Freddie Mercury & Kenny Everet DjSkiLzZ

Friendship with Freddie MercuryFreddie Mercury and Everett became close friends over the years they knew each other. First meeting in 1974, Everett had invited Freddie on to his breakfast show on Capital FM; the pair hit it off instantly. During the 1970s, their friendship became closer, with Everett becoming advisor and mentor to Mercury – and Mercury as Everett's confidant, helping Everett to accept his sexuality.



Throughout the early-mid 1980s, the pair continued to explore their homosexuality – in addition to drugs – and while the pair were never lovers, they did experience London nightlife regularly together. By 1985, the pair had also fallen out over a disagreement on their using and sharing of drugs. During 1988, Audrey Lee "Lady Lee" Middleton completed her autobiography, with the foreword from Everett. Unusually, shortly after its publication and newspaper serialisation, Everett denounced the book for outing him. The fallout resulted in the pair only speaking via lawyers, with their friends – including Mercury – choosing to support Lee. Everett and Mercury started talking again in 1989, in their failing health. Their closeness was not on the same level as previously, but they were able to reconcile their differences.



Everett was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1989, and he made his condition known to the public in 1993.He died from an AIDS-related illness, in the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, on 4 April 1995, aged 50. A traditional requiem mass was held at Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mayfair, and Everett was later cremated at Mortlake Crematorium.