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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... sounds of The Shadows' guitarist Hank Marvin led to Brian and his father installing homemade pickups on the Spanish guitar. 'We used magnets and wire,' May recalls, 'and plugged it into my dad's radio and it sounded brilliant.' At ...
... sounds of The Shadows' guitarist Hank Marvin led to Brian and his father installing homemade pickups on the Spanish guitar. 'We used magnets and wire,' May recalls, 'and plugged it into my dad's radio and it sounded brilliant.' At ...
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... sound they wanted, Brian relented and installed Burns pick-ups (as favoured by The Shadows). 'Then I bought the fretwire from a shop called Clifford Essex in [London's] Cambridge Circus,' he recalled. 'But everything 30 IS THIS THE REAL ...
... sound they wanted, Brian relented and installed Burns pick-ups (as favoured by The Shadows). 'Then I bought the fretwire from a shop called Clifford Essex in [London's] Cambridge Circus,' he recalled. 'But everything 30 IS THIS THE REAL ...
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... sound and tonality. Once completed, and varnished a deep mahogany hue, the homemade guitar came to be known as the 'Red Special'. Showing his customary eye for detail, May photographed the construction of the instrument at every stage ...
... sound and tonality. Once completed, and varnished a deep mahogany hue, the homemade guitar came to be known as the 'Red Special'. Showing his customary eye for detail, May photographed the construction of the instrument at every stage ...
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... sound was the antithesis of 1984. While The Others seemed to have cornered some of the 'raw sex and anger' that May so admired in The Yardbirds, Brian himself was still the shrinking violet. 'He was never an extrovert onstage,' says ...
... sound was the antithesis of 1984. While The Others seemed to have cornered some of the 'raw sex and anger' that May so admired in The Yardbirds, Brian himself was still the shrinking violet. 'He was never an extrovert onstage,' says ...
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... sound and virtuosity spun the blues off into myriad directions. Between them, Clapton and Hendrix opened up May's eyes to a world of musical possibilities. Not long after Brian saw Hendrix blow The Who offstage at the Saville Theatre ...
... sound and virtuosity spun the blues off into myriad directions. Between them, Clapton and Hendrix opened up May's eyes to a world of musical possibilities. Not long after Brian saw Hendrix blow The Who offstage at the Saville Theatre ...
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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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