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FREDDIE LAUGHS 10 00:00:35,941 --> 00:00:37,942 Ready to go and do this? 11 00:00:39,302 --> 00:00:41,962 The '86 tour was really a high point for us. 12 00:00:42,062 --> 00:00:44,922 CROWD CHEERS 13 00:00:45,022 --> 00:00:47,323 I have nothing but great memories of that tour. 14 00:00:47,423 --> 00:00:48,443 ♪ Day-doh 15 00:00:48,543 --> 00:00:49,683 CROWD COPIES 16 00:00:49,783 --> 00:00:52,443 ♪ Dee-doh day-day-day-day-day-day-day-doh 17 00:00:52,543 --> 00:00:55,163 CROWD COPIES 18 00:00:55,263 --> 00:01:00,564 ♪ Daaaaaaaay-doh 19 00:01:00,664 --> 00:01:05,964 CROWD COPIES 20 00:01:06,064 --> 00:01:07,805 'UNDER PRESSURE' INTRO PLAYS 21 00:01:07,905 --> 00:01:10,085 CROWD CHEERS 22 00:01:10,185 --> 00:01:13,905 CROWD CLAPS IN TIME WITH BEAT 23 00:01:21,826 --> 00:01:23,526 ♪ Mmm num ba da 24 00:01:23,626 --> 00:01:25,406 ♪ Dum bum ba be 25 00:01:25,506 --> 00:01:27,586 ♪ Dum dum da ba bum bah 26 00:01:29,427 --> 00:01:32,127 ♪ Pressure pushing down on me 27 00:01:32,227 --> 00:01:35,747 ♪ Pressing down on you, no man ask for 28 00:01:37,187 --> 00:01:39,128 ♪ Ba ba beh 29 00:01:39,228 --> 00:01:40,528 ♪ Ba ba beh 30 00:01:40,628 --> 00:01:41,568 ♪ De day da 31 00:01:41,668 --> 00:01:44,448 We'd done the biggest tour ever of our lives 32 00:01:44,548 --> 00:01:45,928 and Freddie said, 33 00:01:46,028 --> 00:01:49,249 "I can't do this any more after this." And we went, "Oh." 34 00:01:49,349 --> 00:01:53,849 ♪ Watching some good friends screaming, "Let me out!" 35 00:01:53,949 --> 00:01:57,569 He didn't at that point want to do any more live shows, 36 00:01:57,669 --> 00:02:01,730 which sort of told us that there was something wrong. 37 00:02:01,830 --> 00:02:05,050 ♪ Chipping around, kick my brains around the floor 38 00:02:05,150 --> 00:02:08,130 My mom visited him more time than Dad. 39 00:02:08,230 --> 00:02:11,611 And she rang me one day and said, "I think you should ring your brother 40 00:02:11,711 --> 00:02:13,731 "because he's very, very ill." 41 00:02:13,831 --> 00:02:17,011 And I just said to him, "It's not Aids, is it?" 42 00:02:17,111 --> 00:02:19,111 And he completely denied it. 43 00:02:20,552 --> 00:02:22,912 But I knew that it was. 44 00:02:24,512 --> 00:02:27,372 There's been a lot of rumours lately. 45 00:02:27,472 --> 00:02:30,413 The rumours are that we're going to split up. What do you think? 46 00:02:30,513 --> 00:02:33,773 CROWD ROARS 47 00:02:33,873 --> 00:02:35,873 They're talking from here! 48 00:02:38,793 --> 00:02:39,813 So forget those rumours. 49 00:02:39,913 --> 00:02:43,334 We're going to stay together until we fucking will die. I'm sure. 50 00:02:43,434 --> 00:02:45,814 CROWD CHEERS 51 00:02:45,914 --> 00:02:47,614 ♪ Like a blind man 52 00:02:47,714 --> 00:02:50,014 NEWSREADER: After months of speculation, the rock star 53 00:02:50,114 --> 00:02:52,855 Freddie Mercury confirmed at the weekend that he had Aids 54 00:02:52,955 --> 00:02:55,515 and he died last night at the age of 45. 55 00:03:08,956 --> 00:03:12,737 ♪ Insanity laughs under pressure we're breaking 56 00:03:12,837 --> 00:03:17,257 ♪ Can't we give ourselves one more chance? 57 00:03:17,357 --> 00:03:21,017 That dreaded new disease - Aids - has now reached Britain... 58 00:03:21,117 --> 00:03:23,378 The judgment on homosexual promisc... 59 00:03:23,478 --> 00:03:27,658 ..killer plague afflicted on mankind by an outraged God... 60 00:03:27,758 --> 00:03:30,298 BRIAN MAY: There was this talk of, "Well, you know, he was gay. 61 00:03:30,398 --> 00:03:32,659 "He kind of deserved it. You know, he lived that kind 62 00:03:32,759 --> 00:03:35,619 "of promiscuous lifestyle. It was going to happen." 63 00:03:35,719 --> 00:03:39,519 And we thought, "Oh, my God, you people have no idea." 64 00:03:40,559 --> 00:03:44,620 We were very angry and we had to stick up for our friend. 65 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,420 You know, our best friend. 66 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:51,820 So I remember thinking, "Well, we can do something about it." 67 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,301 ♪ This is our last dance 68 00:03:55,401 --> 00:03:59,261 72,000 packed inside, tens of thousands are still arriving. 69 00:03:59,361 --> 00:04:02,501 And half a billion people watching on TV, 70 00:04:02,601 --> 00:04:05,022 on satellite around the world. 71 00:04:05,122 --> 00:04:07,102 Good evening, Wembley and the world! 72 00:04:07,202 --> 00:04:10,082 ♪ Under pressure 73 00:04:11,482 --> 00:04:14,363 ♪ Under pressure 74 00:04:15,803 --> 00:04:17,303 ♪ Pressure ♪ 75 00:04:17,403 --> 00:04:20,683 CROWD CHEERS 76 00:04:25,964 --> 00:04:27,964 TAPE PLAYER CLICKS 77 00:04:29,164 --> 00:04:32,424 Interview with Freddie Mercury, talking to David Wigg 78 00:04:32,524 --> 00:04:34,785 recorded in Britain. 79 00:04:34,885 --> 00:04:40,545 Um, first of all, what is the future of the band going to be? 80 00:04:40,645 --> 00:04:43,986 I did some major interviews with The Beatles 81 00:04:44,086 --> 00:04:47,186 and I was in Chelsea 82 00:04:47,286 --> 00:04:50,746 and Kenny Everett was having dinner with Freddie. 83 00:04:50,846 --> 00:04:55,507 And as I walked past the table, Freddie just said, "Oh, by the way, 84 00:04:55,607 --> 00:04:57,627 "I did enjoy your interviews with the Beatles." 85 00:04:57,727 --> 00:04:59,227 I said, "Well, thank you." 86 00:04:59,327 --> 00:05:01,027 He said, "You haven't done me yet!" 87 00:05:01,127 --> 00:05:03,107 I said, "Well," I said, 88 00:05:03,207 --> 00:05:06,268 "if you'd like me to, I'd be delighted, of course!" You know. 89 00:05:06,368 --> 00:05:09,388 "Right, come up to Manchester next week and we're doing a show there, 90 00:05:09,488 --> 00:05:10,948 "and I'll see you after the show." 91 00:05:11,048 --> 00:05:13,468 He was very much... Freddie was an instant person. 92 00:05:13,568 --> 00:05:15,929 He would make instant decisions like that. 93 00:05:17,689 --> 00:05:20,969 And we just got on from the start, you know. 94 00:05:47,172 --> 00:05:49,192 THEY LAUGH 95 00:05:49,292 --> 00:05:55,032 Life was for living, is what Freddie used to say. 96 00:05:55,132 --> 00:05:56,593 Hello, boys and girls. 97 00:05:56,693 --> 00:05:58,273 It's very nice to be in Japan. 98 00:05:58,373 --> 00:06:01,393 Thank you very much for the reception 99 00:06:01,493 --> 00:06:03,433 and the amazing welcome. 100 00:06:03,533 --> 00:06:07,154 And from me and the boys, from Queen, thank you very much. 101 00:06:07,254 --> 00:06:08,394 Sayonara. 102 00:06:08,494 --> 00:06:10,314 ♪ Can anybody... 103 00:06:10,414 --> 00:06:13,154 I was very close to Freddie in the beginning, and I used to share 104 00:06:13,254 --> 00:06:14,954 rooms with him when we were on tour. 105 00:06:15,054 --> 00:06:18,315 So there isn't a lot that I don't know about Freddie. 106 00:06:18,415 --> 00:06:19,915 ♪ Find me 107 00:06:20,015 --> 00:06:22,435 And he was very shy. Very uncertain of himself, 108 00:06:22,535 --> 00:06:25,075 uncertain of his sexuality, for sure. 109 00:06:25,175 --> 00:06:27,756 ♪ Somebody to 110 00:06:27,856 --> 00:06:31,236 I think there was a period where he felt that we might disapprove 111 00:06:31,336 --> 00:06:33,836 and the rest of the world might disapprove, 112 00:06:33,936 --> 00:06:35,936 so I think he struggled with it. 113 00:06:38,097 --> 00:06:39,477 I know he did. 114 00:06:39,577 --> 00:06:44,677 And eventually he was able to pluck up his courage and just completely 115 00:06:44,777 --> 00:06:46,437 be what he wanted to be. 116 00:06:46,537 --> 00:06:49,358 ♪ Each morning I get up I die a little 117 00:06:49,458 --> 00:06:51,398 ♪ Can barely stand on my feet 118 00:06:51,498 --> 00:06:55,838 ♪ (Take a look at yourself) Take a look in the mirror and cry 119 00:06:55,938 --> 00:06:58,279 ♪ (And cry) Lord, what you're doing to me 120 00:06:58,379 --> 00:07:00,399 He didn't want to go into big discussions 121 00:07:00,499 --> 00:07:02,359 about his private life, really. 122 00:07:02,459 --> 00:07:06,559 But when Freddie did talk about it to me, he said, 123 00:07:06,659 --> 00:07:09,160 "What I am is all in the songs." 124 00:07:09,260 --> 00:07:15,240 ♪ Can anybody find me somebody to love? 125 00:07:15,340 --> 00:07:18,801 He was a very sexual animal. 126 00:07:18,901 --> 00:07:23,761 And once he came out, he went wild. He went wild. 127 00:07:23,861 --> 00:07:26,121 ♪ ..every day of my life 128 00:07:26,221 --> 00:07:29,802 But the most important thing with Freddie was that the way 129 00:07:29,902 --> 00:07:33,402 he expressed himself, you couldn't help but realise, you know, 130 00:07:33,502 --> 00:07:36,162 he was always searching for someone to love. 131 00:07:36,262 --> 00:07:42,383 ♪ Can anybody find me somebody to love? 132 00:07:44,143 --> 00:07:47,363 Modern medicine is on the march forward against disease around 133 00:07:47,463 --> 00:07:51,284 the world, but modern lifestyles bring problems of their own. 134 00:07:51,384 --> 00:07:54,284 Nicholas Bulley has been examining this phenomenon, particularly 135 00:07:54,384 --> 00:07:58,284 the spread of a recently identified killer disease called Aids. 136 00:07:58,384 --> 00:08:02,605 Is it more a scare or a scourge? 137 00:08:02,705 --> 00:08:04,445 Aids is really a very alarming 138 00:08:04,545 --> 00:08:06,165 new disease, and it appears 139 00:08:06,265 --> 00:08:10,306 to be a disease that is going to turn out to be universally fatal. 140 00:08:13,266 --> 00:08:19,786 I first became aware of the disease we call Aids now in late 1981. 141 00:08:21,307 --> 00:08:25,367 I'd previously worked a couple of times in Brazil for an English 142 00:08:25,467 --> 00:08:27,047 professor of medicine in Brasilia, 143 00:08:27,147 --> 00:08:30,808 and he described these extraordinary cases 144 00:08:30,908 --> 00:08:35,768 he'd been asked to see in New York. Very unusual infections in gay men, 145 00:08:35,868 --> 00:08:38,688 and he said, "Look, if I'm right, then this infection 146 00:08:38,788 --> 00:08:41,369 "is already occurring in London." 147 00:08:41,469 --> 00:08:43,889 And then, at the end of 1982, 148 00:08:43,989 --> 00:08:49,849 we admitted the first patient with Aids, as we now call it. 149 00:08:49,949 --> 00:08:55,650 We constantly then had increasing numbers of young gay men 150 00:08:55,750 --> 00:08:58,190 admitted with severe illness. 151 00:09:03,311 --> 00:09:06,911 I'd just come out the Air Force and I was 20...well, approaching 21. 152 00:09:07,951 --> 00:09:09,411 I met Paul, my boyfriend, 153 00:09:09,511 --> 00:09:13,272 and we moved into Clapham Junction. 154 00:09:16,312 --> 00:09:19,212 ♪ This thing called love 155 00:09:19,312 --> 00:09:21,492 ♪ I just... 156 00:09:21,592 --> 00:09:24,533 I used to go to The Coleherne and it was a leather bar, 157 00:09:24,633 --> 00:09:27,693 and Freddie liked his... Leathers and feathers, I called him! 158 00:09:27,793 --> 00:09:30,733 ♪ Get ready! 159 00:09:30,833 --> 00:09:32,414 I wasn't a big Queen fan. 160 00:09:32,514 --> 00:09:35,174 Rock music wasn't my thing, but I obviously knew who he was. 161 00:09:35,274 --> 00:09:37,334 ♪ This thing called love 162 00:09:37,434 --> 00:09:42,815 May I introduce to you, Freddie... Good start! ..Mercury! 163 00:09:42,915 --> 00:09:44,495 Ladies and gentlemen... 164 00:09:44,595 --> 00:09:47,015 Freddie started seeing Kenny Everett. 165 00:09:47,115 --> 00:09:49,775 ♪ There goes my baby 166 00:09:49,875 --> 00:09:53,096 They were great friends, and they'd go off and have a laugh and drinks 167 00:09:53,196 --> 00:09:56,016 at these various gay bars in Earl's Court. 168 00:09:56,116 --> 00:09:57,496 Do your stuff, Freddie! 169 00:09:57,596 --> 00:10:01,296 It was an eye opener for me, being that young coming to London. 170 00:10:01,396 --> 00:10:02,977 There was a lot of sexual energy. 171 00:10:03,077 --> 00:10:04,537 ♪ I gotta be cool 172 00:10:04,637 --> 00:10:07,217 The Coleherne had a reputation for its, like, dark corners 173 00:10:07,317 --> 00:10:09,657 and things like that, and that was all new to me. 174 00:10:09,757 --> 00:10:13,718 Carefree sex, and, uh, I didn't embrace it. 175 00:10:15,638 --> 00:10:17,458 But I didn't ignore it. CHUCKLES 176 00:10:17,558 --> 00:10:20,318 ♪ Crazy little thing called love 177 00:10:22,718 --> 00:10:25,339 The value of the dollar is up around the world. 178 00:10:25,439 --> 00:10:27,779 Interest rates are down by 40%. 179 00:10:27,879 --> 00:10:29,939 The stock and bond markets surge upward. 180 00:10:30,039 --> 00:10:32,459 Inflation is down 59%. 181 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:34,500 Buying power is going up. 182 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,640 Some economic indicators are down, others are up. 183 00:10:53,681 --> 00:10:55,682 LAUGHTER 184 00:11:08,723 --> 00:11:12,583 It was an enormous struggle to get governments to take the scale 185 00:11:12,683 --> 00:11:15,944 of this disease seriously. 186 00:11:16,044 --> 00:11:20,024 And indeed, I remember a view that gay men 187 00:11:20,124 --> 00:11:23,784 were not innocent victims - they'd brought this on themselves. 188 00:11:23,884 --> 00:11:26,945 Reverend Falwell, you say Aids is God's judgment 189 00:11:27,045 --> 00:11:29,265 on homosexual promiscuity. 190 00:11:29,365 --> 00:11:32,865 I believe that God does not judge people, God judges sin, 191 00:11:32,965 --> 00:11:34,585 and I do believe that Aids - 192 00:11:34,685 --> 00:11:37,546 generally caused by homosexual promiscuity - 193 00:11:37,646 --> 00:11:40,786 is a violation of God's laws, laws of nature and decency. 194 00:11:40,886 --> 00:11:44,946 And, as a result, we pay the price when we violate the laws of God. 195 00:11:45,046 --> 00:11:48,147 One of Freddie's friends in New York actually 196 00:11:48,247 --> 00:11:50,347 worked in St Vincent's Hospital, 197 00:11:50,447 --> 00:11:54,467 where a lot of people were being treated, 198 00:11:54,567 --> 00:12:00,708 so it registered that there was something out there 199 00:12:00,808 --> 00:12:02,588 that could kill you. 200 00:12:02,688 --> 00:12:05,908 But, you know, I think basically we all thought, 201 00:12:06,008 --> 00:12:08,589 "Well, hopefully it won't happen to me. 202 00:12:08,689 --> 00:12:10,689 "It just won't happen to me." 203 00:12:13,769 --> 00:12:19,970 In 1983, Paul and I, we went for an STD check. 204 00:12:21,450 --> 00:12:25,070 They took our bloods and we went back a few days later 205 00:12:25,170 --> 00:12:28,511 and got the results of those, and, "Oh, by the way, 206 00:12:28,611 --> 00:12:31,571 "you've got this disease that's hitting New York." 207 00:12:33,251 --> 00:12:37,211 Well, that dreaded new disease, Aids, has now reached Britain. 208 00:12:38,972 --> 00:12:43,432 Soon after we got the diagnosis, somebody found out. 209 00:12:43,532 --> 00:12:46,472 And the fact we were living in Clapham Junction, 210 00:12:46,572 --> 00:12:48,513 we were on the seventh floor, 211 00:12:48,613 --> 00:12:53,033 and we hadn't been in that flat long and we'd just got it exactly as... 212 00:12:53,133 --> 00:12:55,133 It was our first proper home. 213 00:12:57,453 --> 00:13:01,274 And somebody had painted on in capital letters 214 00:13:01,374 --> 00:13:04,234 with, like, whitewash paint, 215 00:13:04,334 --> 00:13:06,994 and it just said, "Aids queers" 216 00:13:07,094 --> 00:13:09,155 with an arrow, like this, 217 00:13:09,255 --> 00:13:13,635 going up the seven floors. And then, when it hit our communal area, 218 00:13:13,735 --> 00:13:16,435 the arrow was pointing right at the door. 219 00:13:16,535 --> 00:13:20,396 We only found out because we heard some scrubbing in the morning. 220 00:13:20,496 --> 00:13:21,996 It woke us up. 221 00:13:22,096 --> 00:13:23,436 It was our neighbour next door. 222 00:13:23,536 --> 00:13:26,556 She was in her 80s, and she was there trying to scrub it off 223 00:13:26,656 --> 00:13:28,656 before we could see it. 224 00:13:31,577 --> 00:13:34,517 BRIAN MAY: While we were touring, we would call into radio stations and 225 00:13:34,617 --> 00:13:38,117 TV stations, and sometimes we would just do promo and not do the gigs - 226 00:13:38,217 --> 00:13:41,878 which is a bit arduous actually, because the gigs are the nice part. 227 00:13:41,978 --> 00:13:45,238 And I sat in a TV studio, and I'm not going to tell you where, 228 00:13:45,338 --> 00:13:49,479 and they said, "Oh, right, we'll play your new video down right now." 229 00:13:49,579 --> 00:13:53,319 ♪ I want to break free. 230 00:13:53,419 --> 00:13:55,079 ♪ I want to break... 231 00:13:55,179 --> 00:13:57,879 They put the video on and they went, "Oh, well, we'll stop 232 00:13:57,979 --> 00:14:00,280 "right there and we'll change the subject." 233 00:14:00,380 --> 00:14:03,180 They went pale, they went ashen. 234 00:14:04,660 --> 00:14:07,040 They didn't understand that it was a pastiche of a soap, 235 00:14:07,140 --> 00:14:09,640 you know, Coronation Street. They don't have that in America. 236 00:14:09,740 --> 00:14:11,201 They didn't see the funny side. 237 00:14:11,301 --> 00:14:14,201 But even if they had, I don't think they would have approved. 238 00:14:14,301 --> 00:14:16,321 And it was like, "We can't show this to our children. 239 00:14:16,421 --> 00:14:19,321 "We can't show this to our audience. This is a terrible mistake." 240 00:14:19,421 --> 00:14:21,962 ♪ It's strange but it's true 241 00:14:22,062 --> 00:14:25,442 I mean, it didn't go down well with MTV, 242 00:14:25,542 --> 00:14:28,082 which was obviously very narrow-minded. 243 00:14:28,182 --> 00:14:31,243 It was one big joke, really, as far as we were concerned. 244 00:14:31,343 --> 00:14:32,683 We thought it was rather funny. 245 00:14:32,783 --> 00:14:34,803 They really had this whole attitude of, 246 00:14:34,903 --> 00:14:37,883 "We cannot be seen to support this kind of thing." 247 00:14:37,983 --> 00:14:42,124 "This kind of thing" meaning cross-dressing. 248 00:14:42,224 --> 00:14:44,884 And it's funny - it makes you laugh now, 249 00:14:44,984 --> 00:14:46,984 but it made them drop the record. 250 00:14:49,184 --> 00:14:53,005 The thing with America is at the time, in the mid-'80s, 251 00:14:53,105 --> 00:14:56,325 the way that people had to be portrayed had to be so 252 00:14:56,425 --> 00:14:58,565 cotton-candy clean. 253 00:14:58,665 --> 00:15:03,726 You could not be seen to be gay or you could not come out 254 00:15:03,826 --> 00:15:06,846 during that period. It was completely hidden. 255 00:15:06,946 --> 00:15:10,086 ♪ But life still goes on 256 00:15:10,186 --> 00:15:11,446 I've heard people say to me, 257 00:15:11,546 --> 00:15:13,647 "Oh, but Freddie denied he was homosexual." 258 00:15:13,747 --> 00:15:16,727 No, he didn't. Look at the interviews. Look at it. 259 00:15:16,827 --> 00:15:20,807 The NME asked him in about 1978. They said, "Are you gay?" 260 00:15:20,907 --> 00:15:22,808 And he said, "As a daffodil, dear!" 261 00:15:22,908 --> 00:15:25,248 That is not a man denying his sexuality. 262 00:15:25,348 --> 00:15:28,708 But the funny thing is, people didn't really hear it. 263 00:15:30,748 --> 00:15:32,849 Freddie Mercury was a raving queen, 264 00:15:32,949 --> 00:15:35,649 and he wouldn't mind anybody saying it. 265 00:15:35,749 --> 00:15:40,449 And it was quite amazing that most people didn't even think 266 00:15:40,549 --> 00:15:43,250 that Freddie Mercury was gay. 267 00:15:43,350 --> 00:15:45,450 And then you look back at the history of rock and roll, 268 00:15:45,550 --> 00:15:46,890 and you look at Little Richard... 269 00:15:46,990 --> 00:15:48,570 Let it all hang out! 270 00:15:48,670 --> 00:15:52,090 With the beautiful Little Richard from down in Macon, Georgia. 271 00:15:52,190 --> 00:15:55,531 Is Little Richard a man trying to hide the fact that he's gay? 272 00:15:55,631 --> 00:15:56,611 I don't think so. 273 00:15:56,711 --> 00:15:58,731 I am the king of rock and roll! 274 00:15:58,831 --> 00:16:01,091 Oh, oh, oh! My, my, my! 275 00:16:01,191 --> 00:16:03,772 I just had to do that and I feel so much better I got it out. 276 00:16:03,872 --> 00:16:05,772 And yet nobody talked about it. 277 00:16:05,872 --> 00:16:08,052 Little Richard screamed his passion 278 00:16:08,152 --> 00:16:10,692 in a way that nobody had ever done it before. 279 00:16:10,792 --> 00:16:15,353 It's incredible, and Freddie belongs to that genre completely. 280 00:16:25,794 --> 00:16:29,614 I grew up in Singapore and Malaysia, and I come from a family 281 00:16:29,714 --> 00:16:32,814 of very staunch evangelical Christians at the time, 282 00:16:32,914 --> 00:16:35,255 and there was a popular perception 283 00:16:35,355 --> 00:16:37,055 coming from America that 284 00:16:37,155 --> 00:16:38,975 a homosexual lifestyle was aberrant 285 00:16:39,075 --> 00:16:41,155 or abnormal and not acceptable. 286 00:16:42,715 --> 00:16:47,536 But I persisted with exploring it until I came out to my friends. 287 00:16:47,636 --> 00:16:52,056 ♪ I'd sit alone and watch your light 288 00:16:52,156 --> 00:16:56,737 ♪ My only friend through teenage nights... 289 00:16:56,837 --> 00:16:59,857 When you're a teenager growing up gay, you think you're 290 00:16:59,957 --> 00:17:02,137 the only person in the world. 291 00:17:02,237 --> 00:17:05,618 ♪ I heard it on my radio ♪ 292 00:17:05,718 --> 00:17:08,818 I remember Queen. To be honest, for me, that whole era of the '80s 293 00:17:08,918 --> 00:17:12,978 where people were more androgynous looking and took their shirts off 294 00:17:13,078 --> 00:17:17,019 like Freddie did kind of gave me hope that there are people being 295 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:18,819 a bit wild and radical and different, 296 00:17:18,919 --> 00:17:22,559 and they look like they're OK so maybe I will be too one day. 297 00:17:24,639 --> 00:17:27,260 I was sitting in front of the TV on the floor, on the carpet, 298 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:29,780 watching TV. I think it was the news or something. 299 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:31,380 Good evening. 300 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,860 Anything to do with HIV or anything to do with being gay, 301 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,701 I was hyper attuned to. 302 00:17:37,801 --> 00:17:41,461 Rock Hudson is suffering from Aids and has been having treatment 303 00:17:41,561 --> 00:17:44,301 for more than a year. The confirmation came from Paris, 304 00:17:44,401 --> 00:17:47,142 where he's been in hospital since Sunday. 305 00:17:47,242 --> 00:17:51,422 Rock Hudson was my dad's favourite actor and I remember him saying, 306 00:17:51,522 --> 00:17:54,662 "Oh, my favourite actor is now Clint Eastwood." 307 00:17:54,762 --> 00:17:56,583 And it was just a throwaway comment my dad made, 308 00:17:56,683 --> 00:17:59,183 and I don't think he'd meant anything bad from it. 309 00:17:59,283 --> 00:18:03,383 But, to be honest, as a teenage boy who was secretly gay, 310 00:18:03,483 --> 00:18:06,904 because I had that secret inside me, my heart went cold. 311 00:18:07,004 --> 00:18:13,504 Mr Rock Hudson has Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 312 00:18:13,604 --> 00:18:20,505 which was diagnosed over a year ago in the United States. 313 00:18:20,605 --> 00:18:26,545 He came to Paris to consult with a specialist in this disease. 314 00:18:26,645 --> 00:18:30,306 I had the sort of double whammy of worrying about my sexuality 315 00:18:30,406 --> 00:18:33,426 and whether that would be accepted or whether that was acceptable, 316 00:18:33,526 --> 00:18:37,366 and also worrying about whether I would end up with HIV and die. 317 00:18:40,447 --> 00:18:44,087 ♪ There's no time for us 318 00:18:46,327 --> 00:18:50,208 ♪ There's no place for us 319 00:18:54,288 --> 00:18:57,028 ♪ What is this thing that builds... 320 00:18:57,128 --> 00:19:02,389 A few of Freddie's friends actually died. 321 00:19:02,489 --> 00:19:06,429 The closest was one of 322 00:19:06,529 --> 00:19:09,270 his friends from New York, John Murphy. 323 00:19:09,370 --> 00:19:15,670 ♪ Who wants to live forever 324 00:19:15,770 --> 00:19:22,391 ♪ Who wants to live forever 325 00:19:22,491 --> 00:19:27,051 And there were a couple more people who just... 326 00:19:28,651 --> 00:19:30,352 ..disappeared. 327 00:19:30,452 --> 00:19:33,652 ♪ There's no chance for us 328 00:19:35,972 --> 00:19:39,273 ♪ It's all decided for us... 329 00:19:39,373 --> 00:19:41,953 Within the past half hour, we've heard that the film star 330 00:19:42,053 --> 00:19:45,833 Rock Hudson has died at his home in California. He was 59. 331 00:19:45,933 --> 00:19:50,774 Rock Hudson dying actually did affect Freddie. 332 00:19:52,654 --> 00:19:55,834 REPORTER: News cameras were kept at a distance as the body was moved 333 00:19:55,934 --> 00:19:58,274 into the coroner's van, but there was trouble with two 334 00:19:58,374 --> 00:20:00,435 photographers for two London newspapers. 335 00:20:00,535 --> 00:20:04,475 They were trying to get shots of the body inside the van. 336 00:20:04,575 --> 00:20:11,236 ♪ Who dares to love forever 337 00:20:11,336 --> 00:20:15,676 Hollywood is full of anxious people. The scourge of Aids, especially 338 00:20:15,776 --> 00:20:18,396 of Rock Hudson's, has cut through the old myths 339 00:20:18,496 --> 00:20:20,957 about everlasting youth and beauty. 340 00:20:21,057 --> 00:20:23,597 ♪ Forever 341 00:20:23,697 --> 00:20:30,197 It made Freddie face the fact that instead of us being immortal 342 00:20:30,297 --> 00:20:32,838 and it happening to someone else, 343 00:20:32,938 --> 00:20:36,238 it was getting closer and closer to home. 344 00:20:36,338 --> 00:20:39,658 ♪ Who waits forever anyway? ♪ 345 00:20:43,019 --> 00:20:45,899 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 346 00:20:54,580 --> 00:20:57,640 ROGER TAYLOR: Well, we did two Wembley shows and the Knebworth 347 00:20:57,740 --> 00:20:59,740 at the end of the '86 tour. 348 00:21:01,380 --> 00:21:04,761 BRIAN MAY: We'd sold out two nights at Wembley, which was extraordinary. 349 00:21:04,861 --> 00:21:07,041 And then there isn't another date available, so we go 350 00:21:07,141 --> 00:21:10,001 to Knebworth Park and we sell way over... 351 00:21:10,101 --> 00:21:11,802 I don't know how many people were there. 352 00:21:11,902 --> 00:21:14,102 People have told me like 130,000 or something. 353 00:21:15,662 --> 00:21:17,762 It was a huge audience, I remember, 354 00:21:17,862 --> 00:21:21,222 and the set just seemed to float by in a dream. 355 00:21:23,703 --> 00:21:27,243 We'd done the biggest tour ever of our lives, and it was a great 356 00:21:27,343 --> 00:21:28,923 success and we were very happy. 357 00:21:29,023 --> 00:21:31,763 And Freddie said, "I can't do this any more after this," 358 00:21:31,863 --> 00:21:33,864 and we went, "Oh." 359 00:21:35,264 --> 00:21:38,564 After Knebworth, he just felt 360 00:21:38,664 --> 00:21:42,464 that it was taking a lot out of him. More than normal. 361 00:21:45,545 --> 00:21:50,725 He was fairly firm, the fact that he didn't at that point want to do 362 00:21:50,825 --> 00:21:53,806 any more live shows, which sort of told us 363 00:21:53,906 --> 00:21:55,906 that there was something wrong. 364 00:22:00,626 --> 00:22:05,087 ANITA DOBSON: I met Fred in '86 and I got to see them play at Wembley 365 00:22:05,187 --> 00:22:09,407 just before they finished that tour. And then I got invited to the party 366 00:22:09,507 --> 00:22:13,568 afterwards, and it was at that party that Fred grabbed my arm and said, 367 00:22:13,668 --> 00:22:17,288 "Come and meet my Jim!" That was his boyfriend, Jim. 368 00:22:17,388 --> 00:22:19,648 And he was very proud of Jim. 369 00:22:19,748 --> 00:22:22,408 We spent ages talking together and then he took me back to his house 370 00:22:22,508 --> 00:22:25,489 afterwards, and that was really how our friendship started. 371 00:22:25,589 --> 00:22:27,589 It was that night. 372 00:22:31,989 --> 00:22:36,490 Well, he always said London was his home. 373 00:22:36,590 --> 00:22:40,430 When he got Garden Lodge, it was beautiful. 374 00:22:41,470 --> 00:22:43,890 And he made the garden into a Japanese garden 375 00:22:43,990 --> 00:22:45,991 because he loved going to Japan. 376 00:22:48,191 --> 00:22:52,171 He had also found Jim Hutton, 377 00:22:52,271 --> 00:22:54,812 who was there living with him. 378 00:22:54,912 --> 00:22:58,732 They'd devised this thing to say that he was a gardener. 379 00:22:58,832 --> 00:23:03,252 And I thought, "Well, he's obviously a very good gardener because he's there every time I go." 380 00:23:03,352 --> 00:23:06,273 So, yes, I put two and two together. 381 00:23:08,033 --> 00:23:12,293 Peter Freestone - Phoebe, as we called him - was always there. 382 00:23:12,393 --> 00:23:14,293 And Joe, the cook. Our lovely Joe 383 00:23:14,393 --> 00:23:17,494 who used to cook wonderful, wonderful food. 384 00:23:17,594 --> 00:23:22,254 I always enjoyed visiting him because he'd got a chef, 385 00:23:22,354 --> 00:23:23,774 he'd got a chauffeur. 386 00:23:23,874 --> 00:23:26,455 I liked all those things! But also, 387 00:23:26,555 --> 00:23:28,375 it was lovely to just sit down and 388 00:23:28,475 --> 00:23:31,055 have a chat as a brother and sister, 389 00:23:31,155 --> 00:23:34,095 and we would talk about all kinds of things, you know. 390 00:23:34,195 --> 00:23:38,656 He had his own family, the Bulsara family, who were...who are divine. 391 00:23:38,756 --> 00:23:42,056 But he made another family for himself 392 00:23:42,156 --> 00:23:46,097 that was the family that he'd chosen. The friends from his world, 393 00:23:46,197 --> 00:23:49,957 his new world that he was in, where Freddie could be Freddie. 394 00:23:56,838 --> 00:24:02,578 Freddie loved Japan, and he felt that he still wanted to put things 395 00:24:02,678 --> 00:24:08,219 into Garden Lodge - some furniture, some porcelain, art. 396 00:24:08,319 --> 00:24:11,459 So he and Jim and Joe Fanelli 397 00:24:11,559 --> 00:24:16,339 went off on a shopping trip! LAUGHS 398 00:24:16,439 --> 00:24:20,660 He thought that that would be the perfect place for him 399 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,760 to get back some energy. 400 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,681 And when he came back, the Sun jumped on him. 401 00:24:30,961 --> 00:24:33,861 "Is this man dying?" I think it said. 402 00:24:33,961 --> 00:24:39,662 That's pretty close to scavenging carry on that you could get. 403 00:24:39,762 --> 00:24:41,742 What kind of way is that to treat 404 00:24:41,842 --> 00:24:45,082 somebody who's brought a lot of pleasure to a lot of people? 405 00:24:46,722 --> 00:24:51,703 It sort of engendered absolute hatred in me 406 00:24:51,803 --> 00:24:55,503 of the Murdoch press approach. 407 00:24:55,603 --> 00:24:57,743 Once again this morning, some of the popular press 408 00:24:57,843 --> 00:25:00,104 have been indulging in their latest pastime. 409 00:25:00,204 --> 00:25:03,224 Headlines like this - "Danger men in Aids alert." 410 00:25:03,324 --> 00:25:05,104 Talk about a gay plague. 411 00:25:05,204 --> 00:25:08,104 Freddie was a prime target. 412 00:25:08,204 --> 00:25:10,105 I mean, he didn't look sick. 413 00:25:10,205 --> 00:25:14,105 There was absolutely nothing wrong with him, but he was the famous 414 00:25:14,205 --> 00:25:18,045 person who they sort of knew was gay so maybe he had it. 415 00:25:27,726 --> 00:25:32,267 So I came out in 1985, when I'd just turned 16. 416 00:25:32,367 --> 00:25:36,507 I'd started to explore my life as a young gay man in London. 417 00:25:36,607 --> 00:25:38,107 You know, I made a few friends. 418 00:25:38,207 --> 00:25:41,308 I was going out, hitting the really small black gay scene 419 00:25:41,408 --> 00:25:43,528 in South London where I grew up. 420 00:25:45,208 --> 00:25:47,468 Just...I think it was a week after I came out, 421 00:25:47,568 --> 00:25:49,789 Rock Hudson died of Aids. 422 00:25:49,889 --> 00:25:55,549 I think I really became aware of it in late 1986, when my friends 423 00:25:55,649 --> 00:26:00,870 were telling me to go for HTLV-III tests, which had just become 424 00:26:00,970 --> 00:26:02,970 available in this country. 425 00:26:05,650 --> 00:26:08,950 I wasn't nervous and I wasn't anxious because I genuinely thought 426 00:26:09,050 --> 00:26:12,711 that I don't have this, because I'd only had a couple of lovers. 427 00:26:12,811 --> 00:26:16,431 And, in my mind, Aids was something that was happening across the pond 428 00:26:16,531 --> 00:26:19,591 and there was a narrative that if you avoided sex with Americans, 429 00:26:19,691 --> 00:26:22,952 which I did, and in my community if you avoided sex with white men, 430 00:26:23,052 --> 00:26:25,352 which I did, then you wouldn't get HIV. 431 00:26:25,452 --> 00:26:28,232 And if you were not having lots of sexual partners, 432 00:26:28,332 --> 00:26:29,792 you wouldn't get HIV. 433 00:26:29,892 --> 00:26:32,293 And I ticked all of those three boxes. 434 00:26:34,133 --> 00:26:37,473 So I got my tests done at Westminster Hospital 435 00:26:37,573 --> 00:26:40,513 and I saw a really, really lovely doctor. 436 00:26:40,613 --> 00:26:42,754 Dr Dolman I think his name was. 437 00:26:42,854 --> 00:26:45,874 And he sat me down and said to me, you know, 438 00:26:45,974 --> 00:26:48,374 "Sadly, they've come back positive." 439 00:26:49,734 --> 00:26:53,535 And I sat stunned in absolute silence. 440 00:26:55,575 --> 00:26:59,555 I remember feeling like I was in a tunnel and everything 441 00:26:59,655 --> 00:27:04,476 was closing in on me, and I just felt that my future would be dark, 442 00:27:04,576 --> 00:27:06,996 would be filled with disease - 443 00:27:07,096 --> 00:27:10,156 a disease I didn't even understand but I knew it would be painful 444 00:27:10,256 --> 00:27:12,257 and it would be shameful. 445 00:27:14,497 --> 00:27:18,217 I was 17 and three months. 446 00:27:21,537 --> 00:27:23,598 ♪ Oh, yes 447 00:27:23,698 --> 00:27:27,118 ♪ I'm the great pretender 448 00:27:27,218 --> 00:27:29,318 ♪ Ooh, ooh 449 00:27:29,418 --> 00:27:32,398 I was in that video dressed in a purple mini dress, I think, 450 00:27:32,498 --> 00:27:35,359 with a sort of yeehaw fringe. 451 00:27:35,459 --> 00:27:37,399 ♪ My need is such 452 00:27:37,499 --> 00:27:39,119 And it was just a laugh with Freddie. 453 00:27:39,219 --> 00:27:41,959 ♪ I pretend too much 454 00:27:42,059 --> 00:27:44,880 He said I've always fancied, you know, doing a version 455 00:27:44,980 --> 00:27:46,840 of The Great Pretender. 456 00:27:46,940 --> 00:27:49,680 He said, "It'll be a hit, darling." And that's exactly what happened. 457 00:27:49,780 --> 00:27:52,400 It came out. I think it was straight into, like, 458 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:54,361 number five or four or something, 459 00:27:54,461 --> 00:27:55,681 bounced out and there we were, 460 00:27:55,781 --> 00:27:56,881 off and running. 461 00:27:56,981 --> 00:27:59,281 ♪ I play the game 462 00:27:59,381 --> 00:28:02,881 Freddie had this mark on his hand 463 00:28:02,981 --> 00:28:06,402 and we could see he was worried. 464 00:28:06,502 --> 00:28:11,642 He then decided finally to go to the doctor 465 00:28:11,742 --> 00:28:14,803 because it was just getting bigger and darker. 466 00:28:14,903 --> 00:28:19,283 They did a biopsy and when the doctor called him, 467 00:28:19,383 --> 00:28:21,423 Freddie would not take the phone call. 468 00:28:23,703 --> 00:28:26,844 He had all the excuses - oh, he was in the bath, 469 00:28:26,944 --> 00:28:28,884 he was out, he was somewhere... 470 00:28:28,984 --> 00:28:30,724 He just did not want to talk to the doctor 471 00:28:30,824 --> 00:28:35,485 so I had a very, very good idea that he knew that this was 472 00:28:35,585 --> 00:28:41,245 Kaposi's sarcoma, which was one of the first indications of Aids. 473 00:28:41,345 --> 00:28:46,006 ♪ I seem to be what I'm not 474 00:28:46,106 --> 00:28:50,206 We were seeing people being thrown out by their families, 475 00:28:50,306 --> 00:28:52,046 facing violence from their neighbours, 476 00:28:52,146 --> 00:28:55,227 losing their jobs, the media attacking them. 477 00:28:58,627 --> 00:29:02,607 So I can only imagine what that must have felt like for a global 478 00:29:02,707 --> 00:29:05,768 superstar like Freddie Mercury. 479 00:29:05,868 --> 00:29:08,528 There was so much shame, there was so much stigma, 480 00:29:08,628 --> 00:29:10,688 there were no effective treatments, 481 00:29:10,788 --> 00:29:15,869 so in some ways it was safer to sit in ignorance, to sit in denial. 482 00:29:27,070 --> 00:29:30,090 Interview with Freddie Mercury in 1987 483 00:29:30,190 --> 00:29:33,930 on the occasion of his birthday, celebrated in Ibiza. 484 00:29:34,030 --> 00:29:36,030 What do you want to say? 485 00:29:37,111 --> 00:29:40,331 We were sitting around the pool and it really sent a chill 486 00:29:40,431 --> 00:29:44,971 through me because Freddie had a mauve mark on his cheek. 487 00:29:45,071 --> 00:29:49,452 And I knew that people get a sort of mauve mark 488 00:29:49,552 --> 00:29:51,212 anywhere on their body, 489 00:29:51,312 --> 00:29:53,452 it's a sign they could have HIV. 490 00:29:53,552 --> 00:29:57,113 And two hours later, I had to interview him. 491 00:30:45,037 --> 00:30:47,217 At the end of the interview, I said to him, 492 00:30:47,317 --> 00:30:51,998 "Freddie, I'm going to have to ask you something. Have you HIV?" 493 00:30:53,358 --> 00:30:55,458 And he said, "David, is that machine off?" 494 00:30:55,558 --> 00:30:57,978 I said, "Yes, it is off." 495 00:30:58,078 --> 00:31:02,819 "Well, if I tell you as a friend, David, will you promise me 496 00:31:02,919 --> 00:31:06,179 "you will not put it in the article?" 497 00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:08,740 And then I thought, "I know what's coming," so I said, 498 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,460 "If you don't want to, then of course not, 499 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,300 "but I just hope it's not what I think it is." 500 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:19,341 And he said, "Well, I'm afraid it is, but I'm going to fight it. 501 00:31:19,441 --> 00:31:22,301 "We're going to find a cure. 502 00:31:22,401 --> 00:31:24,341 "End of subject." 503 00:31:24,441 --> 00:31:29,662 MARGARET THATCHER: Civilised society doesn't just happen. 504 00:31:29,762 --> 00:31:35,302 It has to be sustained by standards widely accepted and upheld. 505 00:31:35,402 --> 00:31:39,142 It is time that these things were said. 506 00:31:39,242 --> 00:31:41,543 ♪ Well, I guess it would be nice 507 00:31:41,643 --> 00:31:44,023 ♪ If I could touch your body... 508 00:31:44,123 --> 00:31:46,343 George, are you gay? 509 00:31:46,443 --> 00:31:49,583 Am I gay? That's a pretty...pretty direct first question! 510 00:31:49,683 --> 00:31:51,784 I've never said no. I've never said yes. 511 00:31:51,884 --> 00:31:53,584 The main thing I like to express 512 00:31:53,684 --> 00:31:56,304 is that I don't think it's anybody's business. 513 00:31:56,404 --> 00:31:59,084 In the 1980s, there was a culture war. 514 00:32:00,124 --> 00:32:03,225 I'm trying to make people more tolerant towards things 515 00:32:03,325 --> 00:32:04,585 which aren't harmful. 516 00:32:04,685 --> 00:32:07,825 More gay people were coming out and demanding our rights. 517 00:32:07,925 --> 00:32:11,306 The only people who have succour and comfort from your views 518 00:32:11,406 --> 00:32:14,666 are those who beat up, discriminate and practise abuse 519 00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:17,586 against the gay community. You ought to be ashamed... 520 00:32:17,686 --> 00:32:22,227 At the same time, the Aids pandemic generated a huge moral panic 521 00:32:22,327 --> 00:32:24,147 against gay and bisexual men. 522 00:32:24,247 --> 00:32:28,667 Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values 523 00:32:28,767 --> 00:32:32,908 have been taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay. 524 00:32:33,008 --> 00:32:34,308 ♪ Faith, faith, faith 525 00:32:34,408 --> 00:32:37,428 During the 1970s, early 1980s, 526 00:32:37,528 --> 00:32:41,789 public opinion had been shifting in favour of accepting 527 00:32:41,889 --> 00:32:43,149 gay and lesbian people. 528 00:32:43,249 --> 00:32:48,109 But with the advent of the Aids pandemic, that went into reverse. 529 00:32:48,209 --> 00:32:50,869 The real thing is what is right and what is wrong. 530 00:32:50,969 --> 00:32:54,990 Government is to ban the promotion of homosexuality in schools. 531 00:32:55,090 --> 00:32:58,350 ..clause 28 of the local government bill would make it an offence for a 532 00:32:58,450 --> 00:33:01,630 local authority intentionally to promote homosexuality. 533 00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:04,591 ..Anderton, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, last week 534 00:33:04,691 --> 00:33:09,071 castigated homosexuals as engaging in obnoxious practises and said 535 00:33:09,171 --> 00:33:12,872 the alarming spread of Aids was made possible by our increasingly 536 00:33:12,972 --> 00:33:15,392 degenerate conduct as a human race. 537 00:33:15,492 --> 00:33:16,832 ♪ Faith, faith, faith 538 00:33:16,932 --> 00:33:18,072 It was vicious. 539 00:33:18,172 --> 00:33:20,232 "Lock them all up." "Gas the gays." 540 00:33:20,332 --> 00:33:22,032 "Put them on an island somewhere." 541 00:33:22,132 --> 00:33:24,433 It wouldn't have existed but for homosexual behaviour 542 00:33:24,533 --> 00:33:27,353 in this country, and let's say it straight out without any messing. 543 00:33:27,453 --> 00:33:31,033 Nobody knew anything apart from the fact that it impacted 544 00:33:31,133 --> 00:33:33,994 young gay men. So it's not about how much sex 545 00:33:34,094 --> 00:33:37,834 they're having, how they're having sex, it's who we're having sex with, 546 00:33:37,934 --> 00:33:39,434 right? People hated gay sex. 547 00:33:39,534 --> 00:33:43,475 They didn't like the idea of men engaging with sex with other men. 548 00:33:43,575 --> 00:33:48,635 It's like a gift from God because it's seen as a plague 549 00:33:48,735 --> 00:33:52,035 afflicted on mankind by an outraged god. 550 00:33:52,135 --> 00:33:56,316 A killer plague against permissiveness, against illicit... 551 00:33:56,416 --> 00:33:59,556 It's Old Testament, isn't it? It's biblical. 552 00:33:59,656 --> 00:34:02,176 ♪ I gotta have faith, faith, faith ♪ 553 00:34:05,177 --> 00:34:07,177 Richard was... 554 00:34:08,417 --> 00:34:10,397 He used to work in Heaven. 555 00:34:10,497 --> 00:34:13,838 They had a little leather concession shop next to the Star Bar. 556 00:34:13,938 --> 00:34:17,638 I wasn't working, and he said, "Oh, I can get you a job." 557 00:34:17,738 --> 00:34:19,798 And I said, "Why, where do you work?" He said, 558 00:34:19,898 --> 00:34:21,898 "I work for John Lewis." 559 00:34:22,938 --> 00:34:26,079 We didn't work together. I was in china and glass 560 00:34:26,179 --> 00:34:29,459 and he was in fitted kitchens. He was on the floor below me. 561 00:34:30,899 --> 00:34:34,680 My parents just absolutely adored him. 562 00:34:34,780 --> 00:34:38,200 He was, like, 12 years older than me. 563 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:40,600 And he knew upfront about me. 564 00:34:40,700 --> 00:34:43,800 Um, but he never took a test to begin with 565 00:34:43,900 --> 00:34:46,361 because he always suspected that he might have it. 566 00:34:46,461 --> 00:34:48,781 And I think a lot of people did back then. 567 00:34:52,621 --> 00:34:55,882 BRIAN MAY: These things were not really spoken of, but of course, 568 00:34:55,982 --> 00:34:58,562 we read the papers, we'd seen what happened to Freddie, 569 00:34:58,662 --> 00:35:02,682 we saw him disappearing and coming back with these, uh, 570 00:35:02,782 --> 00:35:05,523 kind of burns to his skin. 571 00:35:05,623 --> 00:35:07,203 ♪ A new life is born... 572 00:35:07,303 --> 00:35:10,003 And I think we didn't like to ask 573 00:35:10,103 --> 00:35:12,123 because we didn't want to know, perhaps. 574 00:35:12,223 --> 00:35:14,883 And I think that went on a very long time. 575 00:35:14,983 --> 00:35:17,844 We made a whole album during that time. We made The Miracle album. 576 00:35:17,944 --> 00:35:19,124 Now! 577 00:35:19,224 --> 00:35:22,444 And Freddie at that time was still full of energy, but signs 578 00:35:22,544 --> 00:35:25,644 that something is attacking him because he's got this skin thing 579 00:35:25,744 --> 00:35:29,405 going on, and he disappears for his treatments sometimes. 580 00:35:29,505 --> 00:35:31,925 ♪ I wake up 581 00:35:32,025 --> 00:35:34,525 ♪ Feel just fine 582 00:35:34,625 --> 00:35:36,005 ♪ Your face... 583 00:35:36,105 --> 00:35:39,486 We wanted to think it was something else, maybe to do with his liver 584 00:35:39,586 --> 00:35:42,926 or something and there was a certain amount of self-deception going on, 585 00:35:43,026 --> 00:35:45,406 and then I think in the end it became fairly obvious. 586 00:35:45,506 --> 00:35:48,727 And then, in the end, he sort of frankly told us. 587 00:35:48,827 --> 00:35:50,207 ♪ Can't you see? 588 00:35:50,307 --> 00:35:55,087 The first time we really knew was when we got together in Montreux, 589 00:35:55,187 --> 00:35:56,888 and Freddie just sat down and said, 590 00:35:56,988 --> 00:35:59,568 "OK, you guys probably know what's going on with me. 591 00:35:59,668 --> 00:36:02,528 "You know what I'm dealing with. I don't want to talk about it. 592 00:36:02,628 --> 00:36:03,928 "I don't want to take any action 593 00:36:04,028 --> 00:36:06,048 "apart from carrying on the way we are. 594 00:36:06,148 --> 00:36:09,249 "I want to keep making music for as long as I fucking can, 595 00:36:09,349 --> 00:36:14,089 "and we will not dwell on it. We will just go on." 596 00:36:14,189 --> 00:36:17,610 And so we all went, "OK." 597 00:36:17,710 --> 00:36:18,970 And that was it. 598 00:36:19,070 --> 00:36:23,850 Oh, I think our feelings were, "Goddamn it!" You know? 599 00:36:23,950 --> 00:36:28,291 "Poor Freddie. Let's all close ranks around him." 600 00:36:28,391 --> 00:36:30,331 He wanted to do nothing but work 601 00:36:30,431 --> 00:36:32,851 because that took his mind off things. 602 00:36:32,951 --> 00:36:35,531 ♪ If I could only reach you 603 00:36:35,631 --> 00:36:38,172 ♪ If I could make you smile 604 00:36:38,272 --> 00:36:40,532 ♪ If I can only reach you 605 00:36:40,632 --> 00:36:43,932 There was a further discussion about what attitude we would have 606 00:36:44,032 --> 00:36:48,333 if we were questioned, and we all agreed we would just deny. 607 00:36:48,433 --> 00:36:52,173 To protect Freddie, we would just say, "Nope, nothing happening," 608 00:36:52,273 --> 00:36:55,013 and we felt quite comfortable about that. 609 00:36:55,113 --> 00:36:59,854 I was absolutely prepared to lie through my teeth 610 00:36:59,954 --> 00:37:02,154 right up to the last minute, you know? 611 00:37:03,874 --> 00:37:08,014 ♪ Break through! ♪ 612 00:37:08,114 --> 00:37:14,375 He did say that he has got an incurable blood disease. 613 00:37:14,475 --> 00:37:17,135 And I just said to him, "It's not Aids, is it?" 614 00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:19,576 And he completely denied it. 615 00:37:19,676 --> 00:37:22,816 But I knew that it was Aids. 616 00:37:22,916 --> 00:37:26,356 But he didn't want to talk about it so I respected his wishes. 617 00:37:30,157 --> 00:37:33,777 When we were in the studio, the studio doors were closed. 618 00:37:33,877 --> 00:37:36,057 We were in there and we had fun. 619 00:37:36,157 --> 00:37:39,617 ♪ And you're rushing headlong, but there ain't no stopping 620 00:37:39,717 --> 00:37:42,578 ♪ And there's nothing you can do about it... ♪ 621 00:37:42,678 --> 00:37:45,218 It was a great time, it really was. It sounds strange to say that, 622 00:37:45,318 --> 00:37:49,138 but it really was. For us as a family, Queen as a family, 623 00:37:49,238 --> 00:37:50,859 it was fantastic. 624 00:37:50,959 --> 00:37:53,659 We were never closer than those times in Montreux. 625 00:37:53,759 --> 00:37:58,059 ♪ Headlong ♪ 626 00:37:58,159 --> 00:38:00,520 But by that time, Freddie was suffering. 627 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:07,020 Wherever Aids comes from, and whoever it attacks, it produces the 628 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,380 same catastrophic, fatal results. 629 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,381 People with Aids lose several stone in weight and suffer many 630 00:38:14,481 --> 00:38:18,841 afflictions like diarrhoea and breathlessness and brain damage. 631 00:38:20,801 --> 00:38:24,542 Richard had CMV - cytomegalovirus, which was a virus that attacked 632 00:38:24,642 --> 00:38:28,742 all the internal organs and just literally ate away at them. 633 00:38:28,842 --> 00:38:31,403 And he was suffering. 634 00:38:33,523 --> 00:38:36,223 Freddie had problems with his eyes. 635 00:38:36,323 --> 00:38:41,704 He had to have Ganciclovir, which was a drip for one hour, 636 00:38:41,804 --> 00:38:44,384 three times a day. 637 00:38:44,484 --> 00:38:49,624 He had a Hickman central line put in. Joe and I were taught 638 00:38:49,724 --> 00:38:54,605 how to actually connect up the drip to give him his medication. 639 00:38:56,005 --> 00:39:00,745 When Freddie would see his own videos, he would say, 640 00:39:00,845 --> 00:39:03,826 "Oh, I was handsome then," and that is...that's very, 641 00:39:03,926 --> 00:39:07,986 very hurtful, that he knew what he was going through. 642 00:39:08,086 --> 00:39:11,466 Because I thought my brother was handsome. 643 00:39:11,566 --> 00:39:12,947 Still do! 644 00:39:13,047 --> 00:39:17,427 I really thought that was... That was so...so sad. 645 00:39:17,527 --> 00:39:22,467 This year's Special Award for an Outstanding Contribution 646 00:39:22,567 --> 00:39:25,308 to British Music goes to John Deacon, 647 00:39:25,408 --> 00:39:30,028 Brian May, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury - Queen. 648 00:39:30,128 --> 00:39:32,068 Accepting that award, it was quite hard. 649 00:39:32,168 --> 00:39:33,989 We knew that Freddie obviously wasn't well, 650 00:39:34,089 --> 00:39:36,089 and it was obvious to everybody. 651 00:39:37,009 --> 00:39:40,949 But, you know, rather than not accept the award, we just turned up 652 00:39:41,049 --> 00:39:42,749 and took it. 653 00:39:42,849 --> 00:39:44,310 "Thank you very much." 654 00:39:44,410 --> 00:39:46,890 Thank you. Goodnight. 655 00:39:48,210 --> 00:39:53,751 He was really in a lot of pain, and he never complained. Never. 656 00:39:53,851 --> 00:39:56,311 ♪ Empty spaces 657 00:39:56,411 --> 00:39:58,991 ♪ What are we living for? 658 00:39:59,091 --> 00:40:01,751 ♪ Abandoned places 659 00:40:01,851 --> 00:40:03,351 ♪ I guess we know... 660 00:40:03,451 --> 00:40:05,352 It's a strange story, The Show Must Go On, 661 00:40:05,452 --> 00:40:09,232 because I had the title and a few words and I had most of the tune 662 00:40:09,332 --> 00:40:11,992 and the chords and everything. 663 00:40:12,092 --> 00:40:14,153 And I called it The Show Must Go On, and I said 664 00:40:14,253 --> 00:40:16,993 to Freddie, "I'm calling this The Show Must Go On right now, 665 00:40:17,093 --> 00:40:19,033 "but do you think that's a bit too corny?" 666 00:40:19,133 --> 00:40:21,433 And he said, "No, no, it's not too corny at all. It's great. 667 00:40:21,533 --> 00:40:23,313 "We'll do it. Let's write some words." 668 00:40:23,413 --> 00:40:26,314 So we sat down and started writing some words, and we were writing 669 00:40:26,414 --> 00:40:28,634 a little story about this clown who's very sad 670 00:40:28,734 --> 00:40:30,914 but he paints his smile on so that he still looks happy. 671 00:40:31,014 --> 00:40:34,274 ♪ Another hero 672 00:40:34,374 --> 00:40:37,195 At no point did I say to him, 673 00:40:37,295 --> 00:40:41,135 "Well, actually, I was writing this song about you, Freddie," you know? 674 00:40:42,335 --> 00:40:45,436 And he didn't ask. He didn't say, you know, "Who is this clown?" 675 00:40:45,536 --> 00:40:49,156 or whatever. The unwritten thing was that we didn't discuss 676 00:40:49,256 --> 00:40:50,436 the lower levels. 677 00:40:50,536 --> 00:40:53,556 ♪ The show must go on 678 00:40:53,656 --> 00:40:56,917 When he came in, he wasn't in a great state. 679 00:40:57,017 --> 00:41:00,397 He was finding it hard to walk, even finding it hard to sit 680 00:41:00,497 --> 00:41:03,277 because he was in a lot of pain. I played him the stuff. He said, 681 00:41:03,377 --> 00:41:06,118 "It's brilliant. I will sing it, I will fucking go for it." 682 00:41:06,218 --> 00:41:07,838 He said, "Bring me the vodka!" 683 00:41:07,938 --> 00:41:10,598 I brought him the vodka and he pours himself a shot, 684 00:41:10,698 --> 00:41:13,398 knocks it down, and then he props himself up. 685 00:41:13,498 --> 00:41:14,438 Says, "Another one." 686 00:41:14,538 --> 00:41:16,559 Knocks another vodka back and says, "OK, go for it." 687 00:41:16,659 --> 00:41:18,839 and he went for it. And those notes came out of him, 688 00:41:18,939 --> 00:41:20,479 and I don't know where they came from. 689 00:41:20,579 --> 00:41:22,479 Those are very, very high notes - 690 00:41:22,579 --> 00:41:26,560 even for Freddie, who had a kind of operatic section to his voice. 691 00:41:26,660 --> 00:41:31,600 ♪ My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies 692 00:41:31,700 --> 00:41:37,241 ♪ Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die 693 00:41:37,341 --> 00:41:42,101 ♪ I can fly, my friends 694 00:41:45,301 --> 00:41:50,322 And his voice has that high, wonderful edge that Freddie's voice 695 00:41:50,422 --> 00:41:53,322 always has, but it has a different kind of timbre underneath it. 696 00:41:53,422 --> 00:41:54,682 You can hear it. 697 00:41:54,782 --> 00:41:56,963 ♪ I'll face it with a grin 698 00:41:57,063 --> 00:41:59,323 ♪ I'm never giving in 699 00:41:59,423 --> 00:42:02,783 ♪ On with the show 700 00:42:05,143 --> 00:42:08,404 It's perfectly obvious to him what the endgame was going to be. 701 00:42:08,504 --> 00:42:11,124 But while he was still here and still capable, 702 00:42:11,224 --> 00:42:14,344 he did what he always did. He worked hard and he was brilliant. 703 00:42:16,904 --> 00:42:19,685 NEWSREADER: The Princess of Wales has given a warning 704 00:42:19,785 --> 00:42:23,705 of the dangers of growing prejudice against people with Aids. 705 00:42:25,625 --> 00:42:27,765 It was a very difficult time. 706 00:42:27,865 --> 00:42:30,526 I was a very junior doctor, so I was carrying out tasks 707 00:42:30,626 --> 00:42:32,446 at the order of my consultant. 708 00:42:32,546 --> 00:42:36,486 And it was very hard to get things done because the minute you said, 709 00:42:36,586 --> 00:42:38,607 "I've got an HIV-positive patient," 710 00:42:38,707 --> 00:42:41,607 you could hear the person sighing at the other end of the phone 711 00:42:41,707 --> 00:42:43,767 and then suddenly there would be no beds. 712 00:42:43,867 --> 00:42:47,567 And it was the same sometimes for investigations. 713 00:42:47,667 --> 00:42:50,608 If you needed a bronchoscopy, a test to look in the lungs. 714 00:42:50,708 --> 00:42:55,288 And I remember very clearly being young, frightened, 715 00:42:55,388 --> 00:42:58,408 but feeling like I had to put an armour on, roll my sleeves up 716 00:42:58,508 --> 00:43:01,169 and go into battle. And that was to get a CT scan! 717 00:43:01,269 --> 00:43:02,489 LAUGHS 718 00:43:02,589 --> 00:43:05,329 Which is kind of ridiculous when you think about it now, 719 00:43:05,429 --> 00:43:08,009 but it literally was like that. 720 00:43:08,109 --> 00:43:10,970 HIV does not make people dangerous to know, 721 00:43:11,070 --> 00:43:14,970 so you can shake their hands and give them a hug. 722 00:43:15,070 --> 00:43:16,570 When Richard was in hospital, 723 00:43:16,670 --> 00:43:19,491 he was in there for a year and I was there every day with him. 724 00:43:19,591 --> 00:43:21,631 You start to notice what's going on in the ward. 725 00:43:24,391 --> 00:43:27,611 It suddenly hits. You see the nurses running somewhere 726 00:43:27,711 --> 00:43:30,212 and you know what's happening. 727 00:43:30,312 --> 00:43:34,832 And people were dying quickly and Joe Public didn't really know. 728 00:43:36,832 --> 00:43:39,032 I lost 95% of my friends. 729 00:43:42,353 --> 00:43:44,693 ♪ Sometimes I get the feelin' 730 00:43:44,793 --> 00:43:48,593 ♪ I was back in the old days, long ago 731 00:43:50,834 --> 00:43:55,254 I think Those Were The Days Of Our Lives was very poignant 732 00:43:55,354 --> 00:43:56,574 because of the video, 733 00:43:56,674 --> 00:43:59,094 because that was the last video Freddie did. 734 00:43:59,194 --> 00:44:01,415 ♪ The days were endless, we were crazy... 735 00:44:01,515 --> 00:44:03,295 I think Roger Taylor wrote that. 736 00:44:03,395 --> 00:44:05,255 That was the last video he could do 737 00:44:05,355 --> 00:44:07,495 because he couldn't stand up for long 738 00:44:07,595 --> 00:44:10,415 and he was in great pain. 739 00:44:10,515 --> 00:44:12,896 ♪ I just don't know 740 00:44:12,996 --> 00:44:15,936 Everybody around us that, you know, worked with us, 741 00:44:16,036 --> 00:44:18,136 some of them hadn't seen Freddie for a while. 742 00:44:18,236 --> 00:44:20,696 They were very visibly shocked. 743 00:44:20,796 --> 00:44:24,257 ♪ Those were the days 744 00:44:24,357 --> 00:44:28,537 He could barely stand then, so that was a very brave thing to do. 745 00:44:28,637 --> 00:44:32,258 But he wanted to do it, and do it he did. 746 00:44:32,358 --> 00:44:35,018 He just looked very thin and gaunt, 747 00:44:35,118 --> 00:44:37,678 and the hollows seemed a bit more deeper. 748 00:44:38,918 --> 00:44:39,978 He knew what he was facing 749 00:44:40,078 --> 00:44:42,139 and he knew what he was looking at in the mirror. 750 00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,239 ♪ I still love you 751 00:44:46,439 --> 00:44:48,659 It was a nice little sign off at the end, 752 00:44:48,759 --> 00:44:50,299 I thought was very moving. 753 00:44:50,399 --> 00:44:51,980 ♪ I still love you ♪ 754 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,760 It was like a goodbye at the end, you know? 755 00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,060 I remember he said, "Darling, when I can't sing any more, 756 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,181 "then I die, I'll drop dead. That's it." 757 00:45:02,281 --> 00:45:04,981 And I think when he'd finished and he'd sung as much 758 00:45:05,081 --> 00:45:08,381 as he could sing, he withdrew 759 00:45:08,481 --> 00:45:10,721 and he got ready to die. 760 00:45:14,442 --> 00:45:16,662 The documentary Aids Updates, 761 00:45:16,762 --> 00:45:21,342 it was a series of five ten-minute programmes over a week. 762 00:45:21,442 --> 00:45:24,983 I cry my eyes out and, you know, 763 00:45:25,083 --> 00:45:28,103 I just get hold of Stuart and I say, you know, 764 00:45:28,203 --> 00:45:30,983 "Stuart, I can't... I just can't cope." 765 00:45:31,083 --> 00:45:33,664 The idea of it was to dispel the myths. 766 00:45:33,764 --> 00:45:36,744 Richard was there straight away. He said, "Yes, we'll do it." 767 00:45:36,844 --> 00:45:38,844 I've made out a will. 768 00:45:40,204 --> 00:45:41,664 Erm... 769 00:45:41,764 --> 00:45:46,905 I've spoken to Stuart about funeral arrangements 770 00:45:47,005 --> 00:45:49,945 and how I want, um, 771 00:45:50,045 --> 00:45:52,165 basically how I want my funeral. 772 00:45:55,126 --> 00:45:56,746 He almost caught me out. I was in... 773 00:45:56,846 --> 00:45:59,186 You could smoke in the corridors of the hospitals then, 774 00:45:59,286 --> 00:46:01,546 and I was having a crafty cigarette. 775 00:46:01,646 --> 00:46:04,467 And I heard somebody shout, "Stuart!" 776 00:46:04,567 --> 00:46:08,247 And I dropped the cigarette, ran in there. 777 00:46:10,607 --> 00:46:14,668 SOBS 778 00:46:14,768 --> 00:46:16,768 I... 779 00:46:19,528 --> 00:46:21,528 I held him. 780 00:46:22,088 --> 00:46:25,189 Richard's head was here. I said, "Baby, let go. Let go." 781 00:46:25,289 --> 00:46:27,069 And he did. 782 00:46:27,169 --> 00:46:29,369 And I felt his breath, his last breath. 783 00:46:34,049 --> 00:46:39,870 The last two weeks of Freddie's life, there was the same people 784 00:46:39,970 --> 00:46:44,430 in Garden Lodge. There was Freddie, Jim, Joe Fanelli and myself. 785 00:46:44,530 --> 00:46:49,431 Joe Fanelli was diagnosed with HIV. 786 00:46:49,531 --> 00:46:52,651 Jim was diagnosed with HIV. 787 00:46:55,171 --> 00:46:57,552 He had already made the decision 788 00:46:57,652 --> 00:47:00,992 he would have no more drugs that were keeping him alive. 789 00:47:01,092 --> 00:47:04,112 The only thing that he would take 790 00:47:04,212 --> 00:47:06,213 would be painkillers. 791 00:47:07,253 --> 00:47:11,933 And for those last two weeks, he slowly let go. 792 00:47:14,693 --> 00:47:19,434 There was a huge press of media surrounding the house, you know, 793 00:47:19,534 --> 00:47:22,194 even photographing the groceries in the back of the car 794 00:47:22,294 --> 00:47:23,474 and, you know... 795 00:47:23,574 --> 00:47:25,854 Uh, it was all pretty sick, actually. 796 00:47:27,375 --> 00:47:30,815 I think I tried to run somebody over and failed. 797 00:47:32,175 --> 00:47:34,955 My mum visited him more times than Dad. 798 00:47:35,055 --> 00:47:36,876 I don't think Dad could take it 799 00:47:36,976 --> 00:47:40,836 because he looked like a skeleton towards the end. 800 00:47:40,936 --> 00:47:43,756 And I remember very clearly my dad 801 00:47:43,856 --> 00:47:46,917 was reading one of the many articles 802 00:47:47,017 --> 00:47:51,877 and tears were pouring down his face onto the newspaper, 803 00:47:51,977 --> 00:47:56,237 and he said, "This should have been me instead of Freddie." 804 00:47:56,337 --> 00:47:58,438 I remember that so clearly. 805 00:47:58,538 --> 00:48:00,538 It was so sad. 806 00:48:08,259 --> 00:48:11,599 And now, the shipping forecast. There are warnings of gales 807 00:48:11,699 --> 00:48:15,639 in Thames, Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth... 808 00:48:15,739 --> 00:48:21,520 Joe called me, I think, at about 5:30 in the morning 809 00:48:21,620 --> 00:48:26,120 and Freddie had basically gone into a coma. 810 00:48:26,220 --> 00:48:31,581 So we called the doctor and he made Freddie sort of comfortable. 811 00:48:33,381 --> 00:48:36,361 The doctor had literally just left the house 812 00:48:36,461 --> 00:48:39,802 and we went up, and Freddie had moved. 813 00:48:39,902 --> 00:48:41,962 You could see he had moved a bit. 814 00:48:42,062 --> 00:48:46,882 And as we were changing his T-shirt, 815 00:48:46,982 --> 00:48:51,783 we just looked and saw his chest had stopped moving. 816 00:48:56,183 --> 00:48:58,803 NEWSREADER: A day after revealing to the world that he had Aids, 817 00:48:58,903 --> 00:49:01,304 the rock star Freddie Mercury has died. 818 00:49:02,504 --> 00:49:05,804 The day he died, we spent the whole night at my house in Kensington 819 00:49:05,904 --> 00:49:10,165 at the time, and the three of us just trying to 820 00:49:10,265 --> 00:49:15,125 make sense of it. And then it came up on the news in the early morning. 821 00:49:15,225 --> 00:49:17,085 Good morning from Sarah and me. 822 00:49:17,185 --> 00:49:19,886 You're watching the BBC's Breakfast news. It's 6:30. 823 00:49:19,986 --> 00:49:23,366 The headlines this morning - Monday, the 25th of November. 824 00:49:23,466 --> 00:49:27,486 Maybe it shouldn't have been, but it was an awful shock. 825 00:49:27,586 --> 00:49:32,647 And Roger and John and myself got together, sat... 826 00:49:32,747 --> 00:49:36,767 Um, kind of had a cup of tea, 827 00:49:36,867 --> 00:49:40,368 not knowing what to say. And then we put the TV on. 828 00:49:40,468 --> 00:49:43,808 The pop star Freddie Mercury died last night in London. 829 00:49:43,908 --> 00:49:46,848 We almost stopped breathing because that's when we believed 830 00:49:46,948 --> 00:49:48,168 that it had actually happened. 831 00:49:48,268 --> 00:49:50,308 The fact that it was on the news made it real. 832 00:49:52,829 --> 00:49:55,049 I didn't really see much of Jim. 833 00:49:55,149 --> 00:49:59,409 I think, not being one that lived his life in the public eye, 834 00:49:59,509 --> 00:50:03,810 he didn't want any of that, so...withdrew. 835 00:50:03,910 --> 00:50:06,250 The lead singer with Queen, aged 45, 836 00:50:06,350 --> 00:50:09,170 had announced on Saturday he was suffering from Aids. 837 00:50:09,270 --> 00:50:12,611 It was announced before he died, but he didn't want to go through 838 00:50:12,711 --> 00:50:17,051 the misery of being the object of pity, or scrutiny, 839 00:50:17,151 --> 00:50:19,531 you know, when you're that sick, 840 00:50:19,631 --> 00:50:21,692 so he did announce it, 841 00:50:21,792 --> 00:50:24,452 and within 24 hours, he was gone. 842 00:50:24,552 --> 00:50:28,572 So I think that was probably perfect timing. 843 00:50:28,672 --> 00:50:30,672 Bloody good move, I thought. 844 00:50:33,873 --> 00:50:35,013 OK. OK? 845 00:50:35,113 --> 00:50:36,413 Yeah. 846 00:50:36,513 --> 00:50:38,013 Rolling? Rolling. 847 00:50:38,113 --> 00:50:41,774 Freddie Mercury, er, was an incredible, er, 848 00:50:41,874 --> 00:50:43,734 innovative singer 849 00:50:43,834 --> 00:50:46,214 and frontman for a band. 850 00:50:46,314 --> 00:50:49,054 He was a very dear friend of mine and it was a privilege 851 00:50:49,154 --> 00:50:52,655 to have known him for some of his life. 852 00:50:52,755 --> 00:50:57,415 The press was full of what a wonderful performer Freddie was, 853 00:50:57,515 --> 00:50:59,815 what amazing music he wrote. 854 00:50:59,915 --> 00:51:04,736 Everybody had been saying such wonderful things, nice things. 855 00:51:04,836 --> 00:51:06,996 How very quickly that changed. 856 00:51:09,036 --> 00:51:12,056 The press were pretty shitty, as they normally were. 857 00:51:12,156 --> 00:51:16,257 Freddie dying of Aids, Freddie sleeping around, 858 00:51:16,357 --> 00:51:18,297 so he got what he deserved. 859 00:51:18,397 --> 00:51:22,417 Yeah, I wouldn't single anybody out, except maybe The Sun, I think, 860 00:51:22,517 --> 00:51:25,018 were particularly awful about it. 861 00:51:25,118 --> 00:51:26,218 There was some nice press, 862 00:51:26,318 --> 00:51:28,258 there were some people who were very nice, 863 00:51:28,358 --> 00:51:32,378 but there were people who were unbelievably unsympathetic. 864 00:51:32,478 --> 00:51:37,019 730,000 people using the Aids helpline last year, 865 00:51:37,119 --> 00:51:39,259 those people seeking help and advice. 866 00:51:39,359 --> 00:51:41,819 We've got to be able to give it in school, but we've got 867 00:51:41,919 --> 00:51:44,060 to be able to give it as part of a total picture, 868 00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,580 so that we don't have a great hoo-ha when Freddie Mercury died, 869 00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,700 because he had such a bizarre, and, in my view, 870 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:52,980 quite unacceptable lifestyle. 871 00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:55,101 There was this talk of, well, you know, he was gay, 872 00:51:55,201 --> 00:51:57,301 he kind of deserved it, you know, he lived that kind 873 00:51:57,401 --> 00:51:58,941 of promiscuous lifestyle. 874 00:51:59,041 --> 00:52:00,181 It was going to happen. 875 00:52:00,281 --> 00:52:01,861 You know, that, that... 876 00:52:01,961 --> 00:52:05,622 And we thought, Oh, my God, you people have no idea 877 00:52:05,722 --> 00:52:08,102 of what this disease really is, 878 00:52:08,202 --> 00:52:10,942 and obviously no feeling 879 00:52:11,042 --> 00:52:14,022 about the morality of what you're saying. 880 00:52:14,122 --> 00:52:15,623 Roger Taylor and Brian May are with us. 881 00:52:15,723 --> 00:52:17,183 The death of Freddie Mercury... 882 00:52:17,283 --> 00:52:23,103 Brian and I decided to say something on breakfast TV or something. 883 00:52:23,203 --> 00:52:26,424 It's been quite distressing to read some of the, erm, the reports 884 00:52:26,524 --> 00:52:27,504 in the press. 885 00:52:27,604 --> 00:52:30,784 Not quite sure what we want to do, but just to say that this press 886 00:52:30,884 --> 00:52:32,704 is disgusting, 887 00:52:32,804 --> 00:52:34,464 and what a terrible attitude, 888 00:52:34,564 --> 00:52:37,305 and, er, there we were, stuck with Paul Daniels. 889 00:52:37,405 --> 00:52:39,225 Paul Daniels is listening here. 890 00:52:39,325 --> 00:52:42,465 Were you a fan of Queen and of Freddie Mercury? 891 00:52:42,565 --> 00:52:43,705 Well, no, cos I... 892 00:52:43,805 --> 00:52:46,346 We were in a bit of a daze, to be honest. 893 00:52:46,446 --> 00:52:48,426 It hit us very hard. 894 00:52:48,526 --> 00:52:50,266 We were very angry, 895 00:52:50,366 --> 00:52:52,786 and we had to stick up for our friend, 896 00:52:52,886 --> 00:52:54,786 you know, our best friend. 897 00:52:54,886 --> 00:52:57,227 Freddie made one crucial decision before he died, 898 00:52:57,327 --> 00:52:59,787 which was to announce the fact that he did have Aids. 899 00:52:59,887 --> 00:53:04,147 It was a very brave, and, I think, well-timed act on his part, 900 00:53:04,247 --> 00:53:08,148 because it gave us and those close to us a kind of weapon 901 00:53:08,248 --> 00:53:09,748 erm, to talk about Aids, you know, 902 00:53:09,848 --> 00:53:12,428 it would have been very easy for him to put on his death certificate, 903 00:53:12,528 --> 00:53:13,908 pneumonia, you know, which he knew, 904 00:53:14,008 --> 00:53:16,269 and it could have perhaps sidestepped the whole thing. 905 00:53:16,369 --> 00:53:19,069 The fact that he announced it, and said, "Look, I've got this", 906 00:53:19,169 --> 00:53:22,429 and he was, there was no shame to that, I think is very important, 907 00:53:22,529 --> 00:53:25,669 cos there shouldn't be from this point, well, not from ANY point, 908 00:53:25,769 --> 00:53:27,910 any stigma to having this disease. 909 00:53:28,010 --> 00:53:30,710 It's nothing to do with, you know, somebody did something wrong. 910 00:53:30,810 --> 00:53:32,910 He's being punished. That's got to go. It has to go, 911 00:53:33,010 --> 00:53:35,310 you know, it's everybody's problem now. 912 00:53:35,410 --> 00:53:37,711 At that point, we thought we're not going to let Freddie 913 00:53:37,811 --> 00:53:39,991 be perceived in history as a victim, 914 00:53:40,091 --> 00:53:43,111 or as someone who threw himself in front of a train, 915 00:53:43,211 --> 00:53:45,671 and if we're going to talk about Aids, we should bring 916 00:53:45,771 --> 00:53:47,152 everything out into the open. 917 00:53:47,252 --> 00:53:50,172 Freddie isn't the only person who is being vilified... 918 00:53:52,772 --> 00:53:54,512 ..before AND after his death 919 00:53:54,612 --> 00:53:57,232 by people who think that Aids is some kind of revenge 920 00:53:57,332 --> 00:53:59,333 against gay people. 921 00:54:00,413 --> 00:54:03,473 ♪ Is this the real life? ♪ 922 00:54:03,573 --> 00:54:07,593 I felt that it was a waste of a lovely, talented life. 923 00:54:07,693 --> 00:54:09,954 ♪ Is this just fantasy? ♪ 924 00:54:10,054 --> 00:54:14,394 But also for those people who died in the same period as Freddie, 925 00:54:14,494 --> 00:54:18,955 it was such a bad stigma, and the shame behind it all, 926 00:54:19,055 --> 00:54:21,795 that a lot of families didn't understand. 927 00:54:21,895 --> 00:54:24,555 ♪ Caught in a landslide 928 00:54:24,655 --> 00:54:25,955 ♪ No escape from reality. ♪ 929 00:54:26,055 --> 00:54:29,796 People died on their own, which I thought is such a shame. 930 00:54:29,896 --> 00:54:31,596 ♪ Open your eyes... ♪ 931 00:54:31,696 --> 00:54:35,996 Queen is to rerelease its best-known hit Bohemian Rhapsody next month, 932 00:54:36,096 --> 00:54:38,637 with the proceeds going to an Aids charity. 933 00:54:38,737 --> 00:54:42,077 You have doubts about everything. You think, are we capitalising on his death? 934 00:54:42,177 --> 00:54:43,597 Is this maybe a tasteless thing to do? 935 00:54:43,697 --> 00:54:44,957 And we thought, no, we put it out, 936 00:54:45,057 --> 00:54:46,757 and all the profits will go to charity. 937 00:54:46,857 --> 00:54:49,918 I think one of the results of his life can be that people 938 00:54:50,018 --> 00:54:51,958 have a different attitude to people being gay. 939 00:54:52,058 --> 00:54:53,238 I really hope so. 940 00:54:53,338 --> 00:54:56,638 Here's a guy who was strong, who was incredibly talented, 941 00:54:56,738 --> 00:54:58,918 quite magnificent in every way you can think of, 942 00:54:59,018 --> 00:55:01,319 and he was gay, and was quite public about it. 943 00:55:01,419 --> 00:55:03,919 So I don't think anyone can ever quite feel the same 944 00:55:04,019 --> 00:55:07,279 about that any more, and it's time, God knows, you know? 945 00:55:07,379 --> 00:55:09,920 ♪ Too late 946 00:55:10,020 --> 00:55:12,100 ♪ My time has come... ♪ 947 00:55:13,420 --> 00:55:17,320 Obviously, the band was effectively finished at that point, 948 00:55:17,420 --> 00:55:20,601 so I remember thinking, well, what can we do? 949 00:55:20,701 --> 00:55:22,881 ♪ Goodbye, everybody... ♪ 950 00:55:22,981 --> 00:55:26,841 Well, we could have a concert to honour our friend, 951 00:55:26,941 --> 00:55:31,082 and I became sort of fixated with the idea of giving him 952 00:55:31,182 --> 00:55:32,762 a hell of a send-off, 953 00:55:32,862 --> 00:55:37,622 and at the same time, promoting awareness about HIV, Aids. 954 00:55:40,783 --> 00:55:45,203 I remember showing Brian, "Look, I reckon we can get this lot, here, 955 00:55:45,303 --> 00:55:47,483 you know, all these great artists". 956 00:55:47,583 --> 00:55:50,243 He said, "Well, I don't know". 957 00:55:50,343 --> 00:55:52,644 He didn't really believe in it, I think, at first, 958 00:55:52,744 --> 00:55:57,084 then it's, "Well, if you can get that lot, I'm in". 959 00:55:57,184 --> 00:56:00,764 I remember I went in to Harvey Goldsmith, the promoter, 960 00:56:00,864 --> 00:56:04,805 with our manager, Jim Beach, and he looked up, and we said, 961 00:56:04,905 --> 00:56:06,845 "We want Wembley Stadium". 962 00:56:06,945 --> 00:56:09,765 And he said, "Who's going to sing?" 963 00:56:09,865 --> 00:56:13,086 And so we said, "Well, I've got this list". 964 00:56:13,186 --> 00:56:16,806 And he just looked at me, and said, "You're mad". 965 00:56:16,906 --> 00:56:19,146 And I thought, "Well, are we? Maybe we are". 966 00:56:20,906 --> 00:56:26,487 I'm the wet nappy service that runs 24 hours a day, that's what I do. 967 00:56:26,587 --> 00:56:29,967 Booking Wembley Stadium, speak to the bookings department, 968 00:56:30,067 --> 00:56:33,008 and say is May the 4th available, 969 00:56:33,108 --> 00:56:36,408 and if they say yes, they send you a contract, 970 00:56:36,508 --> 00:56:38,368 and you have to pay them a load of money. 971 00:56:38,468 --> 00:56:40,468 That's it! 972 00:56:41,628 --> 00:56:45,689 Once that date's set, that show's happening, so then the question is, 973 00:56:45,789 --> 00:56:47,789 who do we get? 974 00:56:50,349 --> 00:56:53,530 Well, I think the first person I called was Elton, 975 00:56:53,630 --> 00:56:55,950 because I knew he was a shoo-in. 976 00:56:57,230 --> 00:57:00,050 Elton and Freddie were great friends, and I know Elton 977 00:57:00,150 --> 00:57:03,171 was particularly supportive in the last days. 978 00:57:03,271 --> 00:57:06,771 Just what you would want from a really good friend. 979 00:57:06,871 --> 00:57:08,531 And I rang up David Bowie. 980 00:57:08,631 --> 00:57:10,531 I said, you know, you can do Under Pressure. 981 00:57:10,631 --> 00:57:13,052 And he said, "Well, who would I sing it with?" 982 00:57:13,152 --> 00:57:16,252 And I thought, I know Annie Lennox loves David Bowie. 983 00:57:16,352 --> 00:57:18,372 He said, "Well, I'll do it with Annie". 984 00:57:18,472 --> 00:57:19,972 So I rang up Annie, 985 00:57:20,072 --> 00:57:23,813 and I said, "Bowie will do it". She said, "I'll do it". 986 00:57:23,913 --> 00:57:25,173 Two psychiatrists... 987 00:57:25,273 --> 00:57:27,893 No, rather, two psychics pass each other on the street, 988 00:57:27,993 --> 00:57:30,093 and one says to the other, 989 00:57:30,193 --> 00:57:32,613 "You're doing all right. How am I?" 990 00:57:32,713 --> 00:57:35,074 And it kind of went on from that. 991 00:57:38,634 --> 00:57:40,574 First of all, how are the rehearsals going here? 992 00:57:40,674 --> 00:57:42,974 They're going tremendously well, I mean, er, 993 00:57:43,074 --> 00:57:46,935 I think Queen themselves have taken on an incredible amount of work. 994 00:57:47,035 --> 00:57:50,775 ♪ Mm ba-ba, mm ba-ba 995 00:57:50,875 --> 00:57:52,655 ♪ Bada-boom ba-bai-ya... ♪ 996 00:57:52,755 --> 00:57:57,096 You know, we'd lost Keith Moon, so I knew what they were going 997 00:57:57,196 --> 00:57:59,656 to be going through, emotionally, themselves, 998 00:57:59,756 --> 00:58:01,736 and it's incredibly traumatic, 999 00:58:01,836 --> 00:58:02,896 I can't tell you. 1000 00:58:02,996 --> 00:58:04,176 ♪ Pressure 1001 00:58:04,276 --> 00:58:06,137 ♪ Pushing down on me 1002 00:58:06,237 --> 00:58:08,017 ♪ Pressing down on you 1003 00:58:08,117 --> 00:58:10,057 ♪ No man ask for 1004 00:58:10,157 --> 00:58:11,217 ♪ Under pressure... ♪ 1005 00:58:11,317 --> 00:58:14,337 David Bowie's doing it, and then Roger Daltrey's doing it, 1006 00:58:14,437 --> 00:58:15,658 Robert Plant's doing it. 1007 00:58:15,758 --> 00:58:18,938 All kinds of people who were really heroes to us. 1008 00:58:19,038 --> 00:58:22,738 ♪ It's the terror of knowing what this world is about... ♪ 1009 00:58:22,838 --> 00:58:25,019 And then a lot of people who were there, younger than us, 1010 00:58:25,119 --> 00:58:28,779 to who Freddie had been a hero, so, Extreme, Metallica, 1011 00:58:28,879 --> 00:58:30,299 Guns N Roses, 1012 00:58:30,399 --> 00:58:33,299 and everybody said, "Ah! Guns N Roses will never turn up!" 1013 00:58:33,399 --> 00:58:35,400 ♪ People on streets...♪ 1014 00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:37,860 Everybody was there. 1015 00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:41,500 It was just like a sort of fame fest. Ha-ha! 1016 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,340 I'm doing I Want To Break Free. 1017 00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:46,101 I'm doing that on my own, 1018 00:58:46,201 --> 00:58:48,541 and I'm doing a duet with George Michael. 1019 00:58:48,641 --> 00:58:50,861 I'm doing These Are The Days Of Our Lives. 1020 00:58:50,961 --> 00:58:52,501 They offered me this song, 1021 00:58:52,601 --> 00:58:54,301 I Want To Break Free, 1022 00:58:54,401 --> 00:58:57,182 and I said to Roger Taylor, 1023 00:58:57,282 --> 00:59:01,262 "I hope you don't think that this is really bad taste, 1024 00:59:01,362 --> 00:59:06,703 "but do you think it would be really good if I had a vacuum cleaner 1025 00:59:06,803 --> 00:59:11,263 "on the stage, and put rollers in a net in my hair, 1026 00:59:11,363 --> 00:59:13,063 "like Freddie on the video?" 1027 00:59:13,163 --> 00:59:16,023 And Roger Taylor was so lovely, and he got hold of me, 1028 00:59:16,123 --> 00:59:17,304 and he just said, 1029 00:59:17,404 --> 00:59:21,144 "Bad taste is what this band is all about, darling!" 1030 00:59:21,244 --> 00:59:23,664 And it was so lovely, and that's it, 1031 00:59:23,764 --> 00:59:26,104 that was that. 1032 00:59:26,204 --> 00:59:30,665 I think at rehearsals, there was a definite feel of respect 1033 00:59:30,765 --> 00:59:32,185 and a responsibility. 1034 00:59:32,285 --> 00:59:34,105 ♪ Pressure... 1035 00:59:34,205 --> 00:59:35,345 ♪ Pressure. ♪ 1036 00:59:35,445 --> 00:59:38,626 It's scary enough to play with Queen anyway, and also thinking 1037 00:59:38,726 --> 00:59:41,146 that you're taking the place of someone that was such 1038 00:59:41,246 --> 00:59:43,246 an incredible performer. 1039 00:59:45,846 --> 00:59:48,467 Queen were the first concert we ever saw. 1040 00:59:48,567 --> 00:59:49,707 We were 11. 1041 00:59:49,807 --> 00:59:52,227 I mean, we were enthralled. 1042 00:59:52,327 --> 00:59:57,067 So George's only stipulation was that he wanted to sing 1043 00:59:57,167 --> 00:59:58,468 Somebody To Love. 1044 00:59:58,568 --> 01:00:01,308 ♪ Each morning, I get up, I die a little 1045 01:00:01,408 --> 01:00:04,508 ♪ Can barely stand on my feet 1046 01:00:04,608 --> 01:00:08,269 ♪ Take a look in the mirror and cry 1047 01:00:08,369 --> 01:00:10,949 ♪ Lord, what are you doing to me? ♪ 1048 01:00:11,049 --> 01:00:14,429 "I look in the mirror every morning and I cry and cry. 1049 01:00:14,529 --> 01:00:17,109 "Please, God, send me someone to love". 1050 01:00:17,209 --> 01:00:18,510 ♪ Lord! 1051 01:00:18,610 --> 01:00:20,190 ♪ (Somebody) Oh, somebody 1052 01:00:20,290 --> 01:00:24,750 ♪ (Somebody) Can anybody find me 1053 01:00:24,850 --> 01:00:27,630 ♪ Somebody to love? ♪ 1054 01:00:27,730 --> 01:00:30,271 He had the world at his feet, 1055 01:00:30,371 --> 01:00:33,191 sold a hundred million records by this time. 1056 01:00:33,291 --> 01:00:34,991 ♪ I work hard (He works hard) 1057 01:00:35,091 --> 01:00:36,591 ♪ Every day of my life... ♪ 1058 01:00:36,691 --> 01:00:40,632 But he never found love, and that was tough for him. 1059 01:00:40,732 --> 01:00:43,872 ♪ (At the end of the day) I take home my hard-earned pay... ♪ 1060 01:00:43,972 --> 01:00:48,872 I was very close to George, and George was a very complicated guy. 1061 01:00:48,972 --> 01:00:54,353 We all knew that George was gay, and at the time, he clearly hadn't 1062 01:00:54,453 --> 01:00:56,553 come to terms with it himself. 1063 01:00:56,653 --> 01:01:00,234 ♪ Can anybody find me 1064 01:01:00,334 --> 01:01:02,394 ♪ Somebody to love? ♪ 1065 01:01:02,494 --> 01:01:05,154 So, when I was 19, I came out to various friends, 1066 01:01:05,254 --> 01:01:06,194 and one of my sisters, 1067 01:01:06,294 --> 01:01:08,234 and I said I was going to talk to my mum and dad, 1068 01:01:08,334 --> 01:01:11,155 and was persuaded, in no uncertain terms, 1069 01:01:11,255 --> 01:01:13,635 that it really wasn't the best idea. 1070 01:01:13,735 --> 01:01:17,515 There was this sort of weird stigma attached to it all, 1071 01:01:17,615 --> 01:01:20,556 and it was like because he was this sex symbol 1072 01:01:20,656 --> 01:01:23,916 that he couldn't come out of the closet. 1073 01:01:24,016 --> 01:01:27,516 This was one lie that I'd been kind of trying to tell people 1074 01:01:27,616 --> 01:01:30,517 in my own way for years and years, and I don't think 1075 01:01:30,617 --> 01:01:32,357 I would have had the same career. 1076 01:01:32,457 --> 01:01:36,397 My ego might not have been satisfied in some areas quite as much, 1077 01:01:36,497 --> 01:01:38,577 but I think I would have been a happier man. 1078 01:01:42,618 --> 01:01:46,718 The week of rehearsals, we were there four days out of five, 1079 01:01:46,818 --> 01:01:49,238 and that's where that video comes from, me and him, 1080 01:01:49,338 --> 01:01:51,839 behind Roger's drum kit, 1081 01:01:51,939 --> 01:01:56,799 watching Bowie and Annie Lennox, that was the last day, 1082 01:01:56,899 --> 01:01:58,839 and when they finished, 1083 01:01:58,939 --> 01:02:01,480 he did his rehearsal, yet again. 1084 01:02:01,580 --> 01:02:04,680 Four days in a row. No-one did that. 1085 01:02:04,780 --> 01:02:08,960 ♪ Can anybody find me... ♪ 1086 01:02:09,060 --> 01:02:11,401 There's a definite feeling when George went out and did 1087 01:02:11,501 --> 01:02:13,721 Somebody To Love that he'd absolutely nailed it. 1088 01:02:13,821 --> 01:02:18,261 ♪ Somebody t-o-o-o-o-o-o-o... ♪ 1089 01:02:20,221 --> 01:02:23,222 There weren't any tantrums, there wasn't anything like that. 1090 01:02:24,782 --> 01:02:27,002 ♪ (Find me somebody)... ♪ 1091 01:02:27,102 --> 01:02:30,362 Nobody was more important than anybody else. 1092 01:02:30,462 --> 01:02:33,403 There wasn't one person who was making a fuss, 1093 01:02:33,503 --> 01:02:35,503 cos there's always usually one. 1094 01:02:37,903 --> 01:02:44,464 L-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-v-v-v-v-e? ♪ 1095 01:02:48,504 --> 01:02:49,444 All right! 1096 01:02:49,544 --> 01:02:50,604 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 1097 01:02:50,704 --> 01:02:53,325 The old school building in Notting Hill has become Britain's 1098 01:02:53,425 --> 01:02:56,565 first purpose-built Aids hospice. 1099 01:02:56,665 --> 01:02:58,445 I'd been working at... 1100 01:02:58,545 --> 01:03:00,245 Well, not working, I'd been volunteering 1101 01:03:00,345 --> 01:03:02,005 at London Lighthouse. 1102 01:03:02,105 --> 01:03:04,106 People with HIV could... 1103 01:03:05,026 --> 01:03:11,606 ..go for respites, go for security, go for counselling, 1104 01:03:11,706 --> 01:03:13,847 and their friends could go along to visit them. 1105 01:03:13,947 --> 01:03:15,567 It was a safe place. 1106 01:03:15,667 --> 01:03:19,827 And I managed to get tickets through one of my friends who worked there. 1107 01:03:21,507 --> 01:03:25,448 I've never been a concert-goer. Apart from Tina Turner, bizarrely. 1108 01:03:25,548 --> 01:03:26,608 And so I had to go to Wembley - 1109 01:03:26,708 --> 01:03:28,488 I'd never been to a football match at Wembley, 1110 01:03:28,588 --> 01:03:30,588 so I wasn't aware of the space of it. 1111 01:03:32,508 --> 01:03:35,089 And when we got there, it was like, wow. 1112 01:03:35,189 --> 01:03:37,529 CROWD ROARS 1113 01:03:37,629 --> 01:03:38,689 A very good afternoon. 1114 01:03:38,789 --> 01:03:41,409 PRESENTER: Freddie Mercury died of Aids in November of last year. 1115 01:03:41,509 --> 01:03:43,729 Love and respect for the man, together with a passionate 1116 01:03:43,829 --> 01:03:45,970 commitment to do something about the disease, 1117 01:03:46,070 --> 01:03:48,530 has led to this event. Some of the great names in world... 1118 01:03:48,630 --> 01:03:52,930 We had great seats and I felt privileged to be there. 1119 01:03:53,030 --> 01:03:57,731 72,000 packed inside, tens of thousands are still arriving 1120 01:03:57,831 --> 01:04:01,491 and half a billion people watching on TV, on satellite 1121 01:04:01,591 --> 01:04:03,291 around the world. 1122 01:04:03,391 --> 01:04:06,132 In a way, the concert is quite important for us cos it's our way 1123 01:04:06,232 --> 01:04:08,012 of saying goodbye to Freddie as well. 1124 01:04:08,112 --> 01:04:10,172 And I think we need to do that before our minds 1125 01:04:10,272 --> 01:04:12,272 can really move on. 1126 01:04:16,273 --> 01:04:18,373 Good evening, Wembley and the world! 1127 01:04:18,473 --> 01:04:20,713 CROWD CHEERS 1128 01:04:21,753 --> 01:04:24,813 We are here tonight to celebrate 1129 01:04:24,913 --> 01:04:29,814 the life and work and dreams of one Freddie Mercury. 1130 01:04:29,914 --> 01:04:32,174 CROWD CHEERS 1131 01:04:32,274 --> 01:04:35,895 You have to have something that attracts people to hear 1132 01:04:35,995 --> 01:04:39,775 the message that needs to be said, and nothing on this planet 1133 01:04:39,875 --> 01:04:41,875 will ever beat music. 1134 01:04:42,835 --> 01:04:46,616 They're number one all over the world right now. 1135 01:04:46,716 --> 01:04:49,736 Please welcome on stage Def Leppard! 1136 01:04:49,836 --> 01:04:52,096 CROWD CHEERS 1137 01:04:52,196 --> 01:04:54,416 Good evening! 1138 01:04:54,516 --> 01:04:56,597 Are you all enjoying yourselves? 1139 01:04:58,637 --> 01:04:59,737 It unites people. 1140 01:04:59,837 --> 01:05:03,417 MUSIC: Now I'm Here by Queen 1141 01:05:03,517 --> 01:05:06,618 ♪ Here I stand Here I stand 1142 01:05:06,718 --> 01:05:08,938 ♪ Looked around, around, around... ♪ 1143 01:05:09,038 --> 01:05:13,098 'Essentially, what we have with this show is the celebration 1144 01:05:13,198 --> 01:05:15,298 'of the life of a musician' 1145 01:05:15,398 --> 01:05:20,299 who just happened to be gay, who died of the consequences of Aids. 1146 01:05:20,399 --> 01:05:23,359 ♪ Now I'm there Now I'm there... ♪ 1147 01:05:24,559 --> 01:05:28,700 That in itself is incredible and juxtaposition in 1992, 1148 01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:32,220 because it was improving, but it was still a homophobic world. 1149 01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:35,620 ♪ Just a new man 1150 01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:38,581 ♪ Yes, you made me live again... ♪ 1151 01:05:38,681 --> 01:05:41,661 'And I think that fact that you've got this, what you might call, 1152 01:05:41,761 --> 01:05:45,501 very heterosexual rock opening up the show for the first hour, 1153 01:05:45,601 --> 01:05:48,262 I think that juxtaposition is actually beneficial. 1154 01:05:48,362 --> 01:05:51,582 ♪ A baby I was when you took my hand 1155 01:05:51,682 --> 01:05:54,542 ♪ The light of the night burned bright... ♪ 1156 01:05:54,642 --> 01:05:57,983 'If you'd have just been an entirely gay collection of musicians, 1157 01:05:58,083 --> 01:05:59,183 'it wouldn't have worked.' 1158 01:05:59,283 --> 01:06:01,583 ♪ But you knew my name on sight... ♪ 1159 01:06:01,683 --> 01:06:05,783 If you look back at how the show flowed and who performed on it, 1160 01:06:05,883 --> 01:06:08,104 it doesn't really make any sense. 1161 01:06:08,204 --> 01:06:10,544 Please welcome Metallica. 1162 01:06:10,644 --> 01:06:14,424 'The last thing you'd expect is a band like Metallica 1163 01:06:14,524 --> 01:06:16,504 'to be playing an Aids awareness show' 1164 01:06:16,604 --> 01:06:17,944 and a tribute to Freddie Mercury. 1165 01:06:18,044 --> 01:06:20,745 ♪ Don't I love you so... ♪ 1166 01:06:20,845 --> 01:06:24,625 Here for Aids awareness is Guns N' Roses. 1167 01:06:24,725 --> 01:06:26,905 This is Guns N' Roses, 1992. 1168 01:06:27,005 --> 01:06:29,866 They were completely off their face. 1169 01:06:29,966 --> 01:06:33,266 I remember seeing Duff, bless him, sat on the stairs. 1170 01:06:33,366 --> 01:06:34,626 He couldn't even speak. 1171 01:06:34,726 --> 01:06:36,146 He couldn't speak. 1172 01:06:36,246 --> 01:06:38,426 And this is an hour before they went on. 1173 01:06:38,526 --> 01:06:40,187 How are you feeling before you go on? 1174 01:06:40,287 --> 01:06:42,307 I just woke up. You just woke up? 1175 01:06:42,407 --> 01:06:45,467 And I'm thinking, "Oh, boy, I can't wait to see this." 1176 01:06:45,567 --> 01:06:47,907 Yet when they went on stage, he was amazing. 1177 01:06:48,007 --> 01:06:51,068 ♪ Whatever comes of you and me 1178 01:06:51,168 --> 01:06:52,948 I'd love to leave my memory... ♪ 1179 01:06:53,048 --> 01:06:55,268 'There would have been a lot of heterosexual people 1180 01:06:55,368 --> 01:06:56,548 'that loved Queen that went,' 1181 01:06:56,648 --> 01:06:58,648 "Oh, I'm not keen on the gay lifestyle bit." 1182 01:07:01,369 --> 01:07:04,549 But to the majority, most people just didn't care. 1183 01:07:04,649 --> 01:07:06,709 They were there to celebrate Fred. 1184 01:07:06,809 --> 01:07:09,029 Thank you! See you soon, all right? 1185 01:07:09,129 --> 01:07:10,390 Goodnight! 1186 01:07:10,490 --> 01:07:13,230 BIG ROCK CRESCENDO 1187 01:07:13,330 --> 01:07:16,130 CHEERING FADES 1188 01:07:18,210 --> 01:07:23,631 I first discovered Queen in my last years at school. 1189 01:07:23,731 --> 01:07:28,391 Everybody at school was saying how I looked like Freddie Mercury. 1190 01:07:28,491 --> 01:07:29,911 The man changed my life. 1191 01:07:30,011 --> 01:07:34,352 From being a 16-year-old blood getting mick took out of him 1192 01:07:34,452 --> 01:07:36,632 for goofy teeth and Bugs Bunny 1193 01:07:36,732 --> 01:07:39,472 to being a good-looking chap who could go round town 1194 01:07:39,572 --> 01:07:41,233 and sing and dance. 1195 01:07:41,333 --> 01:07:43,453 It just changed me completely. 1196 01:07:45,133 --> 01:07:47,133 Are you ready? 1197 01:07:47,573 --> 01:07:49,853 MUSIC: Another One Bites the Dust by Queen 1198 01:07:51,534 --> 01:07:53,434 'There was this one' 1199 01:07:53,534 --> 01:07:56,314 guy who was dressed like Freddie on someone's shoulders. 1200 01:07:56,414 --> 01:07:58,414 Do it! 1201 01:07:58,814 --> 01:08:01,995 He encapsulated that audience for me. 1202 01:08:02,095 --> 01:08:05,635 Every gesture, every motion, it was bleeding out of him. 1203 01:08:05,735 --> 01:08:08,735 MUSIC: Keep Yourself Alive by Queen 1204 01:08:09,895 --> 01:08:13,196 He just looked and then he did, like, a double take... 1205 01:08:13,296 --> 01:08:14,876 ♪ Keep yourself alive Come on 1206 01:08:14,976 --> 01:08:16,076 ♪ Keep yourself alive... ♪ 1207 01:08:16,176 --> 01:08:18,436 ..and he just started laughing, and I remember that 1208 01:08:18,536 --> 01:08:19,996 like it were yesterday. 1209 01:08:20,096 --> 01:08:22,637 MUSIC: Radio Ga Ga by Queen 1210 01:08:22,737 --> 01:08:24,797 ♪ All we hear is... ♪ 1211 01:08:24,897 --> 01:08:28,797 You could see individuals celebrate the music and, you know, 1212 01:08:28,897 --> 01:08:30,957 lose themselves and express themselves. 1213 01:08:31,057 --> 01:08:31,997 Sing it! 1214 01:08:32,097 --> 01:08:35,638 ♪ All we hear is radio ga ga 1215 01:08:35,738 --> 01:08:37,078 ♪ Radio, what's new...? ♪ 1216 01:08:37,178 --> 01:08:41,238 'It wasn't just another singalong - it was more than that.' 1217 01:08:41,338 --> 01:08:42,759 It was visceral. 1218 01:08:42,859 --> 01:08:49,179 ♪ Someone still loves you. ♪ 1219 01:08:51,179 --> 01:08:53,180 Thank you! 1220 01:08:53,940 --> 01:08:56,240 'Of course, we were the beginning of the event,' 1221 01:08:56,340 --> 01:08:58,520 and it was that way throughout the whole day. 1222 01:08:58,620 --> 01:09:00,620 Goodnight! 1223 01:09:06,501 --> 01:09:08,741 CROWD CHEERS 1224 01:09:10,661 --> 01:09:12,361 CROWD CHANTS "FREDDIE, FREDDIE!" 1225 01:09:12,461 --> 01:09:16,402 I think I learned that day just 1226 01:09:16,502 --> 01:09:21,402 what an incredible force he was, 1227 01:09:21,502 --> 01:09:25,863 not just his voice, but the man himself. 1228 01:09:29,703 --> 01:09:33,283 All right, we're about to go in to the second half of the concert 1229 01:09:33,383 --> 01:09:37,044 in which the three members of Queen will perform with a remarkable 1230 01:09:37,144 --> 01:09:39,524 series of collaborators. 1231 01:09:39,624 --> 01:09:43,624 There was an energy that day that was unbelievable. 1232 01:09:44,825 --> 01:09:47,485 Next, the lead singer from The Who, Roger Daltrey, 1233 01:09:47,585 --> 01:09:50,965 along with Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon from Queen. 1234 01:09:51,065 --> 01:09:53,105 MUSIC: Pinball Wizard by The Who 1235 01:09:55,826 --> 01:09:57,946 And it was because of one person. 1236 01:09:59,946 --> 01:10:03,086 They lost Freddie, so I can imagine what they were going through. 1237 01:10:03,186 --> 01:10:06,607 It must have been incredibly traumatic, but I'm sure that once 1238 01:10:06,707 --> 01:10:10,247 they heard their music again, even though it's being done 1239 01:10:10,347 --> 01:10:14,167 differently by me and the other artists, it must have just 1240 01:10:14,267 --> 01:10:15,408 given them a lift. 1241 01:10:15,508 --> 01:10:16,808 MUSIC: I Want It All by Queen 1242 01:10:16,908 --> 01:10:19,168 ♪ I want it all 1243 01:10:19,268 --> 01:10:24,288 ♪ I want it all I want it all 1244 01:10:24,388 --> 01:10:26,389 ♪ And I want it now... ♪ 1245 01:10:28,789 --> 01:10:32,529 I think for the boys, it was a catharsis. 1246 01:10:32,629 --> 01:10:36,530 It was a way of saying goodbye, but saying goodbye in front 1247 01:10:36,630 --> 01:10:41,450 of everybody, saying this was someone we loved deeply. 1248 01:10:41,550 --> 01:10:44,810 Our next guest is Mr Paul Young. 1249 01:10:44,910 --> 01:10:46,771 I did feel the sense of loss in the stadium. 1250 01:10:46,871 --> 01:10:50,611 I mean, I felt that the fans were there to celebrate Freddie. 1251 01:10:50,711 --> 01:10:54,291 ♪ All we hear is radio ga ga... ♪ 1252 01:10:54,391 --> 01:10:55,571 'But I did feel it' 1253 01:10:55,671 --> 01:10:57,672 from the band as well. 1254 01:10:59,152 --> 01:11:01,372 It was like my childhood was all coming on stage - 1255 01:11:01,472 --> 01:11:04,412 all the singers that I'd idolised. 1256 01:11:04,512 --> 01:11:08,133 ♪ Pray tomorrow takes me higher 1257 01:11:08,233 --> 01:11:12,093 ♪ Pressure on people, people on streets... ♪ 1258 01:11:12,193 --> 01:11:14,533 When you say stepping into his shoes, that really brings 1259 01:11:14,633 --> 01:11:17,254 it home, you know, cos that's what we were trying to do. 1260 01:11:17,354 --> 01:11:19,334 'Please, give me a break!' 1261 01:11:19,434 --> 01:11:21,734 I was not trying to be Freddie Mercury. 1262 01:11:21,834 --> 01:11:23,854 'You do your best. That's all you do.' 1263 01:11:23,954 --> 01:11:26,494 ♪ I want it all 1264 01:11:26,594 --> 01:11:30,935 ♪ I want it all I want it all 1265 01:11:31,035 --> 01:11:33,455 ♪ And I want it now... ♪ 1266 01:11:33,555 --> 01:11:36,495 I know it sounds really, really corny, 1267 01:11:36,595 --> 01:11:41,056 but it was really like he was watching and if he'd have been 1268 01:11:41,156 --> 01:11:43,976 there, he's have been saying, "No, do it like that and you do 1269 01:11:44,076 --> 01:11:47,376 it like that," so you were trying to listen to what he would say. 1270 01:11:47,476 --> 01:11:50,097 ♪ I want to break free from your lies 1271 01:11:50,197 --> 01:11:55,697 ♪ You're so self satisfied I don't need you... ♪ 1272 01:11:55,797 --> 01:11:57,217 'And you really wanted to' 1273 01:11:57,317 --> 01:12:00,698 make him feel proud and you wanted to make Queen feel proud. 1274 01:12:00,798 --> 01:12:02,218 ♪ God knows. ♪ 1275 01:12:02,318 --> 01:12:04,858 You know, it's all about the band, as well. 1276 01:12:04,958 --> 01:12:07,778 And they played so well, Roger and Brian and John. 1277 01:12:07,878 --> 01:12:09,619 And I'm just pleased for them. 1278 01:12:09,719 --> 01:12:11,499 It's going to be a very emotional day for them. 1279 01:12:11,599 --> 01:12:14,439 MUSIC: Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen 1280 01:12:18,239 --> 01:12:21,140 ♪ Mama 1281 01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:23,740 ♪ Just killed a man... ♪ 1282 01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:27,460 Well, it was obvious why it was important for Elton to perform 1283 01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:31,501 because he was the most vocal of all the gay musicians. 1284 01:12:31,601 --> 01:12:36,981 ♪ Mama, life had just begun... ♪ 1285 01:12:37,081 --> 01:12:42,742 Elton and Freddie were very close, and I remember Elton 1286 01:12:42,842 --> 01:12:45,142 during the rehearsals being just very sombre. 1287 01:12:45,242 --> 01:12:47,582 ♪ Mama 1288 01:12:47,682 --> 01:12:49,262 ♪ Oooh... ♪ 1289 01:12:49,362 --> 01:12:55,303 With Axl Rose, he had the reputation for turning up at a gig 1290 01:12:55,403 --> 01:12:59,423 and then going on stage two hours late, and all the rest of it, 1291 01:12:59,523 --> 01:13:02,624 and there was a lot of controversy about Axl. 1292 01:13:02,724 --> 01:13:07,224 Axl said some fairly unwise and could be construed as 1293 01:13:07,324 --> 01:13:10,385 homophobic statements. 1294 01:13:10,485 --> 01:13:14,785 'And one of my real dreams at the time was to get them together' 1295 01:13:14,885 --> 01:13:16,585 on Bohemian Rhapsody. 1296 01:13:16,685 --> 01:13:21,266 ♪ Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go... ♪ 1297 01:13:21,366 --> 01:13:24,426 But we never knew if Axl was actually going to turn up, 1298 01:13:24,526 --> 01:13:30,587 cos he didn't turn up to rehearsals and he was famously unpredictable. 1299 01:13:30,687 --> 01:13:32,987 It was such a dangerous thing to do at the time. 1300 01:13:33,087 --> 01:13:36,707 Axl Rose and Elton John, you know what I mean? 1301 01:13:36,807 --> 01:13:39,427 You'd imagine it to be the biggest road crash ever. 1302 01:13:39,527 --> 01:13:44,148 ♪ I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all... ♪ 1303 01:13:44,248 --> 01:13:46,348 We left our door open so that we could see 1304 01:13:46,448 --> 01:13:48,348 who was milling around outside. 1305 01:13:48,448 --> 01:13:51,789 We saw Elton walk past our door and then he kind of must have done 1306 01:13:51,889 --> 01:13:55,469 a John Cleese and he stopped and walked backwards and kind 1307 01:13:55,569 --> 01:13:58,029 of just leaned in and went, "Hello, boys." 1308 01:13:58,129 --> 01:14:00,909 Then he came in a little while later and he went, "What's going on?" 1309 01:14:01,009 --> 01:14:04,070 He says, "I've got to sing a duet with this guy in four hours' time, 1310 01:14:04,170 --> 01:14:05,870 "and he won't open his door." 1311 01:14:05,970 --> 01:14:09,150 ♪ I see a little silhouetto of a man... ♪ 1312 01:14:09,250 --> 01:14:11,951 Apparently, he knocked on the door and his security guy just opened 1313 01:14:12,051 --> 01:14:14,431 the door a little bit and said, "Axl's sleeping," 1314 01:14:14,531 --> 01:14:15,711 and he shut the door. 1315 01:14:15,811 --> 01:14:18,151 It's like, you don't shut the door on Elton John. 1316 01:14:18,251 --> 01:14:21,071 And he vented his spleen in our dressing room. 1317 01:14:21,171 --> 01:14:24,072 "I've got to do a duet. He's not opening the door. 1318 01:14:24,172 --> 01:14:25,712 "I'm Elton John!" 1319 01:14:25,812 --> 01:14:28,312 Fucking hell! It was really funny, actually. 1320 01:14:28,412 --> 01:14:29,552 ♪ Let me go 1321 01:14:29,652 --> 01:14:30,672 ♪ Ah 1322 01:14:30,772 --> 01:14:32,513 ♪ No, no, no, no, no, no, no... ♪ 1323 01:14:32,613 --> 01:14:33,553 And I'm thinking, 1324 01:14:33,653 --> 01:14:36,633 it'll be interesting to see how this works out. 1325 01:14:36,733 --> 01:14:38,673 And I just sort of looked round, 1326 01:14:38,773 --> 01:14:40,773 thinking, is he going appear? 1327 01:14:41,493 --> 01:14:44,234 And he suddenly appeared like a whirling dervish 1328 01:14:44,334 --> 01:14:46,334 in a Scottish kilt. 1329 01:14:50,294 --> 01:14:53,515 And he was absolutely fantastic, I thought he was electric. 1330 01:14:53,615 --> 01:14:58,295 ♪ So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye 1331 01:15:00,135 --> 01:15:04,796 ♪ So you think you can love me and leave me to die 1332 01:15:04,896 --> 01:15:08,716 ♪ Oh, baby 1333 01:15:08,816 --> 01:15:11,876 ♪ Can't do this to me, baby 1334 01:15:11,976 --> 01:15:16,957 ♪ Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here... ♪ 1335 01:15:17,057 --> 01:15:20,757 If there was anybody in the crowd that wasn't keen on him doing it, 1336 01:15:20,857 --> 01:15:24,098 they didn't seem to show it cos I've never seen a reaction like it. 1337 01:15:26,058 --> 01:15:29,398 But then there was this, like, total kind of polar opposite of when it 1338 01:15:29,498 --> 01:15:31,578 goes down to the end section. 1339 01:15:33,778 --> 01:15:37,159 ♪ Nothing really matters, 1340 01:15:37,259 --> 01:15:40,759 ♪ Anyone can see 1341 01:15:40,859 --> 01:15:44,720 ♪ Nothing really matters... ♪ 1342 01:15:44,820 --> 01:15:48,440 The two of them come together, and my memory serves me right, 1343 01:15:48,540 --> 01:15:50,560 for a brief second, they held hands. 1344 01:15:50,660 --> 01:15:55,301 ♪ ..to me. ♪ 1345 01:15:56,821 --> 01:15:59,001 'And the two of them went down the front and held hands 1346 01:15:59,101 --> 01:16:00,241 'at the end of the song. 1347 01:16:00,341 --> 01:16:01,401 'That wasn't rehearsed. 1348 01:16:01,501 --> 01:16:04,281 'There's a lot you see in that concert which was not rehearsed. 1349 01:16:04,381 --> 01:16:07,242 'It wasn't rehearsed because Axl wasn't at rehearsals.' 1350 01:16:07,342 --> 01:16:08,882 And it's momentous. 1351 01:16:08,982 --> 01:16:15,343 ♪ Any way the wind blows... ♪ 1352 01:16:17,263 --> 01:16:20,063 CROWD CHEERS 1353 01:16:32,104 --> 01:16:36,565 It's very hard to quantify what impact the concert had. 1354 01:16:36,665 --> 01:16:39,005 ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome 1355 01:16:39,105 --> 01:16:41,285 the remarkable Elizabeth Taylor? 1356 01:16:41,385 --> 01:16:43,805 But what I can say with utmost 1357 01:16:43,905 --> 01:16:46,846 certainty is it did open up a public 1358 01:16:46,946 --> 01:16:49,326 conversation and together with 1359 01:16:49,426 --> 01:16:54,126 the actions of HIV and Aids, organisations began to shift 1360 01:16:54,226 --> 01:16:56,006 public attitudes. 1361 01:16:56,106 --> 01:17:01,667 We are here to celebrate the life of Freddie Mercury. 1362 01:17:03,227 --> 01:17:04,847 It was tricky for us. 1363 01:17:04,947 --> 01:17:07,448 On one level, we're saying, 1364 01:17:07,548 --> 01:17:10,488 this is celebrating his life, this is the strong statement. 1365 01:17:10,588 --> 01:17:13,008 And on the other hand, we're thinking, ouch, you know, 1366 01:17:13,108 --> 01:17:18,369 this actually does hurt us. And it was bound to do. 1367 01:17:18,469 --> 01:17:21,289 ♪ Day dum 1368 01:17:21,389 --> 01:17:23,389 ♪ Day de day de day dum. ♪ 1369 01:17:24,469 --> 01:17:29,330 We are here also to tell the whole world 1370 01:17:29,430 --> 01:17:36,770 that he, like others we have lost to Aids, died before his time. 1371 01:17:36,870 --> 01:17:40,451 Freddie's tribute, to me, was like a tribute to Richard as well, 1372 01:17:40,551 --> 01:17:43,651 and the thousands that had died before him. 1373 01:17:43,751 --> 01:17:46,451 ♪ Ay dum. ♪ 1374 01:17:46,551 --> 01:17:48,932 He's one of the people that I thought about for a long, long 1375 01:17:49,032 --> 01:17:53,692 time because he kind of represented a cohort of patients that died. 1376 01:17:53,792 --> 01:17:58,773 Some when I was with them alone late at night in a high dependency ward 1377 01:17:58,873 --> 01:18:02,493 trying my best, but it didn't work. 1378 01:18:02,593 --> 01:18:06,893 Each day around the world, 1379 01:18:06,993 --> 01:18:11,694 5,000 people are infected with HIV, 1380 01:18:11,794 --> 01:18:14,234 the virus that causes Aids. 1381 01:18:15,394 --> 01:18:19,735 Tonight, we're here to send them a message that we care. 1382 01:18:19,835 --> 01:18:23,155 It wasn't that long after that effective treatment arrived. 1383 01:18:24,235 --> 01:18:28,095 I would think, Oh, Freddie and this gang of guys, mostly guys, 1384 01:18:28,195 --> 01:18:31,816 would be still alive today if they had these treatments. 1385 01:18:31,916 --> 01:18:34,896 But they didn't - they were just a few years too early. 1386 01:18:34,996 --> 01:18:39,216 But I'm also here with a message for each 1387 01:18:39,316 --> 01:18:44,377 and every one of you - protect yourselves, love yourselves, 1388 01:18:44,477 --> 01:18:46,257 respect yourselves, 1389 01:18:46,357 --> 01:18:50,978 because I will keep on telling you until you do and I won't give in. 1390 01:18:51,078 --> 01:18:56,898 And I won't give up because the world needs you to live. 1391 01:18:56,998 --> 01:19:00,159 HUGE CHEER 1392 01:19:05,399 --> 01:19:09,779 It happened with Anselmo across a lobby. 1393 01:19:09,879 --> 01:19:13,860 So I met him in that lobby 1394 01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:15,420 and I didn't understand why 1395 01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:16,500 the click happened. 1396 01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:18,460 This is a man in a Brazilian hotel. 1397 01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:20,701 I'm never going to see him again. 1398 01:19:20,801 --> 01:19:22,861 Why did that happen? 1399 01:19:22,961 --> 01:19:25,981 This was the first love of my entire life. 1400 01:19:26,081 --> 01:19:30,181 This was the first person I ever shared my life with. 1401 01:19:30,281 --> 01:19:33,342 It was love at first sight. 1402 01:19:33,442 --> 01:19:37,182 He was a fashion designer, very talented man. 1403 01:19:37,282 --> 01:19:41,823 At the time, I was married and we hid Anselmo 1404 01:19:41,923 --> 01:19:44,063 as my wife's cousin. 1405 01:19:44,163 --> 01:19:46,743 And he was everything to George. 1406 01:19:46,843 --> 01:19:50,783 I was 27 and I'd just started my first proper relationship, 1407 01:19:50,883 --> 01:19:53,344 which is pretty old, isn't it, really? 1408 01:19:53,444 --> 01:19:58,364 I went out for dinner with George, and he was very quiet on me. 1409 01:19:59,484 --> 01:20:01,484 He goes, "Anselmo's got Aids." 1410 01:20:04,725 --> 01:20:05,865 Thank you very much. 1411 01:20:05,965 --> 01:20:08,225 There's something I'd like to say. 1412 01:20:08,325 --> 01:20:10,685 I think many of us have something to say today. 1413 01:20:12,886 --> 01:20:15,726 I couldn't believe he had found someone to love. 1414 01:20:17,406 --> 01:20:20,086 And now he was going to lose that person. 1415 01:20:21,846 --> 01:20:23,987 It was heartbreaking. 1416 01:20:24,087 --> 01:20:28,987 The conservative estimate for the year 2000 1417 01:20:29,087 --> 01:20:34,488 is 40 million people on this planet will be infected with HIV? 1418 01:20:35,968 --> 01:20:39,988 And if you think, or any of you out there, really think 1419 01:20:40,088 --> 01:20:43,949 that those are all going to be gay people or drug addicts, 1420 01:20:44,049 --> 01:20:46,889 then you're pretty much lining up to be one of those numbers. 1421 01:20:48,129 --> 01:20:50,289 CROWD CHEERS 1422 01:20:53,210 --> 01:20:56,870 So, please, for God's sake, and for Freddie's sake, 1423 01:20:56,970 --> 01:20:59,870 and for your own sakes, please be careful. 1424 01:20:59,970 --> 01:21:01,390 All right? 1425 01:21:01,490 --> 01:21:03,150 Thank you very much. 1426 01:21:03,250 --> 01:21:06,231 This song is one of my favourites. 1427 01:21:06,331 --> 01:21:08,351 It's called Somebody To Love. 1428 01:21:08,451 --> 01:21:10,771 MUSIC: Somebody To Love by Queen 1429 01:21:15,292 --> 01:21:18,472 ♪ Each morning I get up I die a little 1430 01:21:18,572 --> 01:21:20,872 ♪ Can barely stand on my feet 1431 01:21:20,972 --> 01:21:22,192 ♪ Take a look at yourself 1432 01:21:22,292 --> 01:21:24,953 ♪ Take a look in the mirror and cry 1433 01:21:25,053 --> 01:21:26,073 ♪ And cry 1434 01:21:26,173 --> 01:21:28,353 ♪ Lord, what you're doing to me 1435 01:21:28,453 --> 01:21:31,513 ♪ I have spent all my years in believing you 1436 01:21:31,613 --> 01:21:35,234 ♪ But I just can't get no relief, Lord! 1437 01:21:35,334 --> 01:21:36,554 ♪ Somebody Somebody 1438 01:21:36,654 --> 01:21:38,434 ♪ Ooh, somebody Somebody 1439 01:21:38,534 --> 01:21:42,434 ♪ Can anybody find me 1440 01:21:42,534 --> 01:21:44,755 ♪ Somebody to love...? ♪ 1441 01:21:44,855 --> 01:21:49,035 "Please God. I cry and cry. Send me someone." 1442 01:21:49,135 --> 01:21:51,695 And he did, but he was dying. 1443 01:21:54,335 --> 01:21:56,336 I want to hear every single person. 1444 01:21:57,496 --> 01:21:59,836 See every single pair of hands. 1445 01:21:59,936 --> 01:22:01,476 Three, four! 1446 01:22:01,576 --> 01:22:07,877 ♪ Find me somebody to love Find me somebody to love 1447 01:22:07,977 --> 01:22:10,037 ♪ Find me somebody to love... ♪ 1448 01:22:10,137 --> 01:22:12,677 The sound of his voice is coming out in the monitors all around me, 1449 01:22:12,777 --> 01:22:15,958 and there were moments on that night when we had that crystal clear 1450 01:22:16,058 --> 01:22:18,038 razor edge just like Freddie. 1451 01:22:18,138 --> 01:22:21,318 And it was a real chills-up-the-spine moment 1452 01:22:21,418 --> 01:22:22,598 for all of us. 1453 01:22:22,698 --> 01:22:29,799 ♪ Can anybody find me... ♪ 1454 01:22:29,899 --> 01:22:31,559 When he sings the chorus... 1455 01:22:31,659 --> 01:22:34,679 ♪ ..somebody to... ♪ 1456 01:22:34,779 --> 01:22:37,280 ..and he puts the mic out to the audience. 1457 01:22:37,380 --> 01:22:38,480 Come on! 1458 01:22:38,580 --> 01:22:39,760 Ah! 1459 01:22:39,860 --> 01:22:43,280 AUDIENCE: Love! 1460 01:22:43,380 --> 01:22:44,520 He spun around... 1461 01:22:44,620 --> 01:22:46,621 Yeah! 1462 01:22:48,421 --> 01:22:50,281 ..cos he knew he had the audience. 1463 01:22:50,381 --> 01:22:52,941 ♪ Somebody to love... ♪ 1464 01:22:54,621 --> 01:22:58,882 I spoke to Anselmo after the performance and I said to him, 1465 01:22:58,982 --> 01:23:01,502 "You know that song was for you." 1466 01:23:02,542 --> 01:23:06,722 And he was like, "No, no." I said, "Anselmo, that was yours." 1467 01:23:06,822 --> 01:23:10,043 ♪ Find me, fine me, find me... ♪ 1468 01:23:10,143 --> 01:23:15,883 And 11 months later, literally to the day - we knew it was coming, 1469 01:23:15,983 --> 01:23:19,064 of course we knew - he died. 1470 01:23:20,184 --> 01:23:22,804 ♪ Anybody, anywhere, anybody find me 1471 01:23:22,904 --> 01:23:24,804 ♪ Somebody to love 1472 01:23:24,904 --> 01:23:26,684 ♪ Yeah, yeah 1473 01:23:26,784 --> 01:23:33,145 ♪ Love! ♪ 1474 01:23:36,265 --> 01:23:37,846 BIG ROCK CRESCENDO 1475 01:23:37,946 --> 01:23:39,566 CROWD ROARS 1476 01:23:39,666 --> 01:23:42,186 Thank you very much. Goodnight. Take care. 1477 01:23:54,387 --> 01:23:59,608 I think there is - I know there is - one person in the world 1478 01:23:59,708 --> 01:24:05,128 that Freddie would be very proud to have stand in his footsteps tonight. 1479 01:24:05,228 --> 01:24:08,128 Ladies and gentlemen, Liza! 1480 01:24:08,228 --> 01:24:10,229 CROWD CHEERS 1481 01:24:15,029 --> 01:24:16,769 She was very emotional about it. 1482 01:24:16,869 --> 01:24:18,289 She loved Freddie. 1483 01:24:18,389 --> 01:24:21,290 MUSIC: We Are The Champions by Queen 1484 01:24:21,390 --> 01:24:24,630 ♪ I've paid my dues 1485 01:24:25,790 --> 01:24:28,070 ♪ Time after time 1486 01:24:29,631 --> 01:24:32,191 ♪ I've done my sentence 1487 01:24:33,711 --> 01:24:36,631 ♪ But committed no crime 1488 01:24:37,991 --> 01:24:40,752 ♪ And bad mistakes 1489 01:24:42,272 --> 01:24:44,592 ♪ I've made a few 1490 01:24:46,152 --> 01:24:48,132 ♪ I've had my share of sand 1491 01:24:48,232 --> 01:24:49,733 ♪ Kicked in my face 1492 01:24:49,833 --> 01:24:52,893 ♪ But I've come through 1493 01:24:52,993 --> 01:24:57,293 ♪ And we mean to go on and on and on and on 1494 01:24:57,393 --> 01:25:03,194 ♪ We are the champions, my friends 1495 01:25:05,354 --> 01:25:10,815 ♪ And we'll keep on fighting till the end... ♪ 1496 01:25:10,915 --> 01:25:14,035 I thought it was just a wonderful day. 1497 01:25:15,315 --> 01:25:19,135 The warmth was sort of infinite. 1498 01:25:19,235 --> 01:25:22,056 I remember feeling totally exhausted at the end. 1499 01:25:22,156 --> 01:25:25,536 ♪ ..No time for losers 1500 01:25:25,636 --> 01:25:31,057 ♪ Cos we are the champions 1501 01:25:31,157 --> 01:25:34,497 ♪ Of the world... ♪ 1502 01:25:34,597 --> 01:25:38,237 Freddie opened up his heart and gave it everything he had. 1503 01:25:39,877 --> 01:25:42,898 He lived for his music, he loved his music. 1504 01:25:42,998 --> 01:25:47,018 And he was proud of himself as a musician above everything else. 1505 01:25:47,118 --> 01:25:54,419 ♪ We are the champions We are the champions 1506 01:25:54,519 --> 01:25:57,939 ♪ No time for losers... ♪ 1507 01:25:58,039 --> 01:26:01,699 'We are light years in terms of treatment from where 1508 01:26:01,799 --> 01:26:04,060 'we were because we have the medication' 1509 01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:06,540 so I know I'm not going to die tomorrow. 1510 01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:11,540 But I still meet people who get diagnosed, and it's devastating. 1511 01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:13,261 I would say to them, 1512 01:26:13,361 --> 01:26:16,981 "Know that there is a world where you will be loved 1513 01:26:17,081 --> 01:26:20,001 "and you'll be taken care of without any judgment." 1514 01:26:21,561 --> 01:26:25,542 The antidote to shame is light, isn't it? Empathy. 1515 01:26:25,642 --> 01:26:29,062 So if the secret stops being a secret and everybody can see it, 1516 01:26:29,162 --> 01:26:33,543 and we get some love and acceptance, that is powerful. 1517 01:26:33,643 --> 01:26:34,983 That is powerful. 1518 01:26:35,083 --> 01:26:37,983 ♪ Cos we are the champions... ♪ 1519 01:26:38,083 --> 01:26:40,943 I wish Freddie could have seen that outpouring 1520 01:26:41,043 --> 01:26:43,184 of love and acceptance. 1521 01:26:43,284 --> 01:26:44,784 Thanks, Freddie! 1522 01:26:44,884 --> 01:26:48,104 We just wanted to let you know we were thinking about you. 1523 01:26:48,204 --> 01:26:49,984 Stay safe! 1524 01:26:50,084 --> 01:26:54,405 ♪ ..of the world! ♪ 1525 01:27:36,129 --> 01:27:37,349 MUSIC: A Winter's Tale by Queen 1526 01:27:37,449 --> 01:27:39,449 Yeah, look at that intro. 1527 01:27:40,929 --> 01:27:45,930 ♪ Red skies are gleaming, oh... ♪ 1528 01:27:47,090 --> 01:27:50,950 When he was in Montreux, he sat on the balcony and the view 1529 01:27:51,050 --> 01:27:54,310 is amazing overlooking the lake and the mountains 1530 01:27:54,410 --> 01:27:56,111 and the chimney tops. 1531 01:27:56,211 --> 01:27:57,951 ♪ Smoking chimney-tops... ♪ 1532 01:27:58,051 --> 01:27:59,191 ♪ Chimney tops. ♪ 1533 01:27:59,291 --> 01:28:00,351 ♪ Am I dreaming? ♪ 1534 01:28:00,451 --> 01:28:02,451 ♪ Am I dreaming? ♪ 1535 01:28:03,331 --> 01:28:04,551 ♪ Am I dreaming? ♪ 1536 01:28:04,651 --> 01:28:06,592 SHE HUMS ALONG 1537 01:28:06,692 --> 01:28:10,752 That would have been the last song that Freddie would have written 1538 01:28:10,852 --> 01:28:12,032 before he died. 1539 01:28:12,132 --> 01:28:14,292 ♪ The nights draw in... ♪ 1540 01:28:16,053 --> 01:28:20,313 ♪ There's a silky moon up in the sky... ♪ 1541 01:28:20,413 --> 01:28:21,873 Yeah! ♪ Yeah... ♪ 1542 01:28:21,973 --> 01:28:26,074 Although his body was failing him, his voice was so strong. 1543 01:28:26,174 --> 01:28:28,734 ♪ Am I dreaming? ♪ 1544 01:28:30,494 --> 01:28:33,074 ♪ Am I dreaming? 1545 01:28:33,174 --> 01:28:35,154 ♪ Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa 1546 01:28:35,254 --> 01:28:37,475 ♪ Dreaming... ♪ 1547 01:28:37,575 --> 01:28:41,515 It must have been hard when you know that you're going to die. 1548 01:28:41,615 --> 01:28:44,195 How do you cope with that? 1549 01:28:44,295 --> 01:28:47,476 By writing a lovely song, maybe. 1550 01:28:47,576 --> 01:28:53,156 And it's lovely that he's left this legacy for us all. 1551 01:28:53,256 --> 01:28:54,916 ♪ Dreaming 1552 01:28:55,016 --> 01:28:57,117 ♪ A breathtaking scene 1553 01:28:57,217 --> 01:29:01,357 ♪ With the dreams of the world 1554 01:29:01,457 --> 01:29:08,618 ♪ In the palm of your hand. ♪ 126986

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