“There was a lot of joy, strangely enough, because Freddie was in a lot of pain, and he was being pursued by the press and stuff outside, so his life was pretty hard,” he said. “But inside the studio, there was a sort of blanket around us, and he could be happy and enjoy what he liked doing best.
“We had a lot of laughs, and a huge amount of fun because it was a safe place for him.
“Sometimes it would only last a couple of hours a day, because he would get very tired. But during that couple of hours, boy, would he give a lot,” May recalled.
“When he couldn’t stand up, he used to prop himself up against a desk, at the mic here, down a vodka and do a blinding vocal.”
