25 years to the day of the death of musics greatest ever frontman

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25 years ago the world was waking up to the tragic news that Freddie Mercury had lost his battle against AIDS. I was 11 at the time and can remember my mum and dad pretty much in tears over it. I went with my mum to the newsagents and everyone was talking about it and everyone seemed upset. Only got into queens music after his death, but every time I watched him he seemed to have an aura about him that no one else had. Just a force of nature when performing. He seemed so quiet off stage, then he got on stage and transformed into a different person.

Taken from us far too soon. I will have a couple of glasses tonight and stick live at Wembley 86 on I think. Very much missed, even 25 years on.

 
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Legend.
 
I can relate to that GMan. An old friend of mine Tony, grew up in the east end and was pals with Freddie's driver Terry. Terry was hired by Jim Beach in the early 80's to drive Freddie in his Rolls Royce.

Paul loved him. He mentioned his 3 kids names once and Freddie never forgot them, always asking how they were every time he saw Terry. Every Christmas without fail, about two weeks before Christmas, Freddie used to come out to the car of a morning and give him a Christmas card and about £800 in cash and told him that was for him and his family to have a lovely Xmas. £800 was a damned lot of money in the 80's.

Once as well when Paul mentioned his own car had broken down and needed a lot of work done on it, Freddie got out of the car, went back indoors and came out with £2000 and told him to get himself a new one. Unbelievably generous man.

I met Terry once in about 2001, a year before he moved down to Dorset. I tried to talk about Freddie. But he didn't seem to want to, you could see he was getting upset just thinking about it, so I left the subject alone. Tony told me after that there were rumours around their circle of friends that Freddie had actually left him quite a bit of money in his will as he shared his money around all his friends and employees. Maybe his lovely retired life in Dorset is down to Freddie, who knows.

Edit: got the name wrong, it was Terry, not Paul. Don't know where I got Paul from.
 
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Can't believe that 25 years have passed. Both of us shed many a tear on that sad day but tonight we'll reminisce and play some Queen.

In the meantime...





Still as good now as when they were released!
 
Absolute legend! Awesome frontman and one of the best voices ever to grace rock.

And to think, some so-called 'stars' today cancel gigs/entire tours because they have a slight cough or a bad throat. Freddie carried on whilst dying from AIDS and in severe pain.
 
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I remember the day well , couldn't really believe it had happened,spent most of the day in a state of shock.
i didnt even realise he was gay till after he died..

Total legend and will never be forgotten.
 
Was a very sad day. Not only did we lose one of the greatest frontmen ever, we also lost IMO one of the best drummers in Eric Carr.
 
I first saw Queen supporting Mott The Hoople around 1972 and even then he was an awesome frontman. I saw Queen quite a few times in the 70s and I can honestly say he was the best front man I've ever seen and I've seen quite a few.
I don't really remember the day he died but I remember the day he told us he was dying.
My mate had nipped down to town at dinnertime to buy the new Innuendo album which had come out that day. He stood on the assembly line with tears rolling down his cheeks and I asked 'what's up?', he said 'Freddy's dying, this is his swan song'. I put the album on and by the time it had finished I was crying. Obviously Show Must Go On was the giveaway.
We will never see another like him.
 
People are often recognised for their greatness after the death. I think we missed out on the greatest that was to come from him as a result of his. As you've all stated here though he was a brilliant man both as an artist and as a human. That to me symbolises just how great the loss of him was considering as I've said, I don't think we saw everything he had to give.
 
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I first saw Queen supporting Mott The Hoople around 1972 and even then he was an awesome frontman. I saw Queen quite a few times in the 70s and I can honestly say he was the best front man I've ever seen and I've seen quite a few.
I don't really remember the day he died but I remember the day he told us he was dying.
My mate had nipped down to town at dinnertime to buy the new Innuendo album which had come out that day. He stood on the assembly line with tears rolling down his cheeks and I asked 'what's up?', he said 'Freddy's dying, this is his swan song'. I put the album on and by the time it had finished I was crying. Obviously Show Must Go On was the giveaway.
We will never see another like him.
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The end of that song gets me every time. It screams of someone who realises how good they were but that their time is up.

My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly, my friends
 
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Absolute genuine legend. I'm amazed it's been 25 years! That Wembley concert is certainly one that I wish I'd been to.
 
It's funny how time seems to warp what actually happened back then. Grunge was coming in and music like Queen was seen as irrelevant - I remember all reviews of Innuendo as pretty bad. Then Freddie dies and they realise what they've missed and then they become the band they should have been, but it's all too late.

I do miss him and he's certainly in the same stature as Lennon and Presley.
 
was a big queen fan early on loved and know most songs off by heart.

freddie was great as time goes by though people like brian may i despize.

freddie was up there with the greats.
 
I was born in 86 and the first Queen I remember hearing was Innuendo when it appeared in my parents collection. Freddie dying was the first time I really had death explained to me.
 
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