Freddie Mercury and Elton John had a very close friendship and the Rocketman singer was one of a few who saw the late star in his final days battling AIDS.

In his autobiography Me, Sir Elton described the devastation of seeing his dear friend dying.

He spoke of visiting the Queen singer a lot during this period in 1991 but couldn’t stay much longer than an hour as “it was too upsetting”.

Despite everything Freddie was going through, Sir Elton recalled how the Queen singer still had the…