Queen Innuendo Release Party TV Report 1991

Footage of Queen's Innuendo album release party held in Long Beach, California in 1991.

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"Queen" "Freddie Mercury" "Brian May" "Roger Taylor" "John Deacon" "Keep Yourself Alive" "Queen II" "Seven Seas of Rhye" Sheer Heart Attack" Killer Queen" "Now I'm Here" "A Night at the Opera" "Bohemian Rhapsody" "You're My Best Friend" "A Day At The Races" "Somebody To Love" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" "News Of The World" We Will Rock You" We Are The Champions" "Spread Your Wings" "Jazz" "Bicycle Race" "Don't Stop Me Now" "Fat Bottomed Girls" "Live Killers" "Love Of My Life" "The Game" "Play The Game" "Save Me" "Another One Bites The Dust" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" "Flash Gordon" "Flash" "The Hero" "Hot Space" "Body Language" "Under Pressure" "Las Palabras De Amor" "The Works" "The Complete Works" "Radio Ga Ga" "I Want To Break Free" "It's A Hard Life" "Hammer To Fall" "A Kind Of Magic" "One Vision" "Who Wants To Live Forever" "Friends Will Be Friends" "The Miracle" "Breakthru" "Scandal" "I Want It All" "The Invisible Man" "Innuendo" "I'm Going Slightly Mad" "These Are The Days of our Lives" "The Show Must Go On" "Headlong" "Live at Wembley" "At The Beeb" "Classic Queen" "Made In Heaven" "Heaven for Everyone" "Mother Love" "Too Much Love Will Kill You" "I Was Born To Love You" You Don't Fool Me" A Winter's Tale" "Queen + Paul Rodgers" "Greatest Hits" "Greatest Hits II" "Greatest Hits III" Queen Rocks" "Queen Rock Montreal" "Stone Cold Classics" "Queen on Fire Live at the Bowl" "Return of the Champions" "Larry Lurex" "The Cross" "The Eye" "Ibex" "Wreckage" "We Will Rock You The Musical" "WWRY"

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[etolpygo]

actually when Freddie told the rest of the band he was ill he asked them specifically not to tell anyone. so that's exactly what they did.

[Furkin44]

@tiger5455 I was there...It was a career death sentence to admit that you had AIDS, let alone admit you were gay!! Had he admitted it when he discovered that he contracted it then we wouldn't have much of the brilliance of of last works. He wanted to work...he was dying and that was his choice, he owed it to NO ONE to come out with it! The ONLY thing that upset Brian and Roger was that their friend was dying, in a later interview they said they would have gladly done ANYTHING to protect Freddy!

[scorpyaforever]

Brian say's in one of his recent interviws, that probably Freddie did know in '86 about his illness and what will be happing, and he told John after Knebworth'86, that "this is the last tour, last concert", not exactly those words, but with the same sense....so let's say Brian confirms that Freddie did know on '86, so he was aware about the fact that those were the last concerts with him vocalist! :(

[icantstopchewinggum]

i think innuendo was a good way to end their records. (I know made in heaven, but freddie wasn't with them to make it) Anyways, ya It was just so magical and epic. The music videos were all really good too. They definitly gave it their all.

[eleniloutrakiforever]

WAS MTV SHOWING REAL MUSIC?!?!

[PrettyPleaseWith]

@TheJumpyPopcorn The media had been targetting him regarding HIV for quite some time by then, but the test for sure was in 87, and it was the detection of the lesions that had brought it on. Until then I daresay Freddie had his doubts but hadn't wanted to confirm them. Considering that two men Freddie knew had been reported by the press as dying of AIDS, it would not be too far a leap for the same press to see Freddie as probably suffering too.

[PrettyPleaseWith]

@TheJumpyPopcorn It is rather obvious, yes, that he must have already had the virus at least by 84 if not earlier. But what's in question here is when exactly he KNEW for sure about the virus: and that was definitely in 1987 when he spotted the Sarcoma and got himself tested again. Not judging him on the basis of his lifestyle either, but you have to admit that the previous test did leave him aware of the dangers of unprotected sex - there's an interview where he talks of living like a nun.

[TheJumpyPopcorn]

@PrettyPleaseWith I believe he got tested for HIV in 1984 and it came back negative but many believe that he already had the virus back then, but HIV/AIDS can live on someone's body and fool tests for a few years, so it's irrelevant the fact that it came out negative then. He was promiscuous but we know nothing to judge him. I remember seeing a 1986 article talking about his "strange paleness" noticed during the Magic Tour, and the media was already sugesting that he had AIDS in 86, not 87.

[TheJumpyPopcorn]

@PrettyPleaseWith I believe he got tested for HIV in 1984 and it came back negative but many believe that he already had the virus back then, but HIV/AIDS can live on someone's body and fool tests for a few years, so it's irrelevant the fact that it came out negative then. He was promiscuous but we know nothing to judge him. I remember seeing a 1986 article talking about his "strange paleness" noticed during the Magic Tour, and the media was already sugesting that he had AIDS in 86, not 87.

[PrettyPleaseWith]

Brian and Roger did this ad nauseum I think...all throughout their Innuendo promotion - and I think Brian did a HUGE chunk of the diplomatic answers because he was the one promoting Innuendo while These Are the Days of Our Lives was being shot. To this day, both of them don't regret what they'd done: they did it because they cared for Freddie and hating what the press had done to him already. Besides being amazing musicians, Brian, Roger, Deaky and Freddie were amazing people as well :)

[PrettyPleaseWith]

@TheJumpyPopcorn What we need to also consider is that he got himself tested at some point a few years earlier, and the test came back negative. The jolt of realising that he COULD have been in danger was enough for him to cut back on his racy lifestyle, but I guess - as you said - by 1986 he already started suspecting that something was wrong. 1987 was when he took his second test and got it confirmed, by which time it clearly WAS full-blown AIDS.

[lucrativeelfmongrel]

Ha Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols.