This thread about Freddie Mercury may well be more entertaining than the new film about him
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the music video for queen’s song ‘I want to break free’ actually got banned from mtv bc all four members were in drag pic.twitter.com/op9IWIxQER
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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at one of his concerts, an audience member called out “you fucking p**f” and freddie responded by turning the spotlight on him and said “say that again darling.” pic.twitter.com/CNR9Zn3oKH
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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He was a keen stamp collector! 7 year old me can relate! ((wow and now he’s on his own stamps catch me crying)) pic.twitter.com/fe1ylXJ115
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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In 1985 he began a long – term relationship with jim hutton and they were honestly the cutest couple of all time pic.twitter.com/yhesSqellB
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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his outfits were always on point and iconic ((but that could be a WHOLE other thread)) pic.twitter.com/zI78dOWzt9
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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although he was lively onstage he was a very quiet and private person in real life and rarely gave interviews, but when he did, they were iconic bc he was highkey a diva (credit to officialqueenromania for the compilation) pic.twitter.com/agOrnq6qWA
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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his 39th birthday party was legendary, he asked all the guests to dress in drag (even his straight white male friends) they all did, but when they got there freddie wasn’t in drag, now that’s a power move marty pic.twitter.com/yf7nUEQrA2
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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it was a massive party and was even filmed for his solo hit ‘living on my own’ pic.twitter.com/GHWVMPLBVm
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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queen’s live aid performance has gone down as one of the best of all time, the band thrive and freddie’s persona is what takes it to that extra level ((if you haven’t watched it pls do))https://t.co/BzSnBf5rAd pic.twitter.com/6gpjm4MbNQ
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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freddie was devastatingly diagnosed with HIV and eventually AIDS, however did not reveal it to the public until the day before he died pic.twitter.com/WkOipI5z0Y
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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although he hadn’t revealed his illness, speculation about his health were everywhere and photographers, mostly from the sun newspaper, would wait outside his house to get a picture of him in his condition as he was dying, which is disgusting. pic.twitter.com/FUrOhzY47z
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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(I didn’t really want to post those articles, but i think it’s important to realise this issue as it’s still happening, in that the media and now social media, really has the ability to ruin people’s lives)
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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despite being ill, freddie continued to record music up until his last few months, he told the band “write me more. write me stuff. I want to just sing this and do it and when I am gone you can finish it off” according to band mate brian may pic.twitter.com/gW8gX2TlTX
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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brian was concerned freddie wouldn’t be able to record the song ‘the show must go on’ as freddie couldn’t even walk, but freddie drank some vodka, said “I’ll fucking do it darling” and sang the vocals in one take pic.twitter.com/KyVZJKIBDr
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he recorded the music video for ‘these are the days of our lives’ whilst very ill, but still delivers a great, but emotional performance and put all the effort he could into it – if you don’t cry when watching the making of the video get out of my mentions pic.twitter.com/XmJkpR2CsE
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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one of his last wishes was that bohemian rhapsody be reissued to raise money for AIDS charities, and when it was it topped the charts for a second time and was number 1 for 5 weeks pic.twitter.com/K0DYWx1GiP
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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the freddie mercury tribute concert was announced after his death to raise money for the mercury phoenix trusthttps://t.co/8tKlS9jWmJ pic.twitter.com/YFs45S7SrU
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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the mercury phoenix trust was also set up in freddie’s name to help provide financial assistance to AIDS charities all around the world pic.twitter.com/nmLzs8pbKU
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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he died a legend and will forever be remembered as the icon he was <3 pic.twitter.com/wyTArXqW3L
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
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thank you for reading this long ass thread, I hope y’all know freddie a lil more now if you didnt already, he will forever be such an inspiration to me and so many others, if you wanna message me about anything or freddie pls feel free !! pic.twitter.com/Oe6qv9vdc9
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
There was a PS.
((just a reminder that some of these are from memory so if anything is wrong I’m sorry, also a couple stories there are different opinions on what happened, like the llama one, but I chose the best options))
— alice (@wintersxass) October 11, 2018
*he actually composed crazy little thing called love with a guitar in the bath i told y’all my memory is fried
— alice (@wintersxass) October 12, 2018
this picture is incorrect!! I did not read the dates on properly my bad I also did not make it, just chose it for the ribbon etc. he actually died on the 24th and announced on the 23rd – also this “offical timeline image” needs to get it’s dates right lol pic.twitter.com/QD5OdwyN0k
— alice (@wintersxass) October 13, 2018