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

The words if I remember correctly reading were written by Freddie, Peter Straker, and maybe a bit of assistance from Peter Freestone if I remember correctly, who was basically staying up for a good chunk of a night trying to think up one-liners for the song. From what i recall, i read something that said it had to do with the dimentia, which sounds kinda garbage to me. Like it was said before, Freddie was just trying to craft a quality song, in which he did :)

I`ve read an article about that years ago ( not Queen related), like every part of the body the brain needs protection by the immune system. If someone like Freddie for example had full blown Aids a "fungal infestation" of the brain is a possible complication. the patient is able to live on ( physically) but his mind/ charakter will dissapear piece by piece....assumingly one of the reasons why he dropped his AZT medication in the last weeks. He simply wants to die quick.
So yes it`s a admissible hypothesis that "I`am going slightly mad" is about the problems he had to deal with.

You know sometimes you see a thread title that is horrific, but you click on it because you are human and curious... then wish you hadn't...


that.

Well. At least it led to a DISCUSSION of the notion. No point griping about it.



Geez. I USED to think Mr Bean was kinda funny

Its a possibility, however the only time I've ever heard this mentioned was by Cleo Rocos on that Freddie/Kenny Everette documentary. But then again, I never believed for a second her story concerning FM/Everette/Diana going clubbing. According to Hutton, when FM and Kenny were in the same club,he observed,they never spoke to each other, and Freestone states that Everette and Freddie never spoke after 1980...if you believed that documentary, Kenny was a frequent visitor to Garden Lodge until the very end.So I take anything that Cleo Rocos says with a pinch of salt...

Yeah, that's it was Cleo Rocos who said that Freddie told her it was about Aids-related dementia.

All this discussion got me thinking about something which we all know, but sometimes don't really quite realise the seriousness of - how HIV/AIDS was such a horrible, horrible illness in the 80s and early 90s.

We really can't begin to understand what those AIDS sufferers went through in the days before the anti-retroviral cocktail drugs were developed. I've come to understand just what a tasteless habit it is for us on QZ to speculate and ruminate over the details of Freddie's illness (I am guilty of this as well). This includes a relatively recent thread on whether Freddie was a "bad man" for potentially spreading his disease.

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

All this discussion got me thinking about something which we all know, but sometimes don't really quite realise the seriousness of - how HIV/AIDS was such a horrible, horrible illness in the 80s and early 90s.

We really can't begin to understand what those AIDS sufferers went through in the days before the anti-retroviral cocktail drugs were developed. I've come to understand just what a tasteless habit it is for us on QZ to speculate and ruminate over the details of Freddie's illness (I am guilty of this as well). This includes a relatively recent thread on whether Freddie was a "bad man" for potentially spreading his disease.[/QUOTE]

Stop being a sissy. Aids was part of Freddie whether we like it or not. The guy is dead. Yes it's sad, but I'm sick and tired that whenever we talked about his illness people get so sensible and offended. It's like Freddie is a part of them and it's sick. Anyway, it's not like Kashmira or Jer come on the forum to read the threads...The only thing that is not of our business is Freddie being gay and what he did in his sexual life. Like most men at that time, Freddie didn't take Aids seriously, but he was not the only one and people didn't know the seriousness of that horrible disease...

[QUOTE] [b]Costa86 wrote:[/b]
I've come to understand just what a tasteless habit it is for us on QZ to speculate and ruminate over the details of Freddie's illness (I am guilty of this as well). This includes a relatively recent thread on whether Freddie was a "bad man" for potentially spreading his disease.[/QUOTE]

One or two of us have been saying that on Queenzone for a long time. There are a lot of Aids-junkies on QZ who always are drawn to questions about "Freddie's last ..." whatever. It's almost obsessive. For the vast majority of his life, Fred was known mainly for being a great singer and composer. Towards the end, he was known mainly for having Aids. Ironically, while veryone else has "moved on" it's mainly Queen fans who still obsess over his illnes and death.

I would say that though this thread is different and questions about how his illness may have affected his songwriting aren't voyeuristic, obsessive, morbid etc.

Hmmm... Good to see some degree of discussion in this forum. However, doesn't Jim Hutton's book mention this very same thing? I thought this story was widely regarded as truth.

[QUOTE] [b]Stelios wrote:[/b]

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

Short attention span
Trouble remembering
Poor judgment

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I know this is crass, but, especially for those who really understand Queen history...

These are what led Freddie to the crowd who infected him with AIDS to begin with, too.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Stelios wrote:[/b]

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

Short attention span
Trouble remembering
Poor judgment

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I know this is crass, but, especially for those who really understand Queen history...

These are what led Freddie to the crowd who infected him with AIDS to begin with, too.
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Yeah, and those were brought on by whatever drug he was using. Hell, I understand him. If I were gay and a megastar, I'd have done the same. That's why I don't judge the man.

no, i don't think so. it is easy to link any of his last songs with aids but i don't believe that is the case with i am going slighty mad. of course that's just my opinion and the way i like to see that song.

Stelious, the shilling thing is a term in England which is 'You are not a full shilling'. Which means you are not very clever.