to 15% of people with AIDS develop AIDS dementia.

What Is AIDS Dementia Complex? (ADC)

Unlike many other HIV-related problems, ADC is not caused by an opportunistic infection, which takes advantage of a weakened immune system. HIV experts say that ADC results directly from the HIV infection itself. Although HIV does not infect brain nerve cells, the virus may indirectly inflame them or kill them. This is more likely to occur as CD4 cell counts decrease to less than 200. CD4 cells are a type of immune system cell. They are also known as T-helper cells.

ADC varies greatly from person to person. Symptoms may progress quickly or slowly. It generally affects four different areas of your brain function:


Thinking abilities
Behavior
Coordination and movement
Mood


Symptoms of AIDS Dementia Complex
The signs and symptoms of ADC can be similar to other HIV-related problems, such as opportunistic infections or medication side effects. This makes it more difficult to diagnose and understand.

These are some of the first signs and symptoms of ADC:

Short attention span
Trouble remembering
Poor judgment
Slowed thinking and longer time needed to do tasks
Irritability
Unsteady gait, tremor, or trouble staying balanced
Poor hand coordination
Social withdrawal or depression

(source :http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/guide/aids-dementia-complex)

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
So, no.

I am not saying it is 100% impossible, just unlikely.
Freddie's MO all along was that a song is just a song.

I think Jim Hutton wrote about this in his book "Mercury & Me," fairly sure he indeed said it was about these effects that Freddie was suffering when he wrote the song

A few years ago on Wikipedia (Think what you want I don't give a shit) in the article about Slightly Mad, it was said that a female radio host was told by Freddie that it was about Aids related-dementia. But it disapread from the article at some point. True or false, who knows.

Without him to comment it's just speculation. I'd guess Probably a bit of both and also a defiant jest while being held "in good behavior"


The jokes in it after all.

"You're missing that one final screw."

"Not in the pink"

"Card short of a full "deck"...."shilling""

"kettle boiling over. ...I think I'm a banana tree"

Etc.

Pretty self explanatory double entendre

By the way in the phrase/idiom '" I'm not quite the shilling " i thought he was referring to the coin.

In a related to the song forum i found this:
"In times gone by taverns in seafaring towns sold rum in glasses that had graduation marks on.A full glass was a shilling, so if you ordered a drink and didnt have your glass filled up you were given strange looks as you were not the full shilling." Therefore... "not complete, something is missing.Often used to imply mental deficiency."

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A few years ago on Wikipedia (Think what you want I don't give a shit) [/QUOTE]

That is towards me? If yes its just rude for no reason....

Again AIDS related posts...
Like we dont have nothing else knew about Freddie you keep digging allways same things whitch a fan like me know for years but I rather speak about Freddie not aids Freddie.
Sorry for my language,didnt mean anything wrong ...

Yes.

Final screw: not complete OR final "lay/shag"

Not in the pink: ditto above

Shilling: I've heard it used as a verb as well and DECK. Both with sexual connotations.

Not quite sure bout the 3 wheels. Maybe there's something regional to that aside from the training wheels tricycle incomplete car thing.


The one that escaped me before someone mentioned it on this site was the term used in BODY LANGUAGE

"Lay me down for a six anytime"

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The one that escaped me before someone mentioned it on this site was the term used in BODY LANGUAGE

"Lay me down for a six anytime"
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I found that on an old queenzone post but you were part of it so you must know. Seems legit explenation...

"It's a bastardization of "hit me for six", an idiom that comes from cricket, wherein the batsman gets 6 runs for smashing the ball over the boundary without it hitting the ground.

So to be "hit for six" or, in Freddie's words "knocked down for a six" is to be metaphorically struck very hard or bowled over, to use another cricketing idiom. "

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[QUOTE] [b]RafaelSomma wrote:[/b]

A few years ago on Wikipedia (Think what you want I don't give a shit) [/QUOTE]

That is towards me? If yes its just rude for no reason....
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No it wasn't against you, I said that because sometimes when we quote Wikipedia it's like it's not serious. Sorry if I hurt you.

[QUOTE] [b]RafaelSomma wrote:[/b]

A few years ago on Wikipedia (Think what you want I don't give a shit) in the article about Slightly Mad, it was said that a female radio host was told by Freddie that it was about Aids related-dementia. But it disapread from the article at some point. True or false, who knows.[/QUOTE]

Absolutely, unquestionably false. Freddie made no statements about his illness before November 23, 1991 and was in no condition to talk to any radio host afterwards.

Jim Hutton's book makes it sound like Freddie was really enjoying himself (literally hysterically laughing his ass off with his friends) while writing the song.

Always seemed a pretty 'up' and silly track to me, much like a few of the tracks on ANATO. I love it.

Wasn't it written quite early in the life of Innuendo so likely to be before any such symptoms.

Freddie was a very clever, intelligent and educated person. I was able to write songs with cryptic and double meaning (Queen I, Queen II, SHA, The Prophet's song). So what is the main idea behind IGSM, only Freddie knows it. And he's dead.