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I was told once that if i kept doing a certain activity that I'd go blind, thank god that wasn't true.
Freddie wasn't blind last few years for sure!!!
He didn't wear dark glasses in Invisible man videp because he was blind! They recorded few videos after Invisible man and he appears without glasses and seems that he could see vey well! If he was blind for few years, we would know that like everything else in his life (private or not). In Jim Hutton's book he said that they were often watching television in Freddie's last moments. This was stupid question but if you weren't sure, now I think these are good proofs.
He didn't wear dark glasses in Invisible man videp because he was blind! They recorded few videos after Invisible man and he appears without glasses and seems that he could see vey well! If he was blind for few years, we would know that like everything else in his life (private or not). In Jim Hutton's book he said that they were often watching television in Freddie's last moments. This was stupid question but if you weren't sure, now I think these are good proofs.
And by the way take a look at It's A Hard Life video - how many eyes are on Freddie's outfit! It probably means something... He knew he'd be blind in 1991!
If seriously: no, he wasn't. He draw pictures in Montreux and Garden Lodge in 1991 - it's not something you'd do if you're blind.
There are amazing things people have done when they are blind or can't hear... like drawing pictures and composing great songs.. but Freddie wasn't... i think :)
Yes, of course there are/were such people, but I don't think Freddie was one of them. He probably had some other things to do in his last days instead of learning how to draw if you're blind :)
From a Peter Freestone interview:
"It wasn’t until about eight months before he died that we went to Phillip’s, the auctioneers, and he fell down some marble steps because he was going blind. I had to help him up and
that was when it hit home and I realised he wouldn’t be with us forever.”
I think he shot some videos after that, didn't he? His losing sight was not stopping him...Unfortunately, AIDS did.
Fairy
"It wasn’t until about eight months before he died that we went to Phillip’s, the auctioneers, and he fell down some marble steps because he was going blind. I had to help him up and
that was when it hit home and I realised he wouldn’t be with us forever.”
I think he shot some videos after that, didn't he? His losing sight was not stopping him...Unfortunately, AIDS did.
Fairy
Don't think so O_o
On a serious note...from what I have heard and read through the years from Jim Hutton, Mary Austin, Peter Freestone, Freddie started losing his sight about the beginning of November 1991, which greatly distressed him for the obvious reason of potentially going blind...and also because he knew at that point, he felt it would keep him from being able to be productive musically...which had kept him going amd gave him the hope, strength, faith and will to live.
This was what was the final straw that promted Freddie to intentionally stop taking his AZT AIDS medication. He only took his pain killers..and sort of lost his will to go on...and at that point the AIDS spiraled swiftly and he died a few weeks later.
Exactly, well said.
Hello,
A few years before Freddie died, did AIDS turn him blind?, is that why he is wearing Glasses in the Invisible Man Video? did he only loose his eyesight temporarily, as at the Brit Awards 1990, He looked like he had a vision
lol, this post almost made me bust a gut on a lonely saturday night where my 22 yr old ass should be livin' it up.... taking the fact he had glasses on in the video literal is hilarious and whats even funnier is thinking those big funky glasses where prescription... no offense, i was just laughing i've been known to ask some questions myself, like if john deacons voice was on need your loving tonight and my analysis of we will rock you was way off but i think nhm set everything straight on that one.
This is so stupid. Get a life you losers.
Hello,
A few years before Freddie died, did AIDS turn him blind?, is that why he is wearing Glasses in the Invisible Man Video? did he only loose his eyesight temporarily, as at the Brit Awards 1990, He looked like he had a vision
No,my dear,no.Freddie was losing just his eyesight because of AIDS-according to Mary Austin-but he was never blind
I thought he was at the very end just before he died...
I thought he was at the very end just before he died...
Exactly.That's why he stopped his meditation.He was very tired of the whole thing....
lol, i love queenzone lol. as far as i know he never lost his sight completely. before he went off his azt he was bed ridden most of the time, getting up in the morning for tea and going back for the rest of the day. you can see what kind of life that was and that should put you in the mindset. he had full blown aids, that was as good as life was gonna get for him. it wouldve been a slow painful decline from that already low staying on it, so why would he. it wouldve been the same end result, his body was breaking down. maybe taking the meds was the cowards way out because he went off them and decided to face everything like a man, full on. good for freddie.