{"id":23165,"date":"2024-01-24T06:58:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T01:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/sweet-queen-song-roger-taylor-wrote-after-he-found-out-freddie-mercury-was-dying-music-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T06:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T01:28:33","slug":"sweet-queen-song-roger-taylor-wrote-after-he-found-out-freddie-mercury-was-dying-music-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/sweet-queen-song-roger-taylor-wrote-after-he-found-out-freddie-mercury-was-dying-music-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Queen song Roger Taylor wrote after he found out Freddie Mercury was dying | Music | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Back in the late 1980s, Freddie Mercury was diagnosed HIV positive and it soon became apparent to the star, who would tragically lose his battle with AIDS at just 45, that he couldn\u2019t tour anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by his bandmates Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, Queen spent the next few years recording new material in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>One highlight of this period was Roger\u2019s These Are the Days of Our Lives, which featured on the band\u2019s 1991 album Innuendo and is the subject of this week\u2019s Queen The Greatest Live.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking previously with Absolute Radio about the track reflective of Queen\u2019s 30 year career, the drummer said: \u201cI was sitting at home in a rather reflective mood and I did know that Freddie was ill, and I think it came out of that slightly melancholic mood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess I was trying to put an optimistic slant on it in a way \u2013 those were the days then. And these are the days of our lives \u2013 today is more important than yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Famously These Are The Days Of Our Lives\u2019 1991 music video featured Freddie\u2019s final appearance in front of a camera before his death that November.<\/p>\n<p>Director Rudi Dolezal told People: \u201cHe must have had terrible pain, but you don\u2019t see that, you just see a man and his destiny. He didn\u2019t want any special treatment. He was so brave.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Back in the late 1980s, Freddie Mercury was diagnosed HIV positive and it soon became apparent to the star, who would tragically lose his battle with AIDS at just 45, that he couldn\u2019t tour anymore. Supported by his bandmates Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, Queen spent the next few years recording new &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}