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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... told me why his parents had brought him back from India, and I never asked.' There would be no Hectics II in Zanzibar. Instead, Freddie gleaned any scraps of information about pop culture from the English magazines that arrived weeks ...
... told me why his parents had brought him back from India, and I never asked.' There would be no Hectics II in Zanzibar. Instead, Freddie gleaned any scraps of information about pop culture from the English magazines that arrived weeks ...
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... told me what luxuries his family had in Zanzibar, how he'd lived in a house with an ivory-white piano. I think there were times when he missed the life they'd had.' There was also a darker side to the memories. 'After the revolution ...
... told me what luxuries his family had in Zanzibar, how he'd lived in a house with an ivory-white piano. I think there were times when he missed the life they'd had.' There was also a darker side to the memories. 'After the revolution ...
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... told his friends he had flu and never made the trip. Two months later, Brian Fanning bought an 8mm cine camera to college. Over two days he shot around three minutes of silent footage of Freddie, Adrian and others fooling around in the ...
... told his friends he had flu and never made the trip. Two months later, Brian Fanning bought an 8mm cine camera to college. Over two days he shot around three minutes of silent footage of Freddie, Adrian and others fooling around in the ...
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... told you that.' By Easter of 1966 Dusty Springfield's 'You Don't Have to Say You Love Me' was blasting out of the pub jukebox where 'Fred, Ade and Bri' had once held their lunchtime music critique sessions. Three months later, British ...
... told you that.' By Easter of 1966 Dusty Springfield's 'You Don't Have to Say You Love Me' was blasting out of the pub jukebox where 'Fred, Ade and Bri' had once held their lunchtime music critique sessions. Three months later, British ...
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... told him that his guitar wasn't up to scratch and that he would have to buy a new one or leave. 'To be honest, I think Brian was being even more tactful by underplaying the problem with my vocals, which weren't right at the time,' said ...
... told him that his guitar wasn't up to scratch and that he would have to buy a new one or leave. 'To be honest, I think Brian was being even more tactful by underplaying the problem with my vocals, which weren't right at the time,' said ...
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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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