(Paul Natkin/WireImage)ĭan Hall is a producer on Freddie Mercury: The Final Act – and he was also a young gay man who was in the process of coming to terms with his own sexuality when the singer died in 1991. And then you hear Margaret Thatcher saying children are being taught they have an inalienable right to be gay as if that is a bad thing, and you realise it’s very much a product of its time.” Freddie Mercury of Queen on 9/19/80 in Chicago, Il. “There were headlines like, ‘I’d shoot my son if he had AIDS,’ and ones where they’d catch you unawares and you’d read it and think: ‘How did this manage to make it into print?’ I just can’t get my head around it. “But I find it unconscionable – one wonders how somebody writes into print some of the things that were said about Freddie after he died, and what the conversation is with oneself – what that journalist is saying to themselves as they write this stuff. “I’m essentially a human rights filmmaker, so I’m quite used to observing human rights abuses and I’ve documented many over the years,” James tells PinkNews. He was shocked to discover just how vicious the tabloids were in their assessment of the Queen frontman in the days and weeks after his death. James Rogan, director of Freddie Mercury: The Final Act, was just a child when Mercury died. Director of new Freddie Mercury documentary was horrified by salacious, cruel headlines about the singer Through interviews with Freddie’s bandmates, his sister, his friends, and with others who lived through the AIDS epidemic, Freddie Mercury: The Final Act gives a view of what it was like to live through a moment in time when being gay or bisexual turned you into a social pariah. The film tracks the final months of the singer’s life and culminates with the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, which was held on 20 April 1992 in Wembley Stadium. He said, ‘Oh they’re wonderful’.That fraught time is explored in the new BBC 2 documentary Freddie Mercury: The Final Act. I brought a chair to the door, sat him in it, and flicked on the spotlights, which lit each picture. I kept in front to make sure he didn’t fall. But he made his own way, holding on to the banister. ‘How am I going to get downstairs?’ he asked. The couple’s last conversation, Hutton says, took place a few days before Mercury died. It was an excruciating time, with friends like Joe Fanelli, Mercury’s cook, and Peter Freestone, his assistant, taking turns nursing the ailing singer.
The pair kept on for the next few years, until Mercury’s diagnosis with AIDS in 1987.
He would massage my feet and ask about my day,” Hutton said. In their downtime, Hutton said the Queen star was quiet and reserved, a world away from his showman persona. “Afterwards Elton came and said, ‘Bastard, you’ve stolen it.’” You could feel the effect his stage presence had on the crowd,” he said of the show, which he watched backstage. Over the course of their relationship, Hutton witnessed historic moments, like Queen’s soaring Live Aid performance in 1985.
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