#FREDDY MERCURY FULL#

'There was absolutely no impression from me that he could've been sick,' producer Dave Richards said in a documentary. Mercury had been aware of his HIV-positive diagnosis since 1987, but those around him didn't necessarily have a clue.

#FREDDY MERCURY FULL#

(He would be 72 today.) The last-minute bombshell felt eerily suited to the Brit’s theatrical, eccentric presence, full of both grand entrances and exits. While it has since become well-known that Mercury had HIV/AIDS, the virtuoso singer and musician only publicly revealed his diagnosis the day before his death on November 24, 1991, at the tragically young age of 45. For the casual moviegoer or Queen fan, a prominent question is likely: How did Freddie Mercury die? It also, to many viewers, seems to conveniently rush through his undeniably queer sexuality, which was central to the illness that killed him. Yet the film has come under fire, and not only for the over-the-top jumbo prosthetic teeth that star Rami Malek wears to embody Mercury.

The musical biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, an Oscar frontrunner that’s made an astonishing near $1 billion at the worldwide box office, shines a light on some aspects of the Queen frontman’s day-to-day existence, while still maintaining his gauzy, larger-than-life aura. In life and in death, Freddie Mercury often remained an intriguingly inscrutable mystery.

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