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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jonesy and Amanda Today. In nineteen ninety one,

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Speaker 1: when Freddie Mercury passed away, he was only forty five. Gee,

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Speaker 1: as we get older, these are like Michael Hutchins, just

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Speaker 1: that the younger, younger younger. So he was forty five.

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Speaker 1: He died at his home in Kensington, the cause of

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Speaker 1: death being bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS. It was just

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours after Freddy had released a statement to

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Speaker 1: The Guardian confirming to the public for the first time

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Speaker 1: he had tested positive for that disease. He'd kept his

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Speaker 1: health concerns a secret despite constantly being under the magnifying glass,

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Speaker 1: especially when rumors circulated that he'd been tested for HIV

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Speaker 1: AIDS in nineteen eighty six. The news of his deteriorating

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Speaker 1: health led Queen to abruptly end the nineteen eighty seven

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Speaker 1: Magic Tour, one of the band's largest tours, seen by

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Speaker 1: over a million people. In a conversation with the Telegraph

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Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, guitarist Brian May said, by November we

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Speaker 1: all knew there wasn't much time left. Freddie wanted his

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Speaker 1: life to be as normal as possible. He obviously was

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Speaker 1: in a lot of pain and discomfort. For him, the

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Speaker 1: studio was an oasis place where life was just the

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Speaker 1: same as it has always been. He loved making music,

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Speaker 1: he lived for it, so the group kept recording with

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Speaker 1: Freddy right up to his final days. Oh Freddy, Freddy,

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Speaker 1: Freddie Peace. We can't stop you now, fred Jonesy and

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Speaker 1: Amanda's Jamnation