@TheCelt: Sorry lad but it's true. AIDS. started to become an epidemic in the 80s. The MEDIA didn't start covering it til late 80s early 90s and then it was the "gay" disease.

Not that I give two sh!ts abt Queen or Freddie Mercury, there is some internet back and forth abt the AIDS thing......this article seems to represent the general consensus though...


"" Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the most
famous rock songs of all time. It stayed a
number one on the British chart for 9 weeks
when originally released and returned to
number one after Freddy Mercury's death in
1991 and event nearly unheard of.
The song, composed in three separate parts
without a conventional chorus, is about
someone facing death "Beelzebub has a devil
put aside for me." The narrator eventually
accepts his fate, reporting; "Nothing really
matters to me." But Freddy Mercury, the
author and lead singer, is vague about why
the man is facing death. Could it be Mercury
reporting his struggle with AIDS? There are
some tempting lines in the dialog. First he
says:
"Just killed a man. Put my gun against his
head. Pulled my trigger now he's dead."
Possibly a metaphor for intercourse between
men resulting in an HIV infection.
Later he says:
"Sent Shivers down my spine. Bodies aching
all the time."
Life with chronic illness?
And finally:
"So you think you can love me and leave me
to die."
The lyrics do seem to suggest that the theme
may be AIDs. There's just one catch.
So what's the Answer?:
Bohemian Rhapsody can only be about
Freddy Mercury's experience with AIDS if
Freddy was incredibly psychic. Bohemian
Rhapsody was released in 1975, six years
before HIV was first described in the medical
literature in 1981. It is possible, though
extremely unlikely that Mercury could have
contracted HIV by that time but he probably
would not have been symptomatic and would
not have know that he had a fatal condition
if he was.
There has been some suggestion that the
song is based on "The Stanger" by Albert
Camus. There are numerous parallels there
are well. But what did Freddy have to say on
the subject? He was reported to say that the
lyrics were "random rhyming nonsense.""
Link.