Would Freddie have been fit enough to tour in 1989 ?

John.Simon wrote:
Some scenes were filmed clip Headlong in November and December 1990.
Freddie was wearing a yellow sweater, March / April 1991 it is all

Where is your info from? I've heard the yellow sweater scenes were filmed in January 1991. The video had been finished by that time. It couldn't be filmed March/April 1991.

John Simon wrote:
Freddie was wearing a yellow sweater, March / April 1991 it is all

What, no pants?

Micrówave wrote:

John Simon wrote: Freddie was wearing a yellow sweater, March / April 1991 it is all

What, no pants?

ZING!! ;)

These days a lot of big bands do shows in theaters in a sort of unplugged way.

If only this concept would have been around back then I think probably they could have done a small European tour..

Like the VH1 Storytellers series..

Would have been awesome

one word: No.

Fairy wrote:
I believe he was not fit to tour for a simple reason: I think that if he had been fit enough he would have toured.

no. no. no. and NO again
"fit" to tour doesn't come into consideration.
think it through....even if and it's a huge "IF", he'd taken medication and it had kept HIV in check and Freddie had felt fit enough to work properly there is still a huge difference between being fit and undertaking a world tour

no matter how fit he may have been - a world tour would've killed him. the very nature of HIV is that many uncomplicated viruses and diseases that healthy people contract everyday without serious effect, would likely have a major impact on someone with HIV...Freddie would NEVER have taken that risk - had he managed to take medicine that controlled his health better

I think that he might have been up to it but decided that he had better preserve his health.

After he died someone suggested that his weight gain for The Miracle could have been down to medication. That made sense to me in hindsight.

Could someone very kindly point me to where I can download or watch the Innuendo EPK

A show was planned, not a tour, as such. They were going to play a small number of key cites, similar to what Pink Floyd did with the Wall.

The venues were going to be called The Miracle Pavillion, for the night.

I believe venues were discussed but it never got beyond the planning stage.

A reflection of Freddie's condition maybe. . . .

Regor wrote:
For years I also thought "why didn't they go on a last tour in '89, he looked so good". He even gained some weight as it seemed from '87 to '89.
But in the years after his death all the details of the lesions and the kaposi sarcoma which had already afflicted his body during that period were published. Also, in the video of "Scandal", especially in the behind-the-scenes footage he looks already really sick. So absolutely no possibility for a Tour.

That was no weight. Those were the side-effect of the medicines he took.

well I think he was already pretty tired of touring after The Magic Tour! but no, he wouldn't have been fit for '89 tour. once you have a full-blown AIDS, it automatically attacks your immune system and there's no way you can help it or feel better, your body is only getting worse each day.

and that "chubby" period that Freddie had circa 1987 was no weight. those were corticosteroids he took which make you put on a lot of weight in no time.

A healthy 43 year old man would have trouble doing what Freddie did let alone someone with AIDS. He might have been able to do one show with limited movement and sitting at a piano most of the time. But that wasn't Freddie. If he couldn't dance around the stage like crazy I couldn't see him doing a show. Even in "Those are the days of our lives" you can tell he wants to dance. The guy can barely stand and he is trying to move to the music.

So with corticosteroids he tried to boost his immune response and absolute cd4 (white cell) number.. which unfortunately works the opposite way. It only gives hiv more food to consume and stressing immune system on the verge of breakdown. I wonder why he gave up the blood transfusions. It would make sence you can cope a long time by replacing your circulating blood. replacing the lost white cells and flushing out the hiv particles.

In hindsight we're quite fortunate that we even got the Magic tour. Reading about it, it seems as if Freddie put off getting tested for a long, long time. If he had got tested earlier than he did there may not have been a Magic tour even. If he had got tested in 1986 he would have almost certainly have tested positive. From that stand point, even if he wasn't to become sick for another year or two, embarking in a gruelling tour would have been just out of the question.

Lot of Aids junkies on Queenzone.