THE DEATH IN PARIS: RUDOLF NUREYEV: THE DEATH IN PARIS: RUDOLF NUREYEV / SON MORT EN PARIS: RUDOLF NOUREEV

'Most famous World Ballet Celebrities Mr. R. Nureyev and Mrs. M. Fonteyn appeared in a Charity Gala at the London Coliseum on the 6th of October 1977. Mr. F. Mercury came to say ‘Hello’ to them and Rudolf gave him the ‘New York Times’ with a sensational article about his success in the movie ‘Valentino’ (published on the 6th of October 1977). Nobody understood them because their conversation was in Farsi-language. On the 7th of October 1977 - Mr. Mercury performed his songs with the Royal Ballet dancers at the Coliseum in St. Martin’s Lane. Mr. Nureyev visited him in privacy after and invited him to his personal island at Li Galli in Italy. Freddie said: ‘Rudy, be pleased and welcome my Four New York Daughters: Thor Arnold, Lee Nolan, and Joe Scardilli, and John Murphy… All of them died with AIDS’