Freddie Mercury 'An intimate memoir by the man who knew him best'
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 | Product Details: Paperback 256 pages Release Date: 01 November 2001 Publisher: Omnibus Press ISBN: 0711986746 Rating:   Sales Rank: 25556 | | Look for similar books by subject: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: the most boring book i have ever come across (24 October 2008)As a liflong fan of Freddie & Queen,i looked forward to reading more about the legend that is Freddie.After sixty pages,i gave up on this nonsense.Quite obviously written to cash in on one of musics' greats.It is written in a very boring style that irritates containing nothing of interest and should never have been published.Save your hard earned cash and avoid.There are far better books about Freddie out there. Disappointed (25 March 2008)I'm not a Queen fan but I bought this book by "glücklicher Zufall" - happy accident, after literally stumbling into Freddy's statue in Montreux Switzerland. The Swiss just don't do statues and I was really touched as people came up to kiss and touch this fantastic image of Freddy in what became his adopted city. Two weeks later in Paris (sorry for blatant name-dropping) I saw the book and bought it immediately. I wanted to know "the real Freddy Mercury" and with wife and kids away I plonked myself down eagerly looking forward to reading this "intimate memoir by the man who knew him best" (Cover page). Oh dear. A great disappointment. I found out about lots Freddy's taste in curtains, linens and bathroom fixtures, but precious little I didn't already know about the man. No dirt, no sleaze - not an issue for me, but I just didn't feel I knew this man any better even after 250 pages. It was just mundane and superficial anecdotes. Memorable tales? No. Sorry Queen fans, there must be better biographies on the market. But I would say to you - go to Montreux if you've not already been and see how the Swiss have have commemorated this great musician and entertainer. I think you'll enjoy your trip. A fake story fron fake friend (07 November 2007)This man was officially presented as Freddie close friend. But really he is a servant who made himself famous spreading dirty stories about Freddie private life. And everybody believe in it because his lie officially supported by Queen Productions, Queen official fan club and Queen manager Jim Beach. This man is a total liar, his stories - a total fiction, his photos - cheap fake. The people who worked with photoshop laughed hysterically when they saw this kids created photos with "Freddie and his loves". So, it's taken from this book. ...this lady arrived in the early part of the concert days with the intention of orally catering of the physical needs of as many people as possible involved in the show. It goes without saying that Freddie had admiration for this woman's severance, technique and capacity! So, teenagers can buy it! Shame. Life Behind The Keyhole. (20 April 2007)As a card carrying member of the Queen Fan Club, circa 1977, I was really looking forward to reading this. It wasn`t bad, but some of the detail regarding Freddie`s house furnishings was downright dull. I wasn`t really sure whether it was written by the house-keeper of an outrageous rock star or Lloyd Grossman. There is absolutely no scandal or tittle-tattle, and believe me, I was looking forward to tittle-tattle. Freestone mentions how Freddie`s ex-manager had hurt him without going into any detail, I read later that he had sold stories to the press. The book has it`s really good moments such as describing Christmas and New Year at Garden Lodge, and the last years of Freddie`s life. The final times are really poignant. It is obvious the author cared deeply for his subject, and in some ways life at Freddie`s place was like a gay Gracelands. Everyone did their duty whether it was feeding the cats or cooking the dinner. Freddie had nothing to do except be Freddie. And he never got doing that for anywhere near long enough.In the end, the greatest rock star ever seen just faded away because of that awful disease. Interestingly, Freestone makes no reference to his own sexuality, we are unaware whether he is gay, straight or bi. What amazed me was the apparent lack of contact between Queen`s lead singer and the other members of the group. There are some good pictures, although everyone looks the same, short hair and black moustache. It was hard to spot Fred. The most disturbing photo showed a bunch of happy men, all wearing hats, all in the prime of life and all mugging for the camera. It was possible to draw a line through the group to connect Freddie, his ex-manager and one of Freddie`s ex-lovers, and realise they were now all dead. Tragic. Freddie Mercury The AfterLife by David Evans and Peter Freestone. (03 March 2007)I wrote this because all the other reviews seemed to be about the first book and not this second book, so I thought this second book, Freddie Mercury The Afterlife, needed an actual review, so here goes: The front cover is a lovely, sweet picture of Freddie and Miko, the back cover is a portion of the final arrangements made for Freddie. I wasn't expecting to see that and it made me very sad even though I know he has been gone 16 years now. This second book takes up where the first one left off and is a description of Peter (Phoebe) Freestone's life since Freddie's passing. He talks about the various things he has been doing throughout the years. Peter mentions what the people talked about in the first book are doing as of 2003. There are some pictures I hadn't seen before within the book. Peter describes a visit he paid to Garden Lodge in 2003, where he met with Mary Austin and got to see Delilah again. He discusses some of the many books which have been written about Freddie and what he thinks of them. I only mentioned some things, the book contains much more than what I mention. David Evans speaks in it too and there's even Recipes of the different foods that would be made for Freddie. Personally, it helped me to read this second book because it cleared up some confusion I had about some things written in the first book and too, even if it is silly on my part, it was nice to learn that Peter was okay, I had wondered since reading the first book. | |
