20 April 1992, Wembley, London, United Kingdom
Don't worry. I'm not gonna sing.
We are here to celebrate the life of Freddie mercury, an extraordinary rock star who rushed across our cultural landscape like a comic shooting up across the sky. We are are here also to tell the whole world that he like others we have lost to AIDS died before his time.
The bright light of his talent still exhilarates us even now, that his life has been so cruelly, extinguished. It needn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened. Please. Let's not it happen again.
Each day around the world, 5,000 people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Just last week, it was reported in the United States alone that there are 9,000 actual cases of AIDS among teenage and young adults with thousands more that probably don't even know they're infected.
I'll get off in a minute. I'll get off. I have something to Say!
There's 70,000 people in this stadium tonight. Look at yourselves, look at how many you are! In just two short weeks there be as many new infections as there are people here tonight.
Please don't let it happen to you. You are the future of our world. You are the best and the brightest. You are the shining light that will illuminate a better world tomorrow.
Protect yourselves. If you have sex, every time you have sex, use a condom. Every single time, straight sex, gay sex, bisexual sex, use a condom, whoever you are. And if you share drugs, don't share a needle.
Tonight we are here to raise money, to help those living with AIDS. Tonight, we're here to send them a message that we care,
But I'm also here with a message for each and every one of you. Protect yourselves. Love yourselves, respect yourselves, because I will keep on telling you until you do. And I won't give in. And I won't give up! Because the world needs you to live!
You see, we really love you. We really care. God bless.