IronBlackZepp is right. Freddie Mercury died of AIDS the year before this song was released, and was the first (or one of the first) big stars to die of the disease, and really spread awareness of how devastating the disease is.
I'm actually having to read a book about something similar for school, "Still Life With Buddy" by Leslie Newman. Read it if you get the chance; it's an excellent book. I cried reading it.
Now we have antiretrovirals and stuff like that, but in 1992, there was nothing they could dofor you if you were HIV-positive. It was horrible.
IronBlackZepp is right. Freddie Mercury died of AIDS the year before this song was released, and was the first (or one of the first) big stars to die of the disease, and really spread awareness of how devastating the disease is. I'm actually having to read a book about something similar for school, "Still Life With Buddy" by Leslie Newman. Read it if you get the chance; it's an excellent book. I cried reading it. Now we have antiretrovirals and stuff like that, but in 1992, there was nothing they could dofor you if you were HIV-positive. It was horrible.