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I have it only in Czech. It's quite impossible to get one in English.
How about contacting Queen fanclub and ask for reprint? It is an official Queen publication isn't it? Maybe they could consider it after BoRhap movie.[/good idea.
Jim's book was very good, I get the feeling that they really loved each other. But there were some things that were a bit sensationalised, I think.
mariah yes some say that about Jim's book. I'm not totally sure which bits have been as I didn't get that feeling when I read it. I was def left with the feeling that Jim loved Freddie very much
^ I think the rows they had were exaggerated a bit, it was co written with a journalist after all
yes that is possible although I believe that had rows, especially during the time Freddie was messing him around with other men. The book has him either leaving of his own accord or Freddie passing on a message for him to leave. In a few interviews Jim gave, he mentions the rows but not the moving out or being thrown out part. This is with regards to their early ones, not the one in 1990.
I believe that they happened, I just think that some were a bit exaggerated to make everything more interesting :D Though, Jim deserves every bit of respect for putting up with Freddie's antics and staying with him till his death. I can't believe that there are so many people who hate on him...
And I've read bits of "Freddie Mercury: His Life In His Own Words" and saw some interesting quotes what Freddie said about AIDS, some of these I'm seeing for the first time
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well, this site is truly a mess
it's not a good site, it's old lol .
Ms. Carey those quotes are from an interview with David Wigg in 1987 after Freddie was diagnosed. I’ve heard audio of some of this on youtube, but there is some interesting material here I haven’t heard before. If I’m not mistaken the full interview is on the Freddie Mercury box set which is now OOP.
Well, I recognize some of it word for word. The rest I’m presuming is from the interview and not creative writing.
An attempt at clickable links:
http://m.imgur.com/An5SVrx
http://m.imgur.com/NXCf8lG
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/WSzmkoR
The TV ads he refers to would be from the “Don’t Die of Ignorance” Campaign. Those can be found on youtube if anyone is curious.
http://m.imgur.com/yP84ABG
Thank you, Galileo :) here is another quote I have never seen - https://i.imgur.com/XkU6jnr.jpg It's very sad
I’m not familiar with this website. What is the source of these quotes? When I recognize wording I’ve heard before in Freddie’s voice, that’s one thing. But this one is clearly pre-diagnosis, and is not attached to anything I’ve heard before. How do we know these are Freddie’s words and not fan fic?
After all you said on another thread that there was no HIV testing before 1985, and that is BS. So I already know you are not always so careful about your sources.
There was limited testing in 1983 starting in France and by 1984 there was more widespread testing as well as numerous studies publishing the results of testing. The 1985 date is when the test was licensed, specifically for cleaning up the blood supply.
Not trying to be mean, just that so many people have just made stuff up about Freddie that we like to be careful of our sources around here. We wouldn’t want you to be duped by someone.
^As I said, it's from that book by Greg Brooks - "Freddie Mercury: His Life in His Own Words" (it's just his own words told in interviews). Well yeah, but they were just testing and the first test was licensed in 1985, so it's very very very unlikely that Freddie would have known that he was HIV positive in 1984 and told that to a ****ing journalist, when HIV wasn't even called HIV untill 1986. https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/history/hiv-and-aids-timeline
It was variously called HTLV III, LAV or ARV, but now when one refers to the time before the name HIV was agreed upon, everyone says HIV. No one says “the virus now known as HIV but then known as HTLVIII/LAV”. It’s common practice to speak of HIV testing in ‘84 or ‘85, even though the kits said something different on the label. Try searching HIV in pubmed and you’ll pull up papers before 1986.
Oh, I doubt he was tested in 1984 and I don’t believe he would have told David Wigg and no one else. I think Wigg is lying. I’m just saying the test existed. Freddie’s doctor Graeme Moyle said this in the horrible movie “Who Wants to Live Forever”. Bad movie, but great interview with Dr. Moyle, although broken into pieces. But the nomenclature thing is just a distraction.
Anyway. . . I was asking when the quote that refers to the shower is from and who did the interview. Is there a year for that from the book?
