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In 1985, there was a concert held at Wembley called Live 45 when he passed away. Mercury’s funeral service was
Aid where the donations went to the people suffering from conducted by a Zoroastrian priest. Before he died, Mercury
hunger at Etiopia. In front of 72,000 live viewers and a TV told Mary Austin where he wanted his ashes to be buried;
audience which was close to 2 billion, Queen performed that secret location has still never been disclosed. Only if he

there in what has since been frequently referred to as had lived longer…
the greatest live performance ever. Mercury’s sustained
“Aaaaaay-o” during a call-and-response segment with the Music world will never forget this legend.
crowd came to be known as “The Note Heard Around the
World.” Most of the donation in this Live Aid concert were Azra Zeynep Aktuğ
collected when Queen was on the scene.
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night run at Wembley Stadium on July 11 and 12, 1986. The 8d94-7736c783ad74.html
screen which was hung above the stage was the largest in
Europe at the time. The record from that worldwide known https://heraldcourier.com/entertainment/music/freddie-mercurys-
live performance went platinum five times over. In 1987, he eclectic-collection-of-clutter-for-sale/article_99eefa5e-d925-51e6-
unfortunately got diagnosed with AIDS but kept it a secret for 85d6-89e8366d8f8b.html
a long time. He only shared his diagnosis with the Queen’s https://www.newsweek.com/freddie-mercury-life-story-you-may-not-
members who were also his closest friends which would be know-1602032/
appropriate thinking about all the time they used to spend

together. While his illness was getting worse, Queen won the https://www.newsweek.com/freddie-mercury-life-story-you-may-not-
BRIT Award in 1990 for “Outstanding Contribution to British know-1602032
Music” . As he grew sicker, Mercury continued to record.
Brian May wrote “Mother Love” for Mercury to sing. By this
point, the singer was using a cane and unable to stand for
extended periods of time. In the track’s final version, May
sang the last verse as Mercury felt unable to do so.

Mercury finally confirmed to people the day before he died
that he was diagnosed with AIDS, on 23th October 1991.
Many fans were bitter about the timing of the announcement,
arguing that sharing the information earlier would have
encouraged people to donate to AIDS research and other
associated support for prevention and a cure. Even though
he officially announced on that day, the public was taking
the hints and guessing that he wasn’t in his best state of

health.

Freddie Mercury unfortunately died of bronchial pneumonia
on November 24th,1991. The pneumonia was caused by
complications from AIDS. The singer-songwriter was just

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