Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words

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So, what you need to know about this book is that it is not an autobiography in the usual sense of the world. Cuando tu ídolo a marcado un época y es una leyenda, como Freddie Mercury, lees todo sobre él, y más cuando he utilizado muchos de sus temas, muchas de sus letras en mis novelas. Just to be clear, this book is not a new biography of Freddie - I think we have seen enough of those. Unfortunately, the interviews and videos of them, in general, are very bad quality (they're so old), so I decided to read a book about them to find out more and this book is the first one I picked up.

I think this kind of memoir is much, much better than reading a whole "he was born xxx, he went to xxx school". Freddie Mercury is one of my icons, and the tragedy of his passing touches me very strongly as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. And he does it, of course, in his own inimitable, unpredictable, invariably funny, often poignant, and always entertaining way. I have become fascinated with Freddie Mercury since falling in love with the film Bohemian Rhapsody.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He talked so much about how important Queen was to him on so many differing levels throughout his career. I look back at myself, and think oh my God, how could I have done that, wearing black nail varnish, the long hair and the make-up. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Mercury was an incredibly private person, but occasionally he would explain something of his personal philosophy in a TV or press interview.

I have no criticism for the words of Freddie Mercury himself, but the way this book was put together wasn't that cohesive and because it was taken from lots of different interviews, some parts of it were very repetitive. Spurred on by their almost uncontrollable ambitious and forthright front man, Queen succeeded in becoming one of the biggest bands on the planet. Freddie Mercury was the most interesting and charming performer I had the bad luck to not see -I was a child when he died-.The truth was that Freddie was painfully shy and uncomfortable in the company of anyone who might intrude upon his famous ‘royal family’ of close friends and invited guests. Freddie Mercury died, aged just 45, but he left a legacy of incredible music and incredible performances. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Molti spunti interessanti e un tuffo nella vita di un grandissimo artista, quindi non mi sento di dare meno di tre stelle, ma il tutto risulta poco leggibile. If you want to read this because you're looking for details of his private life: you won't really find it. Já não me lembro da última vez que desisti de um livro, e nunca pensei que fosse desistir de um livro sobre/com palavras do meu ídolo. Freddie’s own personal story is one of pursuing a dream, dealing with wealth and fame, looking back and having no regrets, reflecting on getting old, his legacy, and death. In 20 chapters, 194 pages and nearly 73,000 words—and 45 years in the making—Freddie covers it all, and then some!Still, this book was what it claimed to be: a memoir style compilation of words spoken and written by the famous Freddie Mercury. Parole e pensieri sia stato una sorpresa, perché pure nella mia refrattarietà ai dettagli biografici e dintorni, tante parole e pensieri di Freddie mi erano familiari, ma è stato bello rileggerle. Now, remember, this isn't like reading a biography on Freddie nor is it HIM telling us his life so far, talking about his illness etc. No le doy las cinco estrellas porque no sé cuán verídico es todo lo que "Freddie” nos cuenta en este libro. Certo, non è che se mi capita non legga articoli o guardi interviste, ma non sento la necessità impellente di sapere tutto lo scibile sull’artista X.