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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... says Morrish. 'He liked the attention and he liked being onstage because he was also quite full of himself. That was the first indication we had that he could also be an exhibitionist.' Alan Hill appeared alongside Freddie in The ...
... says Morrish. 'He liked the attention and he liked being onstage because he was also quite full of himself. That was the first indication we had that he could also be an exhibitionist.' Alan Hill appeared alongside Freddie in The ...
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... says Morrish. 'His parents took a very dim view of the idea, and he stormed out of the house.' To fund his social life, Freddie found part-time work through Alan Hill. 'I used to design the artwork for the National Boys' Club magazine ...
... says Morrish. 'His parents took a very dim view of the idea, and he stormed out of the house.' To fund his social life, Freddie found part-time work through Alan Hill. 'I used to design the artwork for the National Boys' Club magazine ...
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... says Brian Fanning. 'We went to see Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry and tap-dancing one-man band Jesse Fuller. But even then Fred left early and sober . . . or comparatively sober.' Also at Eel Pie that night was a friend from outside the ...
... says Brian Fanning. 'We went to see Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry and tap-dancing one-man band Jesse Fuller. But even then Fred left early and sober . . . or comparatively sober.' Also at Eel Pie that night was a friend from outside the ...
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... says. 'When I went out with a girl, he used to go out with her afterwards.' By 1966, the end of his time at the Polytechnic, Freddie had swapped the outmoded clothes for more fashionable threads. He'd also lost some of the gaucheness he ...
... says. 'When I went out with a girl, he used to go out with her afterwards.' By 1966, the end of his time at the Polytechnic, Freddie had swapped the outmoded clothes for more fashionable threads. He'd also lost some of the gaucheness he ...
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... says, 'I'm not very good at being a rock star.' It is June 1998, May has a solo album to promote, but will patiently submit to the usual round of questions about Queen and, especially, their late singer Freddie Mercury. Today, he will ...
... says, 'I'm not very good at being a rock star.' It is June 1998, May has a solo album to promote, but will patiently submit to the usual round of questions about Queen and, especially, their late singer Freddie Mercury. Today, he will ...
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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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