Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of QueenHachette Books, 22.3.2011 - 432 sivua Queen's success in the 1970s was accompanied by a taste for musical and non-musical excess. Is This the Real Life? draws on eyewitness testimonies -- former producers and managers, ex-girlfriends and boyfriends -- to create a complete picture of one of the world's most ambitiously driven rock bands at work and at play. Revealing Queen's complex dynamic, Blake also explores how Freddie Mercury's sexuality alienated some of the band's fan base, how they reinvented themselves by morphing from hard rock to pop, and how they saw out their final years as Mercury became one of the most successful rock stars in the world. Is This the Real Life? looks beyond Queen's public persona to shed light on the legendary band's four wildly divergent personalities, particularly lead singer Freddie Mercury's. |
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... asked about his personal life: 'It wasn't as affluent as people think. But I suppose I give the appearance of being affluent. I love that.' At the age of five Freddie began attending the local missionary school, and showed the first ...
... asked about his personal life: 'It wasn't as affluent as people think. But I suppose I give the appearance of being affluent. I love that.' At the age of five Freddie began attending the local missionary school, and showed the first ...
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... asked ifhe was the 'pretty boy that everyone wanted to lay', Mercury replied, 'Funnily enough, yes . . . I was considered the arch poof.' When asked, in the parlance of the mid-seventies, if he was 'bent', Freddie answered, 'Let's put ...
... asked ifhe was the 'pretty boy that everyone wanted to lay', Mercury replied, 'Funnily enough, yes . . . I was considered the arch poof.' When asked, in the parlance of the mid-seventies, if he was 'bent', Freddie answered, 'Let's put ...
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... asked.' There would be no Hectics II in Zanzibar. Instead, Freddie gleaned any scraps of information about pop culture from the English magazines that arrived weeks, sometimes months after publication. For his birthday, he received a ...
... asked.' There would be no Hectics II in Zanzibar. Instead, Freddie gleaned any scraps of information about pop culture from the English magazines that arrived weeks, sometimes months after publication. For his birthday, he received a ...
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... asked him, “Buckwee, how long do you think you are going to live?” And he said, “For some reason, the number forty-five comes into my head.” Then he asked me how long I thought I was going to live, and I said, “Fortyseven.” It wasn't a ...
... asked him, “Buckwee, how long do you think you are going to live?” And he said, “For some reason, the number forty-five comes into my head.” Then he asked me how long I thought I was going to live, and I said, “Fortyseven.” It wasn't a ...
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... asked to play a youth-club gig,' explains Dave Dilloway. 'There was a friend of someone we knew, and he and his girlfriend or wife booked us this gig at St Mary's Hall in Twickenham.' On 28 October 1964, while Farrokh Bulsara was still ...
... asked to play a youth-club gig,' explains Dave Dilloway. 'There was a friend of someone we knew, and he and his girlfriend or wife booked us this gig at St Mary's Hall in Twickenham.' On 28 October 1964, while Farrokh Bulsara was still ...
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CHAPTER THREE A Happy Accident | 55 |
CHAPTER FOUR A Strange Vibrato | 94 |
CHAPTER FIVE These Silly Bastards | 138 |
CHAPTER SIX A Vultures Crotch | 167 |
CHAPTER SEVEN BoomBoom Cha | 202 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Four Cocks Fighting | 230 |
CHAPTER NINE Huge Plastic Falsies | 274 |
CHAPTER TEN Sweet Dreams | 306 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN A Ferrari in the Garage | 355 |
Acknowledgements | 394 |
Select Bibliography | 395 |
Index | 396 |
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