I read Ratty's book and it was all about how many women and drugs he had. I also got the impression that Queen were areseholes except for John. Freddie comes across are a real difficult bloke, despite all the supposed generosity people talk about. [/QUOTE]
It's probably closer to reality than you think. Jim Hutton painted Freddie as generous and kind indeed, but he also talks about his tantrums. Ratty's impressions don't contradict Hutton's. He was definitely a nice but moody kind of guy.
dudeofqueen · Member since
Queen: The Early Years - absolutely indispensable and should be on every fan's shelf.
Queen Unseen - again indispensable.
As It Began - useful for a global overview. It's about time an official bio of +QUEEN: 1971 - 1991+ was done in full and comprehensively.
Mercury and Me - worth a read on the loo; cringe-worthy in many, many ways, but gives a good insight in to Freddie from a 1st hand source.
Lesley Ann Jones is a typical tabloid writer (Daily Mail reader) and ought to be banned from putting pen to paper ever again.
FunLovinCriminal · Member since
The least interesting of all the Freddie-books is the one by Lesley-Ann Jones.Way too much Budapest-stuff and her silly suggestion that Freddie might in truth have been straight, makes it an appalling read. Also, I am really not interested on whether Freddie was being fucked or if he liked to fuck. Getting into it showed what Jones was after...
Somebody To Love is by far the best book on Freddie's later life as it tells his story alongside the spreading of the virus. It also features a halfway decent explanation of the reason that kept Freddie from coming out as a gay man in the late 70's. Having said that, he was still a coward for appearing with Mary Austin as his girlfriend for publicity reasons...
Jim Hutton obviously lacked contemplation as his book seldom questioned Freddie's sometimes rather dubious moves (Austin arguing against Freddie buying Jim a car - Mercury should have simply told her to fuck off).
I enjoyed Freestones first book, but Peter could have gotten into greater detail here and there. There are dozens of great Freddie-stories which have never been published in a book so far...
