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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... called 'The Mothership'. The plan after Live Aid was for Queen to take time off, and not to tour again for at least five years, if at all. Later, Live Aid promoter Harvey Goldsmith will applaud the band for not fighting for a later ...
... called 'The Mothership'. The plan after Live Aid was for Queen to take time off, and not to tour again for at least five years, if at all. Later, Live Aid promoter Harvey Goldsmith will applaud the band for not fighting for a later ...
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... called a 'sheltered' upbringing, recalling the splendour of his uncle's villa in Dar es Salaam in neighbouring Tanganyika: 'I'd be woken by the servant. Clutching an orange juice, I'd literally step out on to the beach.' In truth ...
... called a 'sheltered' upbringing, recalling the splendour of his uncle's villa in Dar es Salaam in neighbouring Tanganyika: 'I'd be woken by the servant. Clutching an orange juice, I'd literally step out on to the beach.' In truth ...
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... called Freddie 'Bucky' to his face ('or they would have had us to contend with'). But others maintain that he was widely known by this nickname or, as Subash Shah remembers it, 'Buckwee'. Similarly, while Bruce Murray says that Freddie ...
... called Freddie 'Bucky' to his face ('or they would have had us to contend with'). But others maintain that he was widely known by this nickname or, as Subash Shah remembers it, 'Buckwee'. Similarly, while Bruce Murray says that Freddie ...
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... called the bui-bui,' says Shah. 'One time we all went to the beach as a class. At this time the dance craze the Twist was very big on the island. It was the first time any of us had seen the girls without their bui-buis. There they were ...
... called the bui-bui,' says Shah. 'One time we all went to the beach as a class. At this time the dance craze the Twist was very big on the island. It was the first time any of us had seen the girls without their bui-buis. There they were ...
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... Brian relented and installed Burns pick-ups (as favoured by The Shadows). 'Then I bought the fretwire from a shop called Clifford Essex in [London's] Cambridge Circus,' he recalled. 'But everything 30 IS THIS THE REAL LIFE?
... Brian relented and installed Burns pick-ups (as favoured by The Shadows). 'Then I bought the fretwire from a shop called Clifford Essex in [London's] Cambridge Circus,' he recalled. 'But everything 30 IS THIS THE REAL LIFE?
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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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