Freddie Mercury'south concluding words to his fans: Watch the emotional video

FREDDIE MERCURY spoke for the last time in public over a year before his shocking death. Nobody knew information technology at the time, but somehow the Queen star's heartfelt words are perfect. Watch the full video here.

Freddie Mercury receives BRIT Award with Queen in 1990

There had been rumours circulating that one of the biggest rock stars in the world was sick and perchance dying. Merely Freddie'southward appearance on phase at the BRITS shocked viewers and seemed to ostend the worst. The Queen frontman looked dapper in his powder-blue suit with perfectly coiffed pilus simply he was undeniably gaunt and clearly a shadow of his usually extrovert and colourful self. The way he behaved and spoke (or didn't speak) are even more heartbreaking to watch at present, knowing that information technology was the beginning of the finish.

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Queen were recognised with The Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the1990 Brit Awards, held at theDominion Theatre inLondon, on February eighteen, 1990.

The chairman of the BPI Terry Ellis introduced them: "They are four men, all higher graduates, who this year, celebrate 20 years working together… They've never really been fully recognised for the outstanding achievements of their impressive career. Just tonight we're going to put that to rights…"

A video montage showed clips of the band before focussing on each member individually, culminating with Freddie equally boyfriend music legends paid their ain tributes to him with cracking wit and warmth.

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Freddie Mercury last words at the BRIT Awards

Freddie Mercury last words at the BRIT Awards (Prototype: GETTY)

Freddie Mercury with Queen at the 1990 BRIT Awards

Freddie Mercury with Queen at the 1990 BRIT Awards (Epitome: GETTY)

Phil Collins said: "Freddie is a one-off. You lot don't go as well many like him."

Elton John joked: "If y'all ask Freddie how much a pint of milk is, forget information technology. He'd be able to tell you lot the price of nail lacquer."

And so a clip was shown of Freddie himself saying, " If I had to do it all once again. Yes, why non? I'd practice it slightly differently…"

At the cease, when Paul McCartney says "King Mercury," Freddie adds; "Long may she reign."

Freddie Mercury in August 1990

Freddie Mercury in August 1990 (Image: GETTY)

When the group took to the stage, Freddie was clearly a inverse human.

Noticeably much thinner, he was also very conservatively dressed and, most shocking of all, he was particularly subdued.

For twenty years he had dazzled the earth with his exuberant and irrepressible spirits merely now he was quiet and withdrawn, assuasive Brian May to exercise all the talking and standing with his caput down. This really was a shadow of the quondam superstar.

At the very end, he had iii terminal words for the world.

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    May told the crowd; "On behalf of the group I'd similar to say thank you very much to everyone in the industry — and, perhaps more importantly, outside the manufacture — who stuck behind usa all these years, because in doing so you gave u.s.a. a lot of liberty to pursue what we loosely phone call our art to any extent we felt like at the fourth dimension and to go out on a lot of foreign limbs which seemed very precarious at the time, merely we didn't quite fall off. And finally to get to the indicate where this happens to us, which is slap-up."

    Every bit the band walked off the phase, Freddie quietly stepped upward to the microphone and said: "Thank you... goodnight."

    Freddie Mercury important dates form his life

    Freddie Mercury important dates form his life (Image: GETTY )

    Perfectly normal and natural words, echoing his young man bandmates John Deacon and Roger Taylor.

    Except they take on another level of meaning when they become the final words he would say in public before his decease on November 24, 1991.

    They echo the iconic moment from the video for These Are The Days Of Our Lives where Freddie looks direct into the photographic camera and says "I still love you."