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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... guitarist') takes up his position at the back, close to the drum riser. Despite a pop star's shaggy perm, he most resembles the electronics engineer he'd have become had a career in music not panned out. Earlier in the day, when the ...
... guitarist') takes up his position at the back, close to the drum riser. Despite a pop star's shaggy perm, he most resembles the electronics engineer he'd have become had a career in music not panned out. Earlier in the day, when the ...
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... guitarist', says Geldof), looks almost unchanged since the group began. May undercut his guitar-hero posings with a naturally studious manner. For the Bachelor of Science and former schoolteacher, guitar playing is a serious business ...
... guitarist', says Geldof), looks almost unchanged since the group began. May undercut his guitar-hero posings with a naturally studious manner. For the Bachelor of Science and former schoolteacher, guitar playing is a serious business ...
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... guitarist like a matador goading a bull. Then, while May scrubs away, Mercury fixes the crowd with a mischievous smile and starts tugging the end of the microphone, now pointing out at crotch level. Less lusty rock star, more naughty ...
... guitarist like a matador goading a bull. Then, while May scrubs away, Mercury fixes the crowd with a mischievous smile and starts tugging the end of the microphone, now pointing out at crotch level. Less lusty rock star, more naughty ...
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... guitarist Pete Townshend. According to one of Mercury's friends, 'Freddie wished his life had begun aged twenty-one in Feltham.' This is supported by the fact that he never referred to his time at Isleworth Polytechnic in any interview ...
... guitarist Pete Townshend. According to one of Mercury's friends, 'Freddie wished his life had begun aged twenty-one in Feltham.' This is supported by the fact that he never referred to his time at Isleworth Polytechnic in any interview ...
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... guitarist Jeff Beck), Howlin' Wolf and the Butterfield Blues Band. Once an ornate building, now crumbling into disrepair (George Melly once likened it to 'something from a Tennessee Williams novel'), it was situated on an isle on a ...
... guitarist Jeff Beck), Howlin' Wolf and the Butterfield Blues Band. Once an ornate building, now crumbling into disrepair (George Melly once likened it to 'something from a Tennessee Williams novel'), it was situated on an isle on a ...
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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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