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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... debut released just two months before Live Aid. None had yet succeeded in forging a separate identity as a solo artist away from what Brian May called 'The Mothership'. The plan after Live Aid was for Queen to take time off, and not to ...
... debut released just two months before Live Aid. None had yet succeeded in forging a separate identity as a solo artist away from what Brian May called 'The Mothership'. The plan after Live Aid was for Queen to take time off, and not to ...
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... debut in The Kitchen, his family had arrived in England for the first time. Farrokh Bulsara was born on 5 September 1946 in Zanzibar City on Unguja, the largest of Zanzibar's two islands. A protectorate of the British Empire since the ...
... debut in The Kitchen, his family had arrived in England for the first time. Farrokh Bulsara was born on 5 September 1946 in Zanzibar City on Unguja, the largest of Zanzibar's two islands. A protectorate of the British Empire since the ...
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... debut on the pop show Ready Steady Go. It offered suburban England its first sighting of a musical force of nature. Just three days after arriving in the capital, Hendrix, then a complete unknown, had jammed with the house band at the ...
... debut on the pop show Ready Steady Go. It offered suburban England its first sighting of a musical force of nature. Just three days after arriving in the capital, Hendrix, then a complete unknown, had jammed with the house band at the ...
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... debut concert took place, in a venue just opposite Eel Pie Island. John Sanger tagged along to play keyboards. 'This was in the days before electronic keyboards,' continues Dave. 'At some gigs John would play the school hall's upright ...
... debut concert took place, in a venue just opposite Eel Pie Island. John Sanger tagged along to play keyboards. 'This was in the days before electronic keyboards,' continues Dave. 'At some gigs John would play the school hall's upright ...
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... debut – The Others, a band comprised of five Hampton Grammar pupils, three from the same year as May and Dilloway, released a single, 'Oh Yeah!', a song recorded by Bo Diddley. 'That made them mini-heroes at school,' recalls Dave, and ...
... debut – The Others, a band comprised of five Hampton Grammar pupils, three from the same year as May and Dilloway, released a single, 'Oh Yeah!', a song recorded by Bo Diddley. 'That made them mini-heroes at school,' recalls Dave, and ...
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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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