It's still so strange for someone to NOT know this, even though V hadn't known who Queen was at all so there'd be no reason for him to.
"AIDS doesn't have a cure - it barely had a treatment then - now, I guess," Wren said. Hell, even in Wren's time they're only finally starting to make strides with it and have it not be an instant 'you've got ten years maybe' death sentence. "It's also really heavily stigmatized. Fans suspected he was sick and he told his inner circle but otherwise he just said he was overworked and pointed out he'd been doing Queen nonstop for like twenty years. There's this one song -"
Wren was talking while looking through the catalog of available music, what the store had, did some math and let out a sigh.
"... That's not going to be recorded for two more years... it's called The Show Must Go On. Brian May wrote it and said later he told Mercury he was worried he wouldn't be able to do it that's how sick he was. But apparently Mercury said 'I'll fucking do it, Darling' and knocked it out in one take. ... He died the next year."
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"AIDS doesn't have a cure - it barely had a treatment then - now, I guess," Wren said. Hell, even in Wren's time they're only finally starting to make strides with it and have it not be an instant 'you've got ten years maybe' death sentence. "It's also really heavily stigmatized. Fans suspected he was sick and he told his inner circle but otherwise he just said he was overworked and pointed out he'd been doing Queen nonstop for like twenty years. There's this one song -"
Wren was talking while looking through the catalog of available music, what the store had, did some math and let out a sigh.
"... That's not going to be recorded for two more years... it's called The Show Must Go On. Brian May wrote it and said later he told Mercury he was worried he wouldn't be able to do it that's how sick he was. But apparently Mercury said 'I'll fucking do it, Darling' and knocked it out in one take. ... He died the next year."