It's a long time since I read it, but I enjoyed Queen: The Early Years by Mark Hodkinson. If you're interested in Queen in general, I found it really interesting to read how everything began for them all.
People might not know but Jim's and Peter's books are like gold dust I think?! I also read Mercury and Me back in the day so already own that, but I have never read any of Peter's books and am finding it incredibly difficult to even source any of his books (for a reasonable price) to read!
For a Freddie book, recently I've loved The Real Life by David Minns and Evans (I'd love to read more from these two and more about Freddie from David Minns' perspective, but I guess there's the voyeur in me, sigh - boo to me.) which is easy and cheapish to find a second hand copy. It is small fragments of stories about Freddie by friends and people who knew him - briefly or well - their first impressions and meetings, then also they each speak about later in their acquaintance and final thoughts. I've found it super-poignant. I always think a biography says as much if not more about the writer as the subject, but when you have fragments from here and there, you really gather some sort of a sense of the person they speak of from how they all talk about and feel about him and from the ways in which accounts contradict or agree. I love it. David Evans made me cry just with the introduction!!
I haven't read it yet, but Peter Hince's book, Queen Unseen is easy to get new & I look forward to reading that.
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Queen Unseen is ok but considering Hince's real life hobby was photography there are ridiculously, frustratingly few photo's in it.
Does anybody know a good place to find Peter Freestone's book? All the copies on Amazon are at extravagant prices. I found Jim Hutton's book at a reasonable price but can't seem to find this one anywhere...
Also someone asked my age range earlier in the thread, I'm in my 20s.
Thanks!
Also someone asked my age range earlier in the thread, I'm in my 20s.
Thanks!
SFF—Peter’s first book is availble on Google Play, at least it is in the USA. I paid $5 and change for it. I did not want to pay $40 on Amazon, even though I would have preferred a hard copy. The Google Play app is free, so I have that on my iPad. There are surely other ways to access Google Play content.
I learned this from someone on QZ, but don’t remember who.
I learned this from someone on QZ, but don’t remember who.
I enjoyed Mark Blake 's "Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of Freddie Mercury and Queen" $9.99 Kindle #17.99 Hard Copy Amazon USA
Remember reading (somewhere, have no idea where) a comment by someone who had been interviewed by Mark Blake and reported that he was meticulous about fact checking, calling several times to clarify information obtained during original interview.
Remember reading (somewhere, have no idea where) a comment by someone who had been interviewed by Mark Blake and reported that he was meticulous about fact checking, calling several times to clarify information obtained during original interview.
Sweetandtenderhooligan wrote:
Jim and Phoebe's books
Stay away from that liar Lesley Ann Jones
LAJ is pure b!tch is my books, no pun intended. Please no one buy or read her shit.
Can you elaborate? I'm currently on a mission to get "real" info versus carp tabloid nonsense. Is Ms. Jones intentionally spewing false info? Thanks in advance for opinions.
Can you elaborate? I'm currently on a mission to get "real" info versus carp tabloid nonsense. Is Ms. Jones intentionally spewing false info? Thanks in advance for opinions.
The Black Queen's Kid wrote:
Can you elaborate? I'm currently on a mission to get "real" info versus carp tabloid nonsense. Is Ms. Jones intentionally spewing false info? Thanks in advance for opinions.
LAJ is tabloid crap and spreads false information to say the least. An appropriate way to put it.
Please don't buy her stuff, she goes for sleaze.
Unfortunately, LAJ's "wishful bisexual thinking" has made it into this months Life Magazine (about Queen). Barbara V was just a funny enjoyable beard for Freddie, but that ho-hum info does not sell books and movies.
Saint Jiub wrote:
Unfortunately, LAJ's "wishful bisexual thinking" has made it into this months Life Magazine (about Queen). Barbara V was just a funny enjoyable beard for Freddie, but that ho-hum info does not sell books and movies.
Oh f**k. One would think Life magazine would have went with someone more reliable and honest. Guess not :-/
I only skimmed the magazine while waiting for a prescription ... fortunately I did not buy the magazine
I do not think it was authored by LAJ. The Life Magazine Queen edition appeared to be as shallowly researched cut and paste job
I do not think it was authored by LAJ. The Life Magazine Queen edition appeared to be as shallowly researched cut and paste job
Saint Jiub wrote:
I only skimmed the magazine while waiting for a prescription ... fortunately I did not buy the magazine
I do not think it was authored by LAJ. The Life Magazine Queen edition appeared to be as shallowly researched cut and paste job
Ew. Glad I will miss out on it after all.
Has anyone purchased Queen in 3D? It seems pretty neat, but I wanted to get other opinions.
^Very recommended