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Freddie Mercury performing with Queen at Wembley Stadium in 1986. (Getty)
It was just 24 hours before his death that Queen frontman Freddie Mercury finally admitted to the world that he had been diagnosed with AIDS.
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Freddie Mercury performing on stage (Photo by Richard E. Aaron/Redferns)
Speculation had abounded about Mercury’s health: he looked frail and thin in a video for These Are the Days of Our Lives, and had stopped touring for several years.
Freddie Mercury, Queen, Live Aid, 13 July 1985 Wembley Stadium, London. (Photo by Solomon N’Jie/Getty Images)
Floral tribute from Elton John at Freddie Mercury’s funeral at West London Crematorium (Photo by Ken Lennox/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
Queen guitarist Brian May told a new BBC documentary, Freddie Mercury: The Final Act, ‘”When he came in he wasn’t in a great state. He was finding it hard to walk, even finding it hard to sit.
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