Peter Hince book, "Queen Unseen"

I've started to read it a couple of days ago.
Great stuff! Very imaginitive! It's like being on the road with the boys.

I have got this book now and having read it, its very informative mainly about the roadies but some good stuff about queen and whats also good about it is that its not scandolous in the way other books have been

Peter Hince seems to be a generally all round nice guy

I've got the book too and almost finished reading it. Don't really know what to think of it - it's a bit too 'insidery' for me. Constantly reminds me of Phoebe's book. Phoebe's book had tons of 'We were not amused' - and Ratty's book is written in a (to me) similar style.

Does anyone have it on pdf format to share it here?

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[b]xmaurox79 wrote: [/b] Does anyone have it on pdf format to share it here?[/QUOTE]

Buy it for Kindle, download it via the Kindle PC program, and convert it to PDF. It's quite simple and legal.

Sorry, I had to chuckle at your 'it's legal' comment, bearing in mind the link in your footer! :-)

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Sorry, I had to chuckle at your 'it's legal' comment, bearing in mind the link in your footer! :-)[/QUOTE]

You weren't the only one !

I have the brazilian version, it's a nice and fun book, better that peter

I just finished reading it a couple days ago, and it was a very good book (unless you're looking for tabloid-like stuff of which it has none).
There seems to be something a little confusing regarding the brazilian concerts (to me at least) in there though. He says that a concert date was scheduled for Belo Horizonte in 1981 and it was cancelled for some "odd reason" (or something, can't recall the words he used) but I think he confused it with the 84/85 concerts. As far as I can remember, in 81 the concert(s?) would be just in Rio, then when they didn't get the permission to play in the Maracanã stadium the concert(s) were rescheduled to São Paulo at the Morumbi, there were no other cities even rumoured let alone Belo Horizonte which is always left out, mostly during these days. In 1984 (mid-84 I think, can't remember exactly) though it seems that a big brazilian tour was planned with concerts in SP, Rio, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre. There were even some bombastic radio advertisement for a couple weeks for these, at least for Belo Horizonte (where I live...). But when they were contacted to play at the Rock in Rio I it seems the whole tour was cancelled or put on hold, without any explanation at the time.

Bearing in mind the title of the book and the fact Hince was taking photos all through his time with Queen (and in fact gave it all up to become a photographer) there is an agonisingly small amount of photos in the book. It's a bit of a con really.

I think unseen refers to the story the book tells. In that it's a genuine inside view of what it was like working with them. Very different from being a fan sitting in row B section 112in an arena somewhere or a journalist writing a jaded review or someone with no real connection to the band writing an in depth book.

I see your point about the photographic view though.

I make the book title right, there was a lot of photos you didn't get to see.

Excellent book. And despite his irreverent down to earth approach he seemed genuinely in awe of Freddie at times. To me it gives a more realistic take than other books on what the band were like to work with .

In 1983, performances were planned in Uruguay and Brazil. Attach an announcement of the tour in Brazil.