Date for Freddie photo (1987/88 or 1990?)

Came across the attached photo (paparazzi one I think) - can anyone date it? It was labelled 1990, but looks to me like 87/88.

The other guy looks like Terry Giddings.

Looks like 87 / 88 to me as well.

Looks like 87/88 too me too; it also looks like it was taken during Freddie's 'labourer in a garden centre/hod carrier on a building site' phase too!

I'd say 1988. He looks a bit thinner than in 1987.

cmsdrums wrote:

Looks like 87/88 too me too; it also looks like it was taken during Freddie's 'labourer in a garden centre/hod carrier on a building site' phase too!

Haha, yeah. He is dressed so untypically Freddie.

hard working Freddie.

Great picture, Freddie looks pretty badass in that cap (Freddie ALWAYS looks badass, but you get the picture...). Another thing; Freddie loved his white shoes! He wore them during the Barcelona Sessions and in the Scandal-video.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/ef/5b/a7/ef5ba72a8b324b2babe3f6a4ca3e3770.jpg
http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/1713531/600full-freddie-mercury.jpg

I read that Freddie wore insulation shoes though.

here
https://queenphotos.wordpress.com/f1990-1991/
and here
https://queenphotos.wordpress.com/f1986-1989/

I think 1988 also..Its not 1987 cos he used steroids and loked chubby like you se in Great Pretender interviw by the jukebox.
In that time i think he started use kemo therapy and stoped using steroids..so that and AZT(killer drug) made him thinner by the years.

Kacio wrote:

here
https://queenphotos.wordpress.com/f1990-1991/
and here
https://queenphotos.wordpress.com/f1986-1989/

Wow, great photos - so many I'd never seen!

I really like the ones with megafan Isabelle Osman - I wonder what she's up to now. A Google search on her only turns up her pics with Freddie!

And this one is just lovely: https://queenphotos.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/freddie-and-the-london-cast-of-blues-in-the-night/freddie-with-cast-of-blues-in-the-night-1988/.

Mr.Mouth wrote:

I think 1988 also..Its not 1987 cos he used steroids and loked chubby like you se in Great Pretender interviw by the jukebox.
In that time i think he started use kemo therapy and stoped using steroids..so that and AZT(killer drug) made him thinner by the years.

I agree on the date Mr.Mouth.

Mr.Mouth wrote: I think 1988 also..Its not 1987 cos he used steroids and loked chubby like you se in Great Pretender interviw by the jukebox.
In that time i think he started use kemo therapy and stoped using steroids..so that and AZT(killer drug) made him thinner by the years.

Why would he have been using steroids during that interview as he hadn't been even diagnosed yet? At least that's what the official story tells us.

Biggus Dickus wrote:

Mr.Mouth wrote: I think 1988 also..Its not 1987 cos he used steroids and loked chubby like you se in Great Pretender interviw by the jukebox.
In that time i think he started use kemo therapy and stoped using steroids..so that and AZT(killer drug) made him thinner by the years.

Why would he have been using steroids during that interview as he hadn't been even diagnosed yet? At least that's what the official story tells us.

He knew he was ill in 1986 - Mary Austin confirmed that he knew Knebworth was to be his last show.

tomchristie22 wrote:

Biggus Dickus wrote:

Mr.Mouth wrote: I think 1988 also..Its not 1987 cos he used steroids and loked chubby like you se in Great Pretender interviw by the jukebox.
In that time i think he started use kemo therapy and stoped using steroids..so that and AZT(killer drug) made him thinner by the years.

Why would he have been using steroids during that interview as he hadn't been even diagnosed yet? At least that's what the official story tells us.

He knew he was ill in 1986 - Mary Austin confirmed that he knew Knebworth was to be his last show.

Yup. Maybe he did some research himself on how to tackle the disease. A doctor wouldn't have given the advice to take steroids before he was diagnosed.