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[N] One person we haven't talked about yet is Freddie Mercury.
The idea of you two partying together seems like
the best night of all time.
I mean, I couldn't imagine
I never got to meet him.
I'd have loved to.
Everyone in this room, everyone around the world loves him.
Can you describe your friendship?
I don't think I'd ever met anybody like Freddie,
who was larger than life, so funny, so gifted,
so talented in what he wanted to do.
I mean, his videos, his, you know, his ballet dancing.
He had such an incredible mind,
and was one of the funniest people I'd ever met,
and was so wonderful to spend time with.
Hanging out with him was a pleasure.
There was no attitude, it was just a laugh.
When we did Live Aid, I had this big area built backstage,
which everybody could come and have a drink with all the artists on the show.
And I went on before Queen, and Queen came,
and I wore this ridiculous kind of hat.
And Freddie came back, and they completely trounced it.
I went, well, I said, no one need go on now, Freddie.
You just completely and utterly swept the board,
and you were absolutely brilliant.
He said, yes, darling, we were.
And what were you wearing?
You looked like the f***ing Queen Mother.
Um
And I did.
But you told me once a very moving story about
When he was ill and when he died.
Oh, God.
I have a house in London which wasn't too far from the house
where he spent the last few weeks of his life, or years of his life.
And I didn't go and see him often,
because I found it really, really painful,
because AIDS was terrifying.
And he was physically terrifying to look at.
But he was
Freddie loved collecting Japanese art and collecting at auctions.
So while he was dying, he was still buying things at auctions.
He would be surrounded on the bed,
and there'd be medicine all around him.
Medicine, cabinets, pills, auction catalogues.
And it was astonishing.
I thought, this is amazing.
This man has such a love of life
that he's not thinking about dying whatsoever.
He's still thinking about living.
And he showed no fear to me about dying,
and no fear or sadness.
He went round there, and you held an audience with Freddie.
And I collect a painter called Henry Scott Duke.
A Christmas morning, Tony King again, who's a link in my life,
came and gave me this pillowcase.
And his drag name
My drag name is Sharon, as you read in the book.
And he was Rod Stewart's Phyllis.
And we've all got drag names.
David Doyle never had one.
He was always Mrs Bowie, and Mick was always Mrs Jagger.
But Freddie was Melina, as in Melina McCurry, the Greek actress.
And in this beautiful pillowcase
was this watercolour of Henry Scott Duke.
And in the note that went with it, it said,
Dear Sharon, I saw this at auction and thought you'd love it.
I love you, Melina.
And you can imagine how much I cried.
It was really moving.
And he was dying, and he still thought of his friend.
And he bought me this.
And I still have it on its easel.
And I still have the pillowcase next to my bed.
That's the kind of person he was.
He was so full of love and life.
I don't think I've ever met anyone quite like that.
And it was the story of someone else who contracted AIDS,
Ryan White, that actually made you want to get sober.
I was in a doctor's office in New York.
And I picked up a copy of Newsweek.
And I read about this horrific story
when AIDS was just beginning.
And people were very ignorant and thought you could catch it
off a toilet seat or by touching someone.
And Ryan White's family lived in Indiana.
And he contacted HIV and AIDS through a blood transfusion.
And people found out about it
and started shooting bullets through his windows
and putting firebombs through his letterbox.
And I was outraged.
And I got my publicist or someone to get hold of the family.
And I helped them move to another town in Indiana.
And became friends with the Ryan White family.
He was inspirational.
This young kid who had a death sentence around him.
I never heard complain.
I never heard bitch about having HIV and AIDS.
His family were extraordinary.
And we went to Disneyland together.
We did obvious things.
He came to my shows.
We became friends.
And I continued to support the family.
And in the last week of his life,
I flew to Indianapolis along with a lot of other people
who were friends with the family
who went there to support the family.
And what I did in the Indianapolis hospital,
I was like Jeannie's secretary.
I answered the phone.
I did jobs worth jobs for her to take her mind off it.
Because she was spending the last few days
with her dying son.
And I would go back home to my hotel.
Or go back to the hotel in Indianapolis.
This family are the most wonderful family I've ever seen.
They were so Christian.
They forgave everybody who'd been horrible to them.
I used to complain about the wallpaper in the hotel.
Didn't like the fact that I was a Christian.
Didn't like the fabric on the chairs.
And I thought it really
I went home and I used to cry.
I think, what have you become?
What have you become?
Look at the way they live their life.
Look at the way you live your life.
I was so ashamed.
And if you look at me in the funeral,
I had white hair.
It was the time of sleeping with the past.
I looked like a real old man.
And I was doing a lot of drugs.
Six months later, I was sober and clean.
He was a huge catalyst
for teaching me
how far I'd lost my way.
How far my standards had dropped.
That whole family.
They were the template for me to getting sober.
And so, six months later,
I got sober.
And I decided when I got sober
that I would do something
for AIDS and HIV.
And I set up the Elton John AIDS Foundation
from my kitchen table in Atlanta.
And never in a million years
could I have imagined how far this would come.
But I was determined that I wanted to put back something.
I wasn't there on the ACT UP marches.
I wasn't there with Larry Kramer.
And I should have been.
And I felt really guilty about it.
I thought, right, I'm being given another chance
to live my life.
This is what I'm going to do.
I'm going to make sure that I'm going to raise
a lot of money and not waste it
and give it to people who need to have
the support that they never had from me.
And that's what I did.
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[N] One person we haven't talked about yet is Freddie Mercury.
The idea of you two partying together seems like
the best night of all time.
I mean, I couldn't imagine
I never got to meet him.
I'd have loved to.
Everyone in this room, everyone around the world loves him.
Can you describe your friendship?
I don't think I'd ever met anybody like Freddie,
who was larger than life, so funny, so gifted,
so talented in what he wanted to do.
I mean, his videos, his, you know, his ballet dancing.
He had such an incredible mind,
and was one of the funniest people I'd ever met,
and was so wonderful to spend time with.
Hanging out with him was a pleasure.
There was no attitude, it was just a laugh.
When we did Live Aid, I had this big area built backstage,
which everybody could come and have a drink with all the artists on the show.
And I went on before Queen, and Queen came,
and I wore this ridiculous kind of hat.
And Freddie came back, and they completely trounced it.
I went, well, I said, no one need go on now, Freddie.
You just completely and utterly swept the board,
and you were absolutely brilliant.
He said, yes, darling, we were.
And what were you wearing?
You looked like the f***ing Queen Mother.
Um
And I did.
But you told me once a very moving story about
When he was ill and when he died.
Oh, God.
I have a house in London which wasn't too far from the house
where he spent the last few weeks of his life, or years of his life.
And I didn't go and see him often,
because I found it really, really painful,
because AIDS was terrifying.
And he was physically terrifying to look at.
But he was
Freddie loved collecting Japanese art and collecting at auctions.
So while he was dying, he was still buying things at auctions.
He would be surrounded on the bed,
and there'd be medicine all around him.
Medicine, cabinets, pills, auction catalogues.
And it was astonishing.
I thought, this is amazing.
This man has such a love of life
that he's not thinking about dying whatsoever.
He's still thinking about living.
And he showed no fear to me about dying,
and no fear or sadness.
He went round there, and you held an audience with Freddie.
And I collect a painter called Henry Scott Duke.
A Christmas morning, Tony King again, who's a link in my life,
came and gave me this pillowcase.
And his drag name
My drag name is Sharon, as you read in the book.
And he was Rod Stewart's Phyllis.
And we've all got drag names.
David Doyle never had one.
He was always Mrs Bowie, and Mick was always Mrs Jagger.
But Freddie was Melina, as in Melina McCurry, the Greek actress.
And in this beautiful pillowcase
was this watercolour of Henry Scott Duke.
And in the note that went with it, it said,
Dear Sharon, I saw this at auction and thought you'd love it.
I love you, Melina.
And you can imagine how much I cried.
It was really moving.
And he was dying, and he still thought of his friend.
And he bought me this.
And I still have it on its easel.
And I still have the pillowcase next to my bed.
That's the kind of person he was.
He was so full of love and life.
I don't think I've ever met anyone quite like that.
And it was the story of someone else who contracted AIDS,
Ryan White, that actually made you want to get sober.
I was in a doctor's office in New York.
And I picked up a copy of Newsweek.
And I read about this horrific story
when AIDS was just beginning.
And people were very ignorant and thought you could catch it
off a toilet seat or by touching someone.
And Ryan White's family lived in Indiana.
And he contacted HIV and AIDS through a blood transfusion.
And people found out about it
and started shooting bullets through his windows
and putting firebombs through his letterbox.
And I was outraged.
And I got my publicist or someone to get hold of the family.
And I helped them move to another town in Indiana.
And became friends with the Ryan White family.
He was inspirational.
This young kid who had a death sentence around him.
I never heard complain.
I never heard bitch about having HIV and AIDS.
His family were extraordinary.
And we went to Disneyland together.
We did obvious things.
He came to my shows.
We became friends.
And I continued to support the family.
And in the last week of his life,
I flew to Indianapolis along with a lot of other people
who were friends with the family
who went there to support the family.
And what I did in the Indianapolis hospital,
I was like Jeannie's secretary.
I answered the phone.
I did jobs worth jobs for her to take her mind off it.
Because she was spending the last few days
with her dying son.
And I would go back home to my hotel.
Or go back to the hotel in Indianapolis.
This family are the most wonderful family I've ever seen.
They were so Christian.
They forgave everybody who'd been horrible to them.
I used to complain about the wallpaper in the hotel.
Didn't like the fact that I was a Christian.
Didn't like the fabric on the chairs.
And I thought it really
I went home and I used to cry.
I think, what have you become?
What have you become?
Look at the way they live their life.
Look at the way you live your life.
I was so ashamed.
And if you look at me in the funeral,
I had white hair.
It was the time of sleeping with the past.
I looked like a real old man.
And I was doing a lot of drugs.
Six months later, I was sober and clean.
He was a huge catalyst
for teaching me
how far I'd lost my way.
How far my standards had dropped.
That whole family.
They were the template for me to getting sober.
And so, six months later,
I got sober.
And I decided when I got sober
that I would do something
for AIDS and HIV.
And I set up the Elton John AIDS Foundation
from my kitchen table in Atlanta.
And never in a million years
could I have imagined how far this would come.
But I was determined that I wanted to put back something.
I wasn't there on the ACT UP marches.
I wasn't there with Larry Kramer.
And I should have been.
And I felt really guilty about it.
I thought, right, I'm being given another chance
to live my life.
This is what I'm going to do.
I'm going to make sure that I'm going to raise
a lot of money and not waste it
and give it to people who need to have
the support that they never had from me.
And that's what I did.
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_ _ [N] One person we haven't talked about yet is Freddie Mercury.
The idea of you two partying together seems _ like_
the best night of all time.
I mean, I couldn't imagine_
I never got to meet him.
I'd have loved to.
Everyone in this room, everyone around the world loves him.
Can you describe your friendship?
I don't think I'd ever met anybody like Freddie, _
who was larger than life, so funny, so gifted,
so talented in what he wanted to do.
I mean, his videos, his, you know, his ballet dancing.
He had such an incredible mind,
and was one of the funniest people I'd ever met,
and was so wonderful to spend time with.
Hanging out with him was a pleasure.
There was no attitude, it was just a laugh.
When we did Live Aid, I had this big area built backstage,
which everybody could come and have a drink with all the artists on the show.
And I went on before Queen, and Queen came,
and I wore this ridiculous kind of hat.
_ _ And Freddie came back, and they completely trounced it.
I went, well, I said, no one need go on now, Freddie.
You just completely and utterly swept the board,
and you were absolutely brilliant.
He said, yes, darling, we were.
And what were you wearing?
You looked like the f***ing Queen Mother.
_ _ _ Um_ _ _ _
And I did.
_ _ _ But you told me once a very moving story about_
When he was ill and when he died.
Oh, God.
I have a house in London which wasn't too far from the house
where he spent the last few weeks of his life, or years of his life.
_ And I didn't go and see him often,
because I found it really, really painful,
because AIDS was terrifying.
And he was physically terrifying to look at.
_ But he was_
Freddie loved collecting Japanese art and collecting at auctions.
So while he was dying, he was still buying things at auctions.
He would be surrounded on the bed,
and there'd be medicine all around him.
Medicine, cabinets, pills, auction catalogues.
And it was astonishing.
I thought, this is amazing.
This man has such a love of life
that he's not thinking about dying whatsoever.
He's still thinking about living.
And he showed no fear to me about dying,
and no fear _ or sadness.
He went round there, and you _ _ held an audience with Freddie.
And I collect a painter called Henry Scott Duke.
A Christmas morning, _ _ Tony King again, who's a link in my life,
_ _ came and gave me this _ _ _ pillowcase.
_ And _ _ _ his drag name_
My drag name is Sharon, as you read in the book.
And he was Rod Stewart's Phyllis.
And we've all got drag names.
David Doyle never had one.
He was always Mrs Bowie, and Mick was always Mrs Jagger.
But Freddie was Melina, as in Melina McCurry, the Greek actress.
And in this beautiful pillowcase
was this _ _ watercolour of Henry Scott Duke.
And in the note that went with it, it said,
Dear Sharon, I saw this at auction and thought you'd love it.
I love you, Melina.
_ And you can imagine how much I cried. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It was really moving.
_ _ _ And he was dying, and he still thought of his friend.
And he bought me this.
_ And I still have it on its easel.
And I still have the _ pillowcase next to my bed.
_ _ That's the kind of person he was.
He was _ _ so full of love and life.
I don't think I've ever met anyone quite like that.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And it was the story of someone else who contracted AIDS,
Ryan White, that actually made you want to get sober.
I was in a doctor's office in New York.
And I picked up a copy of Newsweek.
And I read about this horrific story
when AIDS was just beginning.
And people were very ignorant and thought you could catch it
off a toilet seat or by touching someone.
And Ryan White's family lived in Indiana. _
And he _ contacted HIV and AIDS through a blood transfusion.
And people found out about it
and started shooting bullets through his windows
and putting firebombs through his letterbox.
And I was outraged.
And I got my publicist or someone to get hold of the family.
_ And I helped them move to another town in Indiana.
And became friends with the Ryan White family.
_ He was inspirational.
This young kid who had a death sentence around him.
I never heard complain.
I never heard bitch about having HIV and AIDS.
His family were extraordinary. _
And we went to Disneyland together.
We did obvious things.
He came to my shows.
We became friends.
And I continued to support the family.
And in the last week of his life,
I flew to Indianapolis along with a lot of other people
who were friends with the family
who went there to support the family.
And what I did in the Indianapolis hospital,
I was like Jeannie's secretary.
I answered the phone.
I did jobs worth jobs for her to take her mind off it.
Because she was spending the last few days
with her dying son.
And I would go back home to my hotel.
Or go back to the hotel in Indianapolis.
_ This family are the most wonderful family I've ever seen.
They were so Christian.
They forgave everybody who'd been horrible to them.
I used to complain about the wallpaper in the hotel.
Didn't like the fact that I was a Christian.
Didn't like the fabric on the chairs.
And I thought it really_
I went home and I used to cry.
I think, what have you become?
What have you become?
_ Look at the way they live their life.
Look at the way you live your life.
I was so ashamed.
And if you look at me in the funeral,
I had white hair.
It was the time of sleeping with the past.
I looked like a real old man.
And I was doing a lot of drugs.
Six months later, I was sober and clean.
He was a huge catalyst
_ _ for teaching me
how far I'd lost my way.
How far my standards had dropped.
That whole family.
They were the template for me to getting sober.
And so, six months later,
I got sober.
And I decided when I got sober
that I would do something
for AIDS and HIV.
And I set up the Elton John AIDS Foundation
from my kitchen table in Atlanta.
_ And never in a million years
could I have imagined how far this would come.
But I was determined that I wanted to put back something.
I wasn't there on the ACT UP marches.
I wasn't there with Larry Kramer.
And I should have been.
And I felt really guilty about it.
I thought, right, I'm being given another chance
to live my life.
This is what I'm going to do.
I'm going to make sure that I'm going to raise
a lot of money and not waste it
and give it to people who need to have
the support that they never had from me.
And that's what I did. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [N] One person we haven't talked about yet is Freddie Mercury.
The idea of you two partying together seems _ like_
the best night of all time.
I mean, I couldn't imagine_
I never got to meet him.
I'd have loved to.
Everyone in this room, everyone around the world loves him.
Can you describe your friendship?
I don't think I'd ever met anybody like Freddie, _
who was larger than life, so funny, so gifted,
so talented in what he wanted to do.
I mean, his videos, his, you know, his ballet dancing.
He had such an incredible mind,
and was one of the funniest people I'd ever met,
and was so wonderful to spend time with.
Hanging out with him was a pleasure.
There was no attitude, it was just a laugh.
When we did Live Aid, I had this big area built backstage,
which everybody could come and have a drink with all the artists on the show.
And I went on before Queen, and Queen came,
and I wore this ridiculous kind of hat.
_ _ And Freddie came back, and they completely trounced it.
I went, well, I said, no one need go on now, Freddie.
You just completely and utterly swept the board,
and you were absolutely brilliant.
He said, yes, darling, we were.
And what were you wearing?
You looked like the f***ing Queen Mother.
_ _ _ Um_ _ _ _
And I did.
_ _ _ But you told me once a very moving story about_
When he was ill and when he died.
Oh, God.
I have a house in London which wasn't too far from the house
where he spent the last few weeks of his life, or years of his life.
_ And I didn't go and see him often,
because I found it really, really painful,
because AIDS was terrifying.
And he was physically terrifying to look at.
_ But he was_
Freddie loved collecting Japanese art and collecting at auctions.
So while he was dying, he was still buying things at auctions.
He would be surrounded on the bed,
and there'd be medicine all around him.
Medicine, cabinets, pills, auction catalogues.
And it was astonishing.
I thought, this is amazing.
This man has such a love of life
that he's not thinking about dying whatsoever.
He's still thinking about living.
And he showed no fear to me about dying,
and no fear _ or sadness.
He went round there, and you _ _ held an audience with Freddie.
And I collect a painter called Henry Scott Duke.
A Christmas morning, _ _ Tony King again, who's a link in my life,
_ _ came and gave me this _ _ _ pillowcase.
_ And _ _ _ his drag name_
My drag name is Sharon, as you read in the book.
And he was Rod Stewart's Phyllis.
And we've all got drag names.
David Doyle never had one.
He was always Mrs Bowie, and Mick was always Mrs Jagger.
But Freddie was Melina, as in Melina McCurry, the Greek actress.
And in this beautiful pillowcase
was this _ _ watercolour of Henry Scott Duke.
And in the note that went with it, it said,
Dear Sharon, I saw this at auction and thought you'd love it.
I love you, Melina.
_ And you can imagine how much I cried. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It was really moving.
_ _ _ And he was dying, and he still thought of his friend.
And he bought me this.
_ And I still have it on its easel.
And I still have the _ pillowcase next to my bed.
_ _ That's the kind of person he was.
He was _ _ so full of love and life.
I don't think I've ever met anyone quite like that.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And it was the story of someone else who contracted AIDS,
Ryan White, that actually made you want to get sober.
I was in a doctor's office in New York.
And I picked up a copy of Newsweek.
And I read about this horrific story
when AIDS was just beginning.
And people were very ignorant and thought you could catch it
off a toilet seat or by touching someone.
And Ryan White's family lived in Indiana. _
And he _ contacted HIV and AIDS through a blood transfusion.
And people found out about it
and started shooting bullets through his windows
and putting firebombs through his letterbox.
And I was outraged.
And I got my publicist or someone to get hold of the family.
_ And I helped them move to another town in Indiana.
And became friends with the Ryan White family.
_ He was inspirational.
This young kid who had a death sentence around him.
I never heard complain.
I never heard bitch about having HIV and AIDS.
His family were extraordinary. _
And we went to Disneyland together.
We did obvious things.
He came to my shows.
We became friends.
And I continued to support the family.
And in the last week of his life,
I flew to Indianapolis along with a lot of other people
who were friends with the family
who went there to support the family.
And what I did in the Indianapolis hospital,
I was like Jeannie's secretary.
I answered the phone.
I did jobs worth jobs for her to take her mind off it.
Because she was spending the last few days
with her dying son.
And I would go back home to my hotel.
Or go back to the hotel in Indianapolis.
_ This family are the most wonderful family I've ever seen.
They were so Christian.
They forgave everybody who'd been horrible to them.
I used to complain about the wallpaper in the hotel.
Didn't like the fact that I was a Christian.
Didn't like the fabric on the chairs.
And I thought it really_
I went home and I used to cry.
I think, what have you become?
What have you become?
_ Look at the way they live their life.
Look at the way you live your life.
I was so ashamed.
And if you look at me in the funeral,
I had white hair.
It was the time of sleeping with the past.
I looked like a real old man.
And I was doing a lot of drugs.
Six months later, I was sober and clean.
He was a huge catalyst
_ _ for teaching me
how far I'd lost my way.
How far my standards had dropped.
That whole family.
They were the template for me to getting sober.
And so, six months later,
I got sober.
And I decided when I got sober
that I would do something
for AIDS and HIV.
And I set up the Elton John AIDS Foundation
from my kitchen table in Atlanta.
_ And never in a million years
could I have imagined how far this would come.
But I was determined that I wanted to put back something.
I wasn't there on the ACT UP marches.
I wasn't there with Larry Kramer.
And I should have been.
And I felt really guilty about it.
I thought, right, I'm being given another chance
to live my life.
This is what I'm going to do.
I'm going to make sure that I'm going to raise
a lot of money and not waste it
and give it to people who need to have
the support that they never had from me.
And that's what I did. _ _ _ _
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