Where were you?

My mother came running up the stairs, she was uspet and crying and said she had something terrible to tell me.
I was so dumbfounded I don't believe I said anything for the next five minutes, I was one of the fans who had chosen to ignore the grim articles in the tabloids.
If I had seen but one of the pictures of his last months I would have believed it all, no doubt.

I WANT ALIVE! NOT EVEN A FETUS!!

I was very young, so I was probably pissing/shitting my self.


Same as Freddie was doing around that time


LMAO THAT WAS MEAN/FUNNY

I Got up to go to work, my brother telephoned me to put on the morning news on the TV. Talk about being gutted, I was already upset from the day before about Freddies press statement about having AIDS.
Didn't go to work, phoned in sick. Moped about all week. The only bit of release I had that day was I went to my local HMV store & bought Brian's "Driven by You" single as it was released on the same day.I didn't even care if I was seen by my boss, as I was supposed to be sick, when I went out to buy the single.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]The Fonz wrote: [/QUOTENAME]7amish? I distinctly remember hearing it on (I think) radio hauraki in the afternoon. Amybe arough 2pmish?[/QUOTE]give me a break, i was only 2!

it was a very strange thing for me
i was 11 and i didnt listen to queen at that moment, but when i heard that freddie was ill, i felt strange, i didnt know him and i almost didnt heard queen until that time
and when i heard "freddie mercury died aged 45 because of AIDS" i couldnt believe it
i thought "if i dont listen to queen music, and if i dont know freddie, so why do i care?"
months later, i bought greatest hits 2, and i started to listen to queen

if freddie were alive today, and he would die nowadays, i think that new would kill me, because i admire him
and i dont know what would happened if freddie wouldnt die...because often i ask to myself if i would started to listen to queen music, if freddie
wouldnt die
i think yes, i would listening to queen anyway

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<marquee>Queen Of Wrestling</marquee> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Learning to keep my hands out of electric sockets[/QUOTE]



Im gutted you succeeded.

I was sitting in my living room with my parents when the news flash came on. I was just flaber gasted! I could only compare this shock to when Elvis died! It was something that you didn't want to believe!

I had just got up on the Monday morning and as I was coming out of my room my sister (who is also a big queen fan) came out of hers in tears and just said 'Freddie's dead.' I was gutted.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Brian_Mays_Wig wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<marquee>Queen Of Wrestling</marquee> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Learning to keep my hands out of electric sockets[/QUOTE]



Im gutted you succeeded.[/QUOTE]

I was a quick learner

I was waiting for a bus.. just bought the morning newspaper and there it was. On frontpage..

I did manage to go to work but went home before noon 'ill'.

I went back to work after newyear. I was pretty off for a few weeks!! I still have it very bad late november..

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Brian_Mays_Wig wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I was in bed. It came on the ITV news at around 10:30pm. "Rock Star Freddie Mercury has died of AIDS". Then my folks came running up to me to see if I was ok![/QUOTE]

Are you sure about the time, it wasn't officially anounced to the world until midnight, (confirmed in Peter Freestones book) It was on the BBC radio news at midnight.

i was 3 nearly 4, so i cant remember

My wife came and got me when the newscast stated that he had AIDS. She knew I'd be distraught. His death, OTOH, didn't register with me when it happened. I was just imagining in horror how the most perfect voice I'd heard would probably be silenced by pneumonia. Some guy at work told me he was already dead sometime later.

I was sitting in Frank Hessy's guitar shop in liverpool with a mate playing beatles songs and goofing off with some Japanese tourists on the saturday when someone said Freddie had announced he had aids. Although we had long suspected it,it was still a shock and we all hung around the radio until we heard it on the news. Went out and got incredibly drunk to try and obliterate the thoughts that came alongside. I'd already seen someone in work die of Aids and it wasn't pleasant.

I was travelling back to London on the Sunday Night and heard about his death on the radio. Whether it was the effects of the previous nights drinking or just the shock I went and threw up.
All I remember of the monday is continuous Queen music on the radio and going up to Logan PLace with flowers to stand like an idiot.

Neil