Freddie Mercury : The Final Act

I haven't see the documentary yet but I remember the vitriol and political inaction from all political parties here in Germany and in the UK too. The thing that made me incredibly angry though the was the cheap end of the British press and their thoughtless intrusion and out and out desperation to get a story on an intensely private matter. Had a member of their family been dying of cancer say, they would have been outraged at the constant and devious methods used to get the merest detail to titillate their readers. So called journalists from The Sun traced the chauffeur who had driven me, Peter and Leslie from the airport to Garden Lodge and back the last time we visited in the week before his death and offered him hundreds of pounds if he recounted what our conversation had been about in the car. Sadly for him we'd been speaking German so he was none the wiser but the owner of the company was so disgusted at the newspaper he contacted us to assure us of the discretion of their driver.

Before the documentary was broadcast I read a couple of articles online from British papers about it and about events at the time and they were all full of inaccuracies, some glaringly obvious, from facts that actually were made public but clearly they were too lazy to check.

Strange how the whole world sprang into action with the Covid pandemic but with the AIDS pandemic most governments around the world issued a few booklets and then just sat back and watched the misery unfold.