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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... stage, his exaggerated gait suggests a ballet dancer running for a bus. It's difficult to imagine any twenty-first-century music business Svengali or reality TV judge buying into the notion of the 38-yearold Mercury as a global pop star ...
... stage, his exaggerated gait suggests a ballet dancer running for a bus. It's difficult to imagine any twenty-first-century music business Svengali or reality TV judge buying into the notion of the 38-yearold Mercury as a global pop star ...
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... stage, Freddie Mercury seats himself at a piano stage left. The audience erupts as he picks out the opening figure to 'Bohemian Rhapsody' – how else to start? – crossing his hands with a camp flourish to play the high notes. As he ...
... stage, Freddie Mercury seats himself at a piano stage left. The audience erupts as he picks out the opening figure to 'Bohemian Rhapsody' – how else to start? – crossing his hands with a camp flourish to play the high notes. As he ...
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... stage today. Not, it seems, on Queen's watch. 'They understood the idea that Live Aid was a global jukebox,' said Geldof. 'And that Freddie could ponce about in front of the whole world.' Onstage, Queen may have already tasted victory ...
... stage today. Not, it seems, on Queen's watch. 'They understood the idea that Live Aid was a global jukebox,' said Geldof. 'And that Freddie could ponce about in front of the whole world.' Onstage, Queen may have already tasted victory ...
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... traded the blazer for a white porter's jacket. His stage prop is a broom. Ten years later, the front page headline of the 28 December 1974 edition of Melody Maker is 'QUEEN'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE'. Beneath it CHAPTER TWO Are You Experienced?
... traded the blazer for a white porter's jacket. His stage prop is a broom. Ten years later, the front page headline of the 28 December 1974 edition of Melody Maker is 'QUEEN'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE'. Beneath it CHAPTER TWO Are You Experienced?
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... stage 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 ...
... stage 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 ...
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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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