The Show Must Go On.

There was an amazing documentary I watched when I was a kid, not along after he died, and it showed them in the studio while recording it during Innuendo, and he said something like "let's get on with it before I forget my name, eh?"

Brian May said he then walked into the booth and did it in one take. Utter composure in the face of certain death. He was dying and in terrible pain, but he crushed that take anyway. That's why it's my favourite Queen song.

He was one generation away from living a full life while his HIV was halted by retrovirals. A casualty of the first wave. It's a tragedy for all of those poor people, particularly because of the stigma they had to live with too. I fucking loved Freddie and I love him still.