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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... Rolling Stones about to follow suit. In Zanzibar, too, everything was about to change, with a political upheaval that would change the Bulsara family's lives for ever. By the early 1960s, British colonial rule of the island was ...
... Rolling Stones about to follow suit. In Zanzibar, too, everything was about to change, with a political upheaval that would change the Bulsara family's lives for ever. By the early 1960s, British colonial rule of the island was ...
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... Rolling Stones and Yardbirds, The Tridents (featuring the young 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 ...
... Rolling Stones and Yardbirds, The Tridents (featuring the young 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 ...
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... roll star should have – style, presence . . .' said Mercury later. 'He'd just make an entrance and the whole place would be on fire. He was living out everything I wanted to be.' I I I Brian May's house isn't the most ostentatious in ...
... roll star should have – style, presence . . .' said Mercury later. 'He'd just make an entrance and the whole place would be on fire. He was living out everything I wanted to be.' I I I Brian May's house isn't the most ostentatious in ...
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... Rolling Stones LP. 'Oh Yeah!' was cocky English pop; a schoolboy Yardbirds, with lots of wailing harmonica and faux menace. While The Others would never crack the charts (re-emerging briefly as The Sands three years later), their ...
... Rolling Stones LP. 'Oh Yeah!' was cocky English pop; a schoolboy Yardbirds, with lots of wailing harmonica and faux menace. While The Others would never crack the charts (re-emerging briefly as The Sands three years later), their ...
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... Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, The Tridents and The Yardbirds. 'I saw The Yardbirds at the Marquee, soon after Jeff Beck joined,' recalled May. 'Eric Clapton came on and jammed at the end. I'll never forget it.' Clapton's next band ...
... Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, The Tridents and The Yardbirds. 'I saw The Yardbirds at the Marquee, soon after Jeff Beck joined,' recalled May. 'Eric Clapton came on and jammed at the end. I'll never forget it.' Clapton's next band ...
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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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