When did Freddie get the HIV virus

I HEARD 1984 he got HIV. But Freddie's assistant said 1987 was when he found out it was AIDS. But Brian said that when they were on tour somewhere in Spain Freddie said, during abit of a row, that he wouldn't be touring forever and that the others all thought he ment he was going to die. And that must've been on the Magic tour.

Evening everybody,

the facts that were mentioned by "concert" are quite true.

Freddie did the HIV test in April 1987, and that is what Jim Hutton tells in his book.
And also true, the AIDS developped during the next month as we can see on his face and the skin, and so on.

Well, that means as written, that he must have been infected latest in 1986!

Not more - not less!

And for the Magic Tour:

they had quite much personal stress in Spain, especially in Madrid (i think they smashed almost the whole hotel room). And Freddie just knew that he highly probably must have HIV during that tour (because of the known lovers who already had died or had AIDS at this point).


Regards

1987 wasn't it?

you must not be from the U.S. because everyone knows about studio 54 (as I am correctly identifying it) chances are that freddy himself didn't even know. to try and take that up as fans is just ludicrous.

Lol. You all don't know your history or facts do you? When Freddie died in 1991 most people only lived three to four years with HIV even with medicine. It just wasn't as good as it was later on and now. As it is the medicines kept people alive longer than without anyways. When people started living as long as ten years with the medicine it was a big deal. Stuff like did not happen until the late 1990's at the earliest if I recall. Now its a big deal to be able to live with HIV for a reall long time. Of course they never say if that ones life is still cut short at all. So it is entirely misleading. (They also say that it has been discovered that those who live with HIV are still rapidly aged just the same anyways. So they look much older than they really are.) Is 50 old? 60? 70? Not in my mind by any means. It is highly unlikely that Freddie got HIV before 1986 as it just wasn't possible to live as long as he did at that time period. The early 1987 is more than likely the best answer in terms of when he got HIV. I guarantee you he did not wait many months and certainly not years before he got checked after being infected.


What I don't understand is how Munich was this big deal and or negative influence on him? I mean if you are going around having gay sex and doing drugs then what's the difference in doing it in England or Germany? Wasn't Freddie doing these things since the early days of Queen or at least by the mid 1970s? How much more "wild" can one get? Does this mean they are indicating he was with underaged boys in Munich? Or are they saying that hitting "the public showers" somehow made it more likely to be infected? I just don't get it. How assinine and misleading.

Why didn't you wear a bloody rubber, Fred? :*( Yeah, he probably knew it in the Queen I days. I mean "Keep Yourself Alive?" Of course it was about HIV!

Detour; I can't resist, sorry.

I actually had a voice student (21 years old last year) say to me that it's assumed by others his age that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is about him having AIDS, because of the "Mama, just killed a man" and "Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go." Etc.

Needless to say I educated him on the timeline.

A lot of people who see the early years of Queen for example the short promotional film (music video) for the song "Bohemian Rhapsody" they see the members of the group and Freddie Mercury with his long hair and skinny body and say, "Yep. That makes sense. I can see what he looked like with A.I.D.s. Of course in terms of what he looked like he had looked straight, per se (l.o.l.) for years before he was infected at all.

I'm certain Freddie caught that killer virus way earlier than some on here suspect...

He was really unlucky in the sense that his wildest years were exactly at the same time as the rise of this dreadful disease and this disease first spread around the gay clubs in the cities he used to visit...exactly in those years.
For example: I wouldn't be surprised if he got it in 1982.. or 1983

Wow...this thread got resurrected from the dead! If only Freddie could do the same... God?

Anyway, HIV can lie dormant in the body for years before showing itself/any symptoms. The early 80s would not surprise me at all.

But how about this? Lets not give a f*ck about his demise, let's care about the music. Deal? Cool! These topics are way too morbid imo...

With the Olympics so prevalent at the moment, I heard Greg Louganis (ex champion swimmer) live on the radio this week. He's 52, and the interviewer commented how good he looked for his age, and said he looks 10 years younger. Louganis tested positive for HIV in 1988.

The worst thing about the time which Freddie got the virus (my belief is that he found out in 86/87 but maybe was actually infected earlier) is that the medicines at the time were just not quite enough to avoid an inevitable early death sentence. If only Freddie has caught the disease a year or two later, he may well still be with us, and the disease be manageable - the timing always makes sad to think about.

Anyway, to go back to the question, he certainly knew when he was making Barcelona so had clearly already shown symptoms enough for him to know.

Well Magic Johnson and Holly Johnson both found out that they had HIV in 1991 and they are both ok, though i did read something not so long ago from Holly that he has to rest a lot because he gets tired easy

But, again, Freddie was full-blown in 1987, which leads me to believe he was probably HIV positive quite a few years before that.

Amazing he lasted as long (1991) as he did.

I always thought he got infected somewhere around 1978/1979. I mean, we all know that Freddie loved those gay clubs and in "Don't Stop Me Now" video he has a "Mineshaft" shirt which was an extremely promiscuous gay club in NYC. and we all know that the video is from 1978, right? I'm not saying he got HIV infected exactly in that club and exactly that year but the fact is that the club did close in 1985 because of AIDS scare. and people usually say that it needs about 10 years for HIV to develop into full-blown AIDS. when you do the math you realize the signs were all there by the 1988...these are just some reasons that make me think he definitely got it before the 1980s

but that's just me guessing. and everything we can ever do about it is guess

February 17th 1983, at approximately 2:15 AM GMT.