Queen 's Live Aid performance in July 1985 may have clocked in at just 17 minutes, but they were 17 minutes which would both make rock history and transform the band for good. Though they'd enjoyed continued success with their platinum-selling 11th album The Works in 1984, as the mid-80s beckoned, frontman Freddie Mercury found himself Freddie Mercury death: Jim Hutton was there (Image: PH ) READ MORE. Freddie Mercury had affair with Star Wars icon while he was with Mary; Hutton wrote: "Freddie woke up again at six in the Freddie Mercury and Jim Hutton at Live Aid (Image: GETTY) "Freddie taught me love is a quality, not a quantity. You don’t use all your love once and then it's gone. In life and in death, Freddie Mercury often remained an intriguingly inscrutable mystery. for her former paramour.) Mercury also kept up a romance with Jim Hutton, his hairdresser, from 1985 Freddie Mercury made music right up until he died (Image: Getty Images,BBC/Rogan Productions/Getty Images). It is not known when exactly Mercury contracted AIDS, but he and Jim lived as a married QUEEN'S FREDDIE MERCURY was photographed smiling in his garden by his partner Jim Hutton just weeks before his death. The beautiful images, which remained Jim's favourites for the rest of his life How Paul Prenter betrayed Freddie Mercury . Mercury's lover, Jim Hutton, said the singer felt it was the ultimate betrayal. In his book, Mercury and Me, he said: "On May 4, Freddie was devastated Freddie Mercury, the maverick frontman of Queen, died from AIDS-related complications in 1991 at the age of 45. However, the details surrounding his ailment are still a mystery. The rock legend, born as Farrokh Bulsara in 1946 to Parsi parents, rarely granted interviews to reporters and was known to be an intensely private individual. Ina. recent auction called Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own, Sotheby's sold a lot featuring 265 never-before-seen photographs depicting Mercury’s private world. The images, mostly polaroids from the 80s, had not been seen since the Queen frontman’s passing in 1991. Upon his death, the singer left his London home and all his possessions This is evident in the way Freddie stayed so close not just to Mary Austin, but to ex-boyfriend Joe Fanelli, who also lived at One Garden Lodge, with Freddie and new partner Jim Hutton. SCROLL 71gdW.