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Freddie Mercury was defeated by HIV, one day after he officially announced he has this sickness.

According to the book "Mercuri and Me"(out in 1994), the star was diagnosed with HIV in the spring of 1987. In the same year, Mercury declared that his test was negative.Even if he said he wasn`t sick,the British press kept alive the roomers on the years to come,because of Mercury`s psychical status,and also because of the lack of tours held by Queen.

Mercury was followed by photographers and journalists that kept saying that he was sick until the end of his life.Even him showing up in his last video "These Are the Days of Our Lives",kept their suspicions alive.

Mercury kept recoding songs in the studio.He stopped one month before he died in November 1991.

In his last year of life,Queen was on the tip of the iceberg,the album "Innuendo" getting in the British tops on the first place and selling 250000 copies in the first week after it was released.

Freddie Mercury was incinerated and the place of his ashes is not known.

In the spring of 1992, the members left alive from Queen founded "The Mercury Phoenix Trust" and organized "The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert " for preventing HIV.

In Montreux,Switzerland was made a statue as a tribute to Mercury in 2003,a place where the fans in the whole world gather every year to show their appreciation for his job.There was also made a imperial stamp in his honor.The stamp is part of the Millennium Stamp series.