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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... playing is a serious business. In the early days, May would mutter under his breath like a tennis player psyching himself for an important point. Meanwhile, you wonder if Roger Taylor isn't frustrated at spending his working life hidden ...
... playing is a serious business. In the early days, May would mutter under his breath like a tennis player psyching himself for an important point. Meanwhile, you wonder if Roger Taylor isn't frustrated at spending his working life hidden ...
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... played the school's upright piano. In an environment starved of the real thing, The Hectics became the star attraction at any school function, playing to a mixed audience that included a highly enthusiastic contingent from the ...
... played the school's upright piano. In an environment starved of the real thing, The Hectics became the star attraction at any school function, playing to a mixed audience that included a highly enthusiastic contingent from the ...
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... played London's Saville Theatre on 29 January 1967. For May, seeing Hendrix was a pivotal moment. 'I was already playing, I was in groups. Then this guy came along who was so far in advance of everyone else it was frightening,' he ...
... played London's Saville Theatre on 29 January 1967. For May, seeing Hendrix was a pivotal moment. 'I was already playing, I was in groups. Then this guy came along who was so far in advance of everyone else it was frightening,' he ...
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... player . . .' One evening, Harold came home with a Lonnie Donegan record. Donegan's 1955 hit 'Rock Island Line' bump-started the skiffle boom of the mid-fifties, with homegrown musicians playing an amalgam of American folk, blues and ...
... player . . .' One evening, Harold came home with a Lonnie Donegan record. Donegan's 1955 hit 'Rock Island Line' bump-started the skiffle boom of the mid-fifties, with homegrown musicians playing an amalgam of American folk, blues and ...
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... playing his Spanish guitar. 'I remember walking around one of the corridors in the upstairs wing and hearing this guy playing an acoustic guitar and singing that Tommy Steel thing, “Singing the Blues” [a hit for Steele in 1957 and Guy ...
... playing his Spanish guitar. 'I remember walking around one of the corridors in the upstairs wing and hearing this guy playing an acoustic guitar and singing that Tommy Steel thing, “Singing the Blues” [a hit for Steele in 1957 and Guy ...
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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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