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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 21:57:53 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   Watching "Freddie Mercury – The Final Act", which is ostensibly about Freddie's last years, but about as much about the AIDS epidemic in general.
   
   They play some comments by leading politicians and public figures that are so callous, so vicious or so cavalier that it almost makes me cry.
   
   imdb.com/title/tt16277412/
   Freddie Mercury - The Final Act (TV Special 2021) - IMDb
   
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 22:45:44 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Their accounts of when they wrote and recorded Innuendo, the album and the videos, is heartbreaking.
     
     He had said earlier on that he wanted to sing until the end, and so he did. He was so worn down and in so much pain that he could barely sit up properly, much less stand up, but he pushed himself and did it anyway to get those things recorded.
     
     Once it was all complete, or some time after, he withdrew to his home, stopped taking his medicines and lived out his last two weeks with his partner and his closest non-Queen friends.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 23:03:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     The footage from rehearsals for the tribute concert is just amazing.
     
     They're in a simple area with particle board walls but 3/4 of Queen is playing, George Michael is singing and David Bowie is just hanging around and having a cig. He just finished rehearsing with Annie Lennox. Elton John is probably around the corner, just outside view of the camera.
     
     And they're all determined to do their absolute best to do the memory of their friend justice. They're some of the most accomplished musicians in the world and some of them are nervous and wondering if they'll measure up.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 23:09:08 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Backstage interviewer/announcer: Cindy Crawford.
     
     It's all of the 80s shoved together into one single day in the early 90s.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 23:15:34 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     "It was such a perfect moment [with Elton John and Axl Rose]. It was spontaneous and you know it wasn't rehearsed, because Axl didn't show up for rehearsals!"
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 23:30:51 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Ruben
     @trregeagle Zero surprise: Thatcher is one of the terrible people.
   • Ruben (trregeagle@social.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 23:30:54 UTC Ruben

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     @clacke It was a terrible time.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 30-Dec-2021 23:44:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Wow, what a ride this film was. I'm glad I stumbled across it. It really affected me. Heartbreaking and heartwarming.
     
     I've been a fan of Queen's and Freddie's for decades and I still learned something from this one.