queenfan09 - I checked out the thirftybooks website and found Peter Freestone's book for a decent price. It was the hardback copy - so I was especially excited about that. I have it on my kindle, but I like to go back and reread portions of the book and that is too difficult on the Kindle
doughnut - I agree - I was ready to buy several books before reading the reviews from this site.
I am currently reading The Virtuoso in the Closet and although it is fiction - I am enjoying it.
From ChevyMan a few pages back:
Galileo, Gaetan Dugas wasnt he a flight attendant.I think they blamed alot on that guy and it's no more his fault than it is anyone else.This is the way I see things they were dealing with this awful virus that was killing people some in hours of getting to hospitals because they didnt know they were sick.They had to blame someone.So they pin it on gay men which I think was a chicken shit thing to do.By the time they dug their heads out of their ass and figured out what they were dealing with they noticed heterosexual people were getting it as well.So my question is why single one man out or one group of people just because you cant figure out what was truly causing AIDS?I dont get it.
Now me talking. (Quote feature doesn’t work on iPad).
Yes, Gaetan Dugas was an Air Canada Flight Attendant.
I’m not sure who you mean by “they”.
There really wasn’t any heads-in-arse thing among the doctors and scientists who treated and studied the early patients. Regan and some in his administration were another matter, as were various officials in France. The funding for the new disease was not in proportion to what other emerging public health issues received.
I lived in Canada during that era, where I grew up, but certainly heard the sort of stuff you’re saying from the Moral Majority type of people, so maybe that is what you’re reacting to.
In Europe (but not the UK) the first patients identified were heterosexual so over there they never understood the American view that it was a gay disease.
And to try to bring this back on topic, I heard somewhere that Freddie hated the stigma. Perhaps Phoebe said that. And I feel for him that he experienced that. I think he loved his doctors though. I certainly got that impression from Phoebe.
Oh crap my post ended up in the wrong thread. Please ignore. It belongs in Thor’s thread.
There will be a new book by Rudi Dolezal released on 1.June :)
Now I´m very glad I can speak German too :)
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/385445614X
oh now so will Rudi's book be in German ?
this is the blurb for Rdui's book which is coming out in June, not sure if it will be in English as I had to translate this from German
There's been a lot said and written about Freddie Mercury. But what has never been there before is a book from the so-called inner circle, that small circle of friends and colleagues who really got to know the man Freddie Mercury, not just the Queen singer and superstar. Rudi Dolezal belonged to this inner circle. The multi-award-winning video and film director was not only the personal filmmaker of Freddie Mercury & Queen for over twenty years, but also one of his best friends. Now, more than 25 years after Mercury's tragic death, Dolezal has picked up his diaries and recalls his very personal story with the world star: from that moment on, as he, a young editor, sweats his hands on the first interview prepared with the singer, until the shocking phone call in which Mercury's manager told him about his death. For decades, Dolezal had been there where no journalist would ever have come: backstage at countless video shoots, concerts, and travel, but most of all private moments. This book is not a complete biography, says Rudi Dolezal, but tells stories, experiences, adventures that I experienced during many years as a director and friend with Freddie and I have not told anyone until today. And there's a lot to tell: from crazy parties where dwarfs were baked into chocolate cake, from the night a whole nightclub was redecorated for Freddie's 200,000 DM, from legendary concerts like the one in Rio de Janeiro, Freddie's in front of 600,000 spectators,
Doughnut
I'm sure there will be a translation. But I always prefer the original because the translation is always just only an interpretation of somebody else's thoughts.
As I mentioned earlier in this thread I have read some very surprising information in translated books about FM which never appeared in original language.
Without no doubts English translation will be great for sure. But original is always better ??
LOL the annotation: there has never been a book from inner circle? Peter and Jim are what? A servant and a gardener of course they know nothing :D
agree, that was my first thought 'never been a book from someone in the inner circle...ummmmm ........ I am sure that can't have come from Rudi? I hope not unless he lives under a rock lol
emdee I have now read both of the V in the closet books. I enjoyed them ; they were a bit racey in parts lol
I am looking forward to the next instalment
so I have just ordered Mercury & Me in paperback . I have it on kindle but I keep seeing people showing off their book version so I couldn't help myself. It was £6.78 and it is coming tomorrow as I have amazon prime
Oh I would like to have mine on paper too. Enjoy the reading!
I'm spending my Friday evening searching for quotations from "in his own words" book in various interviews and articles. It is a great book but it annoys me that I don't know where does this or that bit come from so I can't put it into a context.
I really hope Dolezal is not that stupid to claim such things. It had to be written by publisher. Call me naive if you want :)
I feel it is the publisher that has created the blurb from Rudi 's book .
However , I imagine he did know Freddie very well as he did a lot of the queen videos in the later part of the 80's and he did a few interviews, the last being the one in 1987 where he talks about the great pretender song. It looks like the interview was at Freddie home .
He did also do the untold story .
has anyone got As it began? I would like it but it's so hard to get and expensive
I have it only in Czech. It's quite impossible to get one in English.
How about contacting Queen fanclub and ask for reprint? It is an official Queen publication isn't it? Maybe they could consider it after BoRhap movie.
