{"id":30102,"date":"2024-08-09T15:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-9-1986-queen-plays-what-would-be-their-final-show-with-frontman-freddie-mercury\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T15:02:31","slug":"on-this-day-aug-9-1986-queen-plays-what-would-be-their-final-show-with-frontman-freddie-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-9-1986-queen-plays-what-would-be-their-final-show-with-frontman-freddie-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 9, 1986: Queen plays what would be their final show with frontman Freddie Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-06\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_2.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Aug. 9, 1986 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Queen<\/strong> headlined the final show of their Magic tour in Knebworth Park, England, which would turn out to be their last live show ever with frontman <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concert had been added to the schedule after Queen sold out two\u00a0nights at Wembley Stadium in London the previous month. Added demand warranted a third show but they were unable to book the same venue. The Knebworth\u00a0concert wound up selling out, with 120,000 fans coming to see the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following the tour, Mercury went on to work on solo projects, and the band came back together to release 1989\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Miracle<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, but did not tour in support of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After the\u00a0Magic tour, rumors about Mercury\u2019s health began to circulate in the tabloids. He had been diagnosed HIV positive in 1987, although he did not reveal his diagnosis until 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He died Nov. 24, 1991, one day after publicly announcing his condition. He was 45.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Aug. 9, 1986 &#8230; Queen headlined the final show of their Magic tour in Knebworth Park, England, which would turn out to be their last live show ever with frontman Freddie Mercury. The concert had been added to the schedule after Queen sold out two\u00a0nights at Wembley<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-9-1986-queen-plays-what-would-be-their-final-show-with-frontman-freddie-mercury\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}