Freddie Mercury book by Peter Freestone

I just received this book today from Amazon and haven't started reading it yet. I was wondering if anyone had read it and what their opinions were about it. Thanks guys.

I hav read it!! It's good but doesn't talk very highly of Mary!!

I have it (from Amazon as well!) and I have been using it as more of a reference book. I'm planning on continuing it and going all the way through (I'm only like 90 pages in) when I finish rereading Fight Club. So far, though, the Freestone book is very insightful. I haven't read much about Mary in the book, but I think she was the genuine article.

he doesnt say anything BAD about mary!!

I personally liked it, it was funny, insightful, not to intrusive...

well, lets just say its not the jibber jabber he gives in interviews, its very much better, and you dont feel like his mouth should have been glued with super glue long ago..

all in all, i liked it alot.

I said he doesn't he doesn't speak very highly of Mary in my opinion!!!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]colfarrell1@aol.com wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I said he doesn't he doesn't speak very highly of Mary in my opinion!!![/QUOTE]

such as? im just wondering..

Thanks guys. I'm looking forward to reading it and I'm sure I'll find some interesting things I didn't know about Freddie before. Thanks again.

I'm reading it now after getting it a few years ago.

I'm finding it disappointing. I expected more insights into the creative processes. The section on videos and album covers particularly...


Let us know what you think when you read it!

Voice of reason.

That's exactly why I didn't even bother getting to half way through it before placing it back on the shelf. There's no structure to the book and all you get are details of what it was like to work for Fred rather than what Fred was actually like. A hard copy of that terrible ITV show that was aired recently.

To be honest, we will NEVER see a book that accurately charts Freddie and his life - the only possible way we will get this is if Brian, Roger and John collaborate on a book about the band - and that's as likely as Freddie being resurrected.

I read it and found the bit where he talks about the house and how it was decorated a bit boring, I didn't like it as much as I thought I would have done but Freddie was never my favourite member so that's probably why. It was worth buying though but takes forever to read.

To be honest, we will NEVER see a book that accurately charts Freddie and his life - the only possible way we will get this is if Brian, Roger and John collaborate on a book about the band - and that's as likely as Freddie being resurrected.[/QUOTE]


i agree! that is the fact!

200 and something pages in at the moment and I'm enjoying it. True, the structure isn't great and the part where he focuses on the house is a bit boring. But so far, so good. There are plenty of nice little moments being fed to the reader, I find.

An important thing I should say is that the first half of the book isn't the best and it's the 2nd half that seems to be moving along nicely.

I especially like the bit where they're in a club and Freddie's taken something. One of his entourage turns a corner and there's Fred in a half-filled bin of cans shouting, "Trash! Oooh! Look! I'm trash!"

Adam.

Close to being a great book...

You might want to skip all the details about every single piece of furniture in the house, and all the shit Freddie bought from auctions. It's absolutely boring.

I'd rather hear about Freddie's cats shitting on their litter boxes.

I have it! I nearly cried at the part in the lead up to Freddie's death! It was sad, but there were parts that really should have been kept private.

yeh i've got it
what do you mean we won't find out what Freddie was really like? Read 'Mercury and Me' by Jim Hutton (Freddie's boyfriend)
its a LOT better then Peter Freestone's one