Freddie Mercury with life-long friend Mary Austin in 1986. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images).Picture:Getty Most fans of Queen will already know that Freddie Mercury never had children. Freddie tragically lost his battle with AIDS on 24th November 1991, having kept his sexuality secret from hi...
The outsized hedonism of this song began to bother Brian May as Freddie Mercury battled the AIDS virus that killed him in 1991. "I thought it was a lot of fun, but I did have an undercurrent feeling of, 'Aren't we talking about danger here?'" May said. "We were worried about Fred...
In the final months before succumbing to AIDS in November 1991, Freddie Mercury worked diligently on the music that became 'Made in Heaven.' In the Queen documentary 'Champions of the World,' guitarist Brian May recalled the resolute spirit within the band, realizing they were "totally on bor...
Mercury had announced that he was leaving the road – ostensibly to break the tour-album-tour cycle that had long consumed the band. Only later did we learn the real reason, as
I think just being ill for so long, he had a little bit of a personality change and he was much more isolated, and he kinda wasn’t that interested in working on Steely Dan records anymore," Fagen told 'Rolling Stone.' "It also might have to do with the specter of doing an album...
I think just being ill for so long, he had a little bit of a personality change and he was much more isolated, and he kinda wasn’t that interested in working on Steely Dan records anymore," Fagen told 'Rolling Stone.' "It also might have to do with the specter of doing an album...
long consumed the band. Only later did we learn the real reason, as rumors of his AIDS diagnosis seemed to be confirmed by his shockingly frail appearance in the accompanying video, his last. Mercury remained a force, even in that weakened state, somehow buoying himself to a final willful ...
The Freddie Mercury and Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" was already entering the Oscars with several controversies, including the firing of director Bryan Singer after he was accused of sexual assault and the film's perceived lack of attention to Mercury's sexuality and the larger AIDS crisis. ...
Queentook the camp up a notch with 1984’s“I Want to Break Free,”which put the entire band (including a still-closeted Freddie Mercury) in drag a full 25 years before “RuPaul’s Drag Race” made it mainstream-fashionable. While most LGBTQ ’80s acts were playing it safe musically an...
I love thatGrace Slickco-wrote "It's About Time," one of the songs on the latest Jefferson Starship release. How did she end up back in the mix for that? Well, she’s always in the mix spiritually and peripherally. She’s been good friends with David and Donny for a long time. ...