Sir Elton John: 'By all rights I ought to have died of Aids like Freddie'

The singer-songwriter same he was 'living a awfully self-involved, habit-forming life' and will have simply succumbed to the illness just like the legendary Queen frontman and Hollywood actor Rock Hudson.

But Sir Elton, 68, same his life was circled by the case people teenage Ryan White World Health Organization was expelled from faculty when catching the illness from a intromission and died aged eighteen in 1990.

The Candle within the Wind singer told Winq magazine: ''By all rights I should not be here. I ought to be dead, six feet below in an exceedingly picket box. I ought to have contracted  HIV within the Nineteen Eighties and died within the

Nineties, rather like Freddie Mercury. Or like Rock Hudson.

''I was living a awfully self-involved, habit-forming life at that point, and also the White family's humanity hit ME sort of a thunderbolt."

''It really reminded me that being an honest soul meant extremely caring concerning and fighting for things on the far side yourself.

''Every day since - each project, trip, speech or fundraiser, when I meet somebody living with HIV, visit a clinic or cuddle a baby that has been born HIV-free - reinforces that being a part of one thing a lot of larger than you is what makes like value living.''