'I can't do this any more': Queen's Brian May recalls Freddie Mercury's words ...

'I can't do this any more': Queen's Brian May recalls Freddie Mercury's words ...
'I can't do this any more': Queen's Brian May recalls Freddie Mercury's words ...

Queen singer Freddie Mercury shocked his bandmates in 1986 when he told them after their famous Knebworth gig that he did not want to perform live any longer due to his ailing health, a new documentary reveals.

Guitarist Brian May says in the upcoming Freddie Mercury: The Final Act, which airs on Saturday, how his friend told him and fellow bandmates Roger Taylor and John Deacon that he wanted to stop live performances.

At the time of the gig, which was performed in front of a sell-out 200,000-strong crowd at Knebworth Park, in Hertfordshire, May and Taylor were unaware that Mercury was suffering from AIDS, which there was no treatment for at the time.

'We had done the biggest tour ever of our lives and it was a great success and we were very happy. And Freddie said, "I can't do this anymore, after this." And we went, "oh",' May says. 

Taylor adds: 'He was fairly firm at that point about the fact that he didn't want to

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