Mercury Survives: A Freddie Mercury lives collaborative TL

This is inspired by the Kurt Cobain survives TL floating around here. As it so happens Cobain mentioned Mercury in his suicide note. Anyway, I hope there are many more fans of Queen and Freddie Mercury willing to contribute to this and take it to the present. Just one rule: your contribution can't contradict the previous one (not too much anyway ;)).

October 1986: the British press reports that Mercury had his blood tested for HIV/AIDS at a Harley Street clinic. A reporter for The Sun, Hugh Whittow, questions Mercury about the story at Heathrow Airport as he returns from a trip to Japan. Mercury angrily denies he has sexually transmitted disease stating. "Do I look like I'm dying of AIDS," he fumed.

April 1987: being worried about the possibility that he might be HIV positive after all, after being a bit ill, Freddie Mercury has a blood test done. The test is negative for AIDS, but does uncover a lingering infection that is treated with antibiotics.

May 1987: after the incredible success of the Magic Tour in Europe, culminating in their concert at Knebworth Park in Stevenage, England, the band decides to continue the Magic Tour with a leg in South America and a leg in Japan to continue promotion of their latest album 'A Kind of Magic'.

June 1987: In South America, Queen performs one night in Caracas, three nights in Buenos Aires and one night in Mar del Plata. The South American leg ends in Brazil with two concerts in Sao Paolo and three concerts in the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro attended by a record breaking quarter of a million people.

July 1987: Queen performs in Tokyo at the Nippon Budokan indoor arena six nights in a row for a grand total of 90.000 enthusiastic fans. After the last concert Freddie remarked "I need a vacation."
 
August 1987 Queen goes on vacation from touring though out the month.
September 1987 Queen starts working on a new album.
 
Observation: Your POD should have been at least a decade earlier, to change Freddie's bad habits which lead to HIV......
 
Indeed... I tried, some months ago, something similar with thread dealing with Queen (well, it never went beyond the first post, I felt not good enough at tring that topic), and I placed it one year earlier and thought that some pre-1985 changes needed to be done.

Anyway, just in case.


September 15th, 1987 Paul Prenter dies in a car crash.
 
Paul Prenter was introduced to Freddie in late 1977, so he started to became more involved in gay scene from 1978 onwards...having in mind Freddie became full blown AIDS in 1987, it is likely he might have contracted the virus in 1981-82. So, as we all know as was stated several times, Prenter introduced him to a new world that Freddie never would have been able to come in, in full scale on his own...and the all band hated him for the negative influence he became to Freddie, even in recording sessions, specially during Hot Space recordings in Munich 1981-82.

So, just in case...we could say

November 10th, 1978 The same day "Jazz" have been released, Paul Prenter was stabbed in a confuse episode in a night club. He died due injuries seven days later.
 
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June 6 , 1988 - Breakthru EP was released. Their first EP in 11 years, containing five songs: Breakthru, Too Much Love Will Kill You, I Want it All, I Guess We're Falling out and Scandal, were the new fresh material, forthcoming of a new album to be released "soon".

July 9, 1988 - Queen is invited to Saturday Night Live, again, after the 1982 appearance: They played "I Want it All" and "Another One Bites the Dust". The audience praised them, Freddie have quit smoking early that year, and his voice became clearer than previous years, as you can hear as well into the new EP
 
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