Bertus, please take your childlike behavior and personality back to the store (mommy) and tell her to get you past the age of 12. If you are physically over that age, demand compensation for the lack of development over the years.
I love queen! my top 10 (RadioDaDa belike)
1 Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Somebody To Love
3. Another One Bites The Dust
4. We Will Rock You
5. We Are The Champions
6. Craxy Little Thing Called Love
7. The Show Must Go On
8. I Want To Break Free
9. Radio GAGA
10. A Kind Of Magic
Sorry dipshit. Melancholy Blues top 3. Go write more riviting forums about newbies. We’re all amused
While i enjoy reading most books on Freddie there are the odd one or two which tell lots of lies like the author Laura Jackson who claimed to have known Freddie personally and so for that i have avoided her books like the plague. Peter Hince had a book out a while ago and it was brilliant.
Hey happy star. I’m coming to the end of Peter Fresstones first book. I have Jim Huttons on the way. From what I’ve been reading here on the forume, there are many different opinions some positive and some negative about many of them. Just curious what lies did she tell in the book?
I've always enjoyed Jims book, I bought it as soon as it was released in early 1995. Peter's book is another favourite, I like how he goes into detail about the tours, and gives insight into the recording of each album etc. First Freddie /Queen book I ever got was "The Show Must Go On" by Rick Sky in early 1992. Sky seems to want to give the impression that he and Freddie were great mates, even though I doubt Freddie even knew his name. Sky features an entire chapter on the Barbara Valentin tripe, and when writing about Queens Live Aid performance, lists the songs in the order they appeared in the Elton John tribute documentary. So a quick cash grab after Freddie's death, basically.
Beemack - thanks for the comment. In the book the “show must go on” did the author write about an interview he did with Barbara or was it just things we already know?
RadioDaDa, from the way in which he writes, I have get the impression that he conducted interviews with Valentin, Rhienhold Mack, and others. Sky was a tabloid hack who had a music column in a British paper, IIRC it was the Dailly Mirror. He did brief interviews with Freddie and the band on occasion, but in the book he makes statements such as "as Freddie once told me" and "during one of my conversations with Freddie" as if he was Freddie's great pal when in actual fact he probably plonked himself down and shoved a microphone in Freddie's face.
It's basically the same yawn-fest that she repeated like a mantra, "Freddie and I were lovers blah blah blah", I agree that I always take anything said in the press with a pinch of salt, but for some reason I've always had a problem believing anything that Valentin said. Having read books by Jim and Peter, the Freddie she talks about, during the same period of time, sounds like a different person. Maybe I'm wrong, but I always get the impression that she is indeed "embellishing" stories somewhat.
Beemack- she may be leading on more than what is true. But I also believe that after a wild night of drinking and partying in Munich that anything could have happened behind closed doors.
