When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny Everett...

First of all.. how many of you have seen the whole documentary?...

Secondly.. to those eternal riddles.. how Freddie got the disease.. I think it explains it very credible.. The most promiscuous one of those four "friends" brought it from New York gay clubs and most likely infected the others..

What's unsure to me is.. If Kenny died in -94
when there were already dual-regimen Antiviral therapies for hiv.. how couldnt he prolong his life until three regimen therapies.. well.. theres possibly several reasons to it.. first could be that he didnt care and the second that it wasnt of any good for him..

Some thoughts there..

I watched that. I saw the last part of it last night, and I thought it was good. I think it was organized well, and it really showed the events that happened clearly.

I haven't seen it... can anyone give me details as to what was documented in this? Thanks!! :-)

Still have it on tape. Haven't watched the whole thing since it aired. But I did catch the last 20mins recently. Good docu because it focused on something part of Queen/Freddie, but had an entirely different view for us to look into. Something different. I'll have to watch it again, soon.

Peace,
Adam.

I downloaded it from Mercury Paradise, (http://www.mercuryparadise.com/) but now only the 4th part is up.

Eventually I will put the other parts online again. Just have to spread those things due to heavy download.

Thanks Rien - looking forward to the next parts! :)

Yes, My greatest gratitude to Rien for fulfilling my requests! :)

I now have all the three parts downloaded, got the fourth part last night also.. Of some reason it played better when I watched it online than off line..

Its basicly about Kenny and Freddie and Freddie And Kenny, and Kenny's friends and Freddie's friends telling about them together and separately.. There's MAry and there's Jim Hutton.. and some not so well-known friends of Kenny..

KEnny seems to have meaned much more than just being one open minded Dj. But it's damn good document where they focuses on the very essential of those both men..

I have the entire documentary on tape and it states that Kenny and Freddie had affairs with both Kenny's lover Nicolai and his on-again off-again boy friend Pepe. Lee Everett Kenny's wife found out that Nicolai was HIV+ and told Kenny to get tested. Lee Everett was a good friend to FM as well and probably past word onto him. Kenny was terrified to get tested and put it off (as did FM).

I also know from a very reliable source who is a personal friend of mine and had known both Freddie and Kenny and their boyfriends (including Jim Hutton) that that did not stop them from going out to clubs even if after they learned of the HIV status of one in their party. Which is called "denial"!


Sad.

Kriz :o(

One of the most pointless docs I have ever seen.

It's dreadful.

AVOID!

Why do you say pointless?

Yes.. why??.. is it so hard for you to believe in it instead of denying the very obvious.. the facts.. how it really happened after all these yrs of speculations??

Or then youre just so young and ignorant.. and you want to keep it all still as a mystery..

What makes me sad.. is that Freddie really didn't give a damn about the obvious risk he proned himself by being in contact with this "positive friend in the party".

I think the joyride- gear must have blurred his mind.. and given him the feeling of being untouchable by the virus.. to not get the disease no matter if one of his friends had it.. Man, how reckless behavior that is.. Ok, it was only couple of ( 1-2 yrs ) since the virus got into the public knowledge. But still they must have been aware it was lethal and incurable..

So it all makes sence now.. the document pinpoints you the exact time period of infection..

I assume it was 84 (when nikolai contracted it and shortly within couple of month mostly after it had passed from him thru Kenny to Freddie and finally? to Jim..)-85...In his interview around Mr.Badguy he said when asked if he would have done anything any other way in his life.. he says he would do it all over again.. "just slightly differently.." and if he doesnt mean the above, what then?.. So he knew it already in -85 he had got it. Thats why he was already in rejection to go all the way of touring (Magic tour next year) in the scale it was first planned.

What's more.. Jim Hutton got it the same year..
Of some reason his system managed better with the deadly virus than Freddie's..thus, being alive today.
I guess it was because he didnt harm his body the same way as Freddie did by partying exessively and snoring the coke long after the knowledge.. which is very harmful to one's immunity system.. it really diminishes effectively the white cell quantity and reversively increases the quantity of virus virions.

In those years it was very frightening because alot of gay men who had been exposed to the virus never even knew they passed it to their lovers. FM was unfortunately one of those who was in denial or too high on drugs to care (which IMHO is even a sadder situation).

When was this Documentary on, and in what country? Also when channel? I know of nothing like this being on recently in the states.