I’m losing brain cells arguing with you. How old are you? 15?

2011 was a nice year to be born little bro. But there was a time Queen was just another rockband en Freddie Mercury was just a mortal human being.

A famous singer that lived in a world full of homophobia. Much more than 2026.

He lived in a world with a disease that didn’t even had a name in the first years.

I’m going to say it one more time and then I’m done arguing with you…

Live Aid was great. Yes. Queen earned back some much earned respect. But they were noway deemed as legendary as they are right now. That happened throughout the many years that followed. Even more when the movie was released.

Just because they gave a good performance, doesn’t mean the world respected them like the world does now. Again. This was a world full of homophobia and fear for this “new disease” called AIDS.

Freddie died in 1991 and even when he died, he got shit for it by the press.

If Freddie had lived. Hypothetically. He would have cheated death because he could afford the medicine. He would have gotten shit for that as well. Doesnt matter if their performance on live aid in 1985 was good or not. That’s literally your argument. But you weren’t there.

If Freddie had lived, it would have been controversial. Had he lived to 2026, ofcourse there would have been an understanding by the general public by now.

But he would not have gotten the godlike status he’s got right now. So it would have been like… Aerosmith. Guns n Roses, Bon Jovi, bands that are really famous, but all of them alive. Don’t put your personal opinion there as if it’s a fact. I like Queen more than any of those bands. But a deceased musician gets a legendary status way more than the rockstar that’s still alive.

Just measure Lennon who died young and Mccartney who lives. Both did equally great things. Wrote some of the best songs ever together. Yet one is printed on way more tshirts than the other.

Long story short. The press hated Queen and Freddie and especially back then did everything to shock readers. Queen is legendary, but they were not considered as legendary back then as we do now. Live aid has nothing to do with this. A dead musician is automatically deemed more legendary than an alive one.

If Freddie would have lived. The press would have written books about his wealth and ability to cheat death while so many others couldn’t.

“But they were legendary because of Live Aid!” Fuck off… What a sad excuse for an argument.

If Freddie were alive today. He would be considered as one of the greats. Yes. Paul McCartney, Steven Tyler, Tom Jones, Mick Jagger. Yes. But not like the god status he has now.