Freddie Mercury A Kind Of Magic

Author : Mark Blake
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783237784

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Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic by Mark Blake Pdf

Freddie Mercury was rock’s most dazzling showman, a legendary entertainer who in 1991, at the age of just forty-five, became the first major music star to die of AIDS. Mercury’s soaring four-octave voice was a defining element in Queen’s unique sound, crucial to the success of the band’s fifteen studio albums, from Queen (1973) to Made in Heaven (1995). He was also a supremely talented songwriter and musician who wrote many of the band’s greatest hits, including ‘Killer Queen’, ‘We Are the Champions’ and their biggest triumph, the epic anthem ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. As a solo artist he released two acclaimed albums: Mr. Bad Guy in 1985 and the operatic 'Barcelona' with Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé in 1988. Mercury’s extraordinary charisma was perhaps best seen in his imperious live performances, in which he’d hold vast stadium crowds to rapturous attention. His outrageous theatrics, physicality and over-the-top costumes led one commentator to describe him as ‘a performer out to tease, shock, and ultimately charm his audience with various extravagant versions of himself’. He pushed the limits of camp in everything he did. His extreme behaviour, in a society in which being gay was only starting to be accepted, just added to Freddie Mercury’s allure. With expert understanding, Mark Blake traces Mercury’s life from his childhood in Zanzibar and India to his untimely death, and charts his astonishing achievements including in Queen’s world-conquering performance at Live Aid in 1985. In the year that marks what would have been his seventieth birthday, Freddie Mercury: A Life celebrates a remarkable life, lived to the fullest. Featuring revealing interviews with fellow musicians, producers and collaborators, and a detailed discography and timeline, this is a memorable tribute to a unique recording artist and an irreplaceable performer who rocked the world.

Author : Mark Blake
Publisher : Backbeat Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1495030113

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Freddie Mercury by Mark Blake Pdf

Best known as the lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury had an amazing four-octave voice. His range was a distinctive element in the band's unique sound, resulting in more than a dozen million-selling albums through the 1970s, '80s, and early '90s. Mark Blake traces Freddie's astonishing achievements from his childhood in Zanzibar and India to his world-conquering performance at Live Aid in 1985 and beyond.

Author : Mark Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2809914397

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Freddie Mercury by Mark Blake Pdf

Vingt-cinq ans après sa disparition, le sortilège jeté par Farrokh Bulsara alias Freddie Mercury sur des millions de fans n'a toujours pas été levé. La faute à un vibrato envoûtant, une technique de chant et des capacités vocales surnaturelles, une théâtralité excentrique, des tenues outrancières, un pied de micro scié en guise de baguette magique qui ont frappé à jamais les coeurs et les esprits. Si le grand nombre de tubes à la tête du groupe Queen - tels "Killer Queen" (1974), "We are the Champions" (1977) ainsi que l'épique "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975) - ou dans le cadre de sa carrière solo - le lyrique "Barcelona" (1988) avec la soprano espagnole Montserrat Caballé -, a révélé un auteur-compositeur prodigieusement talentueux, son extraordinaire charisme l'a aussi classé comme "un show man fait pour provoquer, choquer et finalement charmer son public avec diverses versions extravagantes de lui-même". En cette année qui marque ce qui aurait été le soixante-dixième anniversaire de ce prestidigitateur du rock, Mark Blake retrace la vie du complexe Farrokh/Freddie depuis son enfance à Zanzibar et en Inde jusqu'à sa mort prématurée en 1991. Entre postures scéniques et impostures pudiques, extravagance et intimité, il passe en revue ses étonnantes prouesses avec comme point culminant une performance miraculeuse au Live Aid en 1985. L'hommage inédit à un interprète unique et un performer irremplaçable qui ensorcela le monde entier.

Author : Ross Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 1874130019

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A Kind of Magic by Ross Clarke Pdf

Author : Michael A. O'Neill
Publisher : Danann Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Rock groups
ISBN : 1912332221

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Queen a Kind of Magic by Michael A. O'Neill Pdf

Queen are one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world. "Another One Bites the Dust" (1980) became their best-selling single, while their 1981 compilation album Greatest Hits is the best-selling album in the UK and is certified eight times platinum in the US. Their record sales range from 150 million to 300 million records, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2018 they were presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Author : Peter Freestone
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857121271

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Freddie Mercury: An Intimate Memoir by the Man who Knew Him Best by Peter Freestone Pdf

An intimate memoir of the flamboyant Queen singer by the man who knew him best. Peter Freestone was Freddie Mercury’s Personal Assistant for the last 12 years of his life. He lived with Mercury in London, Munich and New York, and he was with him when he died. In this book, the most intimate account of Mercury’s life ever written, he reveals the truth behind the scandalous rumours, the outrageous lifestyle and Mercury’s relationships with men, women and the other members of Queen. From the famous names – including Elton John, Kenny Everett, Elizabeth Taylor and Rod Stewart – to the shadowy army of lovers, fixers and hangers-on, Peter Freestone saw them all play their part in the tragi-comedy that was Freddie Mercury’s life. Freestone lived with Mercury in Europe and America for over a decade. From the East 50s apartment in New York to Kensington Lodge, the house in London where Mercury died – not to mention innumerable international hotel rooms and apartments in between – Freestone was always on hand to serve and protect the man he had first met in the Biba department store in the early 1970s. Then Queen was a largely unknown band. Soon it would be the most glitzy of glam rock bands. Freestone saw the fame arrive and with it the generosity, the excess, and the celebrity friends who came and went. “I was chief cook and bottle washer, waiter, butler, valet, secretary, amanuensis, cleaner, baby-sitter… and agony aunt,” he writes. “I shopped for him both at supermarkets and art markets, I travelled the world with him, I was with him at the highs and came through the lows with him. I saw the creative juices flow and I also saw the frustration when life wasn’t going well. I acted as his bodyguard when needed and in the end, of course, I was one of his nurses.” Freestone’s bet-selling account of a talented and extravagant star’s life and death is compelling, entertaining and ultimately, very touching. Illustrated with many photos from personal and Freestone’s own archives. Press Reviews“An entertaining and thought provoking read” – PRS for Music Sales “This collection of Freddie’s own words is the closest thing there is to an autobiography of a man with no regrets. The foreword is written by his mother” – reFRESH magazine, Leading Gay mag in the UK

Author : Sarah Hue-Williams,Peter Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1910787817

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A Kind of Magic by Sarah Hue-Williams,Peter Edwards Pdf

After 1918, post-war euphoria spread across Europe and America. Technology was changing the pace of life and aeroplanes, motorcars and ocean liners were making the world a smaller place with improved communications. Some were making their fortunes, and for those who could afford it, it was an exciting time of cocktail parties, nightclubs and jazz. Fashion was Paris, elegance, the Paris Expo of 1925 and Art Deco with the lure of the avant-garde; but much of the wealth was in America, represented by the jazz age, glamour, The Great Gatsby and Hollywood. And the emancipated, wealthy, fashionable woman of means wanted newly-designed jewellery and accessories decorated with contemporary motifs to reflect her new status. The vanity case, the ultimate jewelled fashion accessory, was designed and made mostly in Paris by the skilled designers and craftsmen who understood that the fashionable modern woman needed a practical solution to containing her lipstick, powder compact, cigarettes, lighter, theatre tickets, keys and all the other small paraphernalia about her person.0Made of precious metals including platinum and gold, with inlays of lacquer, gemstones, mother of pearl, jade, or enamel, these 'reticules' took hundreds of hours of patient craftsmanship to complete and were very, very expensive. Objects of desire to be passed round and shown off at gatherings of the super-rich, they became miniature status symbols to be seen with at the opera or restaurant.

Author : Francesco Colafella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8892811509

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The game of Freddie Mercury. A kind of magic by Francesco Colafella Pdf

Author : Peter Hince
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784188795

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Queen Unseen - My Life with the Greatest Rock Band of the 20th Century: Revised and with Added Material by Peter Hince Pdf

Imagine being alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of rock, touring the world and being there as they perform at some of the best and biggest music venues in the world. Peter Hince didn't have to imagine: for more than a decade, he lived a life that other people can only dream of as he worked with Queen as head of their road crew. In 1973, Queen was the support act for Mott the Hoople, for whom Peter was a roadie. Back then, Queen had to content themselves with being second on the bill and the world had not yet woken up to the flamboyant talent of Freddie Mercury. Peter started working full time for Queen just as they were making A Night at the Opera, the album which catapulted them to international stardom. In this intimate and affectionate book, Peter recalls the highlights of his years with the band. He was with Freddie when he composed 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'; he was responsible for making sure that Freddie's stage performances went without a hitch - and was often there to witness his famed tantrums! He was also party to the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll which are invariably part of life on the road with a rock band.

Author : Matt Richards,Mark Langthorne
Publisher : Weldon Owen
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681884097

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Somebody to Love by Matt Richards,Mark Langthorne Pdf

For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury's closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Somebody to Love is an authoritative biography of the great man. Here are previously unknown and startling facts about the singer and his life, moving detail on his lifelong search for love and personal fulfilment, and of course his tragic contraction of a then killer disease in the mid-1980s. Woven throughout Freddie's life is the shocking story of how the HIV virus came to hold the world in its grip, was cruelly labelled 'The Gay Plague' and the unwitting few who indirectly infected thousands of men, women and children - Freddie Mercury himself being one of the most famous. The death of this vibrant and spectacularly talented rock star, shook the world of medicine as well as the world of music. Somebody to Love finally puts the record straight and pays detailed tribute to the man himself.

Author : Thor Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1645849481

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Freddie Mercury in New York Don't Stop Us Now! by Thor Arnold Pdf

The years 1980 until 1993, a time we call the New York days, are the final unknown piece of the jigsaw puzzle that was Freddie Mercury's life. (Rock superstar and always dynamic front man of Queen). In fact, the movie Bohemian Rhapsody basically skipped over this important time of his life, moving from 1980 to 1984 in maybe fifteen to twenty seconds. My close friends Lee Nolan, Joe Scardilli, and John Murphy were eager to meet Freddie when he returned in 1981 after I had first met him in 1980. Freddie and his twenty-four-hour attendant and loyal friend, Peter Freestone, liked our group and wanted very much to be a part of it. At that time, many of New York City's residents and day-trippers from Long Island and New Jersey knew Queen's music but could not identify the band members. Freddie felt free and absolutely cherished this newly found and so-unavailable-in-Europe nonrecognition. He had recently grown a mustache, cut his hair short, wore jeans and tee shirts, and blended in perfectly with the gay culture in New York-we mostly all looked alike! Freddie loved being just "one of the boys." Unfortunately, John and Joe have passed on. Lee and I, however, continued the relationship beyond 1986 when we were invited several times to Freddie's beloved Garden Lodge in the heart of London. Lee was the constant photographer and has preserved a great many of these photos, which have never been seen prior to our book. One of the last things that Freddie repeated to Lee on our last visit, June 1991, was to "make these photos work for you, darling!" You will see wonderful photos of Freddie, off the stage and participating in the real world. You will see fun and excitement in his face at every turn of the page. Enjoy! Thor Arnold and Lee Nolan

Author : Richard Gray,Sean O'Hagan
Publisher : Carlton Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1787392589

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Freddie Mercury - the Great Pretender by Richard Gray,Sean O'Hagan Pdf

This fully authorized, visually stunning tribute to the incomparable Freddie Mercury gives fans unprecedented access to one of the world's greatest performers. Foreword by Rami Malek, Oscar-winning star ofBohemian Rhapsody Widely known as an electric showman with no equal, Freddie Mercury's death in 1991 left the world mourning. This colorful, official volume, filled with rare images and insightful text, painstakingly recounts all aspects of Mercury's colorful, fascinating life. It follows his childhood in Zanzibar, his fame as Queen's lead singer, his solo career, and beyond. The photographs come from the private collections of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bulsara, band mate Brian May, and the many notable contemporary photographers who shot Mercury.

Author : Mark Blake
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781845136598

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Is This the Real Life? by Mark Blake Pdf

Queen are unique among the great rock bands. It is nearly twenty years since frontman Freddie Mercury’s death brought the band to an end – yet their fanbase remains massive. They appeal equally to men and women. Their fans are just as likely to be teenagers too young to have been born when the band were still touring and making records (thanks not least to the huge success of the musical We Will Rock You). And their musical history is one of constant reinvention – from heavy metal and prog rock to disco pop, stadium anthems and even jazz influences. Now, Mark Blake, the experienced Mojo journalist who wrote Aurum’s bestselling book on Pink Floyd, has written the definitive history. Having already interviewed the surviving band members over the years, he has now tracked down dozens and dozens of new interviewees, from Queen’s first long-forgotten bass players to Freddie Mercury’s schoolmates in Isleworth, Middlesex, to trace Queen’s long career from their very first gawky performances in St Helens through their sensational stage-stealing appearance on Live Aid to the band’s collaboration with Paul Rodgers at the beginning of the century. Full of fascinating new revelations – especially about the improbable transformation of a shy Asian schoolboy called Bulsara into the outrageous-living hedonist that was Freddie Mercury - this is a book every Queen fan will want to have.

Author : Lesley-Ann Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451663952

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Mercury by Lesley-Ann Jones Pdf

The lead vocalist for the iconic rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury's unmatched skills as a songwriter and his flamboyant showmanship made him a superstar and Queen a household name. The author, a rock journalist, conducted more than a hundred interviews with key figures in Mercury's life, to offer this account of one man's legendary life in the spotlight and behind the scenes.

Author : Mark Blake
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781845137489

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Pigs Might Fly by Mark Blake Pdf

Interest in Pink Floyd remains as intense as ever even 40 years after the release of Dark Side of the Moon, with lavish box-sets collecting demos and out-takes, and Roger Waters’ world tours of The Wall playing to packed stadiums. Now, Mark Blake’s superbly comprehensive and engrossing history of the group, rightly acclaimed as the definitive book on the band, has been fully revised and extended with new interviews to bring the story up to date with the recent appearances of David Gilmour and Nick Mason with Roger Waters at a London date on his The Wall tour.