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  title info:
    title: Mercury
    sub title: an intimate biography of Freddie Mercury
  title info:
    title: Intimate biography of Freddie Mercury
  title info:
    title: Biography of Freddie Mercury
  title info:
    title: Freddie Mercury
  name:
    name part: Jones, Lesley-Ann.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2012
    edition: 1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 350 pages, 32 unnumbered pages plates : illustrations (chielfy color) ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This rock biography is a revealing, intimate look at the man who would be Queen. 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. But despite his worldwide fame, few people ever really glimpsed the man behind the glittering facade. Now, more than twenty years after his death, those closest to Mercury are finally opening up about this pivotal figure in rock 'n roll. Based on more than a hundred interviews with key figures in his life, the author, a rock journalist offers the definitive account of one man's legendary life in the spotlight and behind the scenes. She gained unprecedented access to Mercury's tribe, and she details Queen's slow but steady rise to fame and Mercury's descent into dangerous, pleasure-seeking excesses. This was, after all, a man who once declared, "Darling, I'm doing everything with everyone." In her journey to understand Mercury, she traveled to London, Zanzibar, and India, talking with everyone from Mercury's closest friends to the sound engineer at Band Aid (who was responsible for making Queen even louder than the other bands) to second cousins halfway around the world. In the process, an intimate and complicated portrait emerges. It offers an unvarnished look at the extreme highs and lows of life in the fast lane. At the heart of this story is a man and the music he loved.
  note: Lesley-Ann Jones.
  note: Originally published: Great Britain : Hodder & Stoughton, 2011.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-338), discography (pages 333-335) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mercury, Freddie
  subject:
    topic: Rock musicians
    geographic: England
    genre: Biography
  classification: ML420.M389 J66 2012
  classification: 782.42166092 B
  identifier: 9781451663952 (hbk.)
  identifier: 1451663951 (hbk.)
  identifier: 9781451663976 (ebk.)
  identifier: 1451663978 (ebk.)
  identifier: 9781451663969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 145166396X (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2012017271
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120427
    record change date: 20150922104322.0
    record identifier: in00002764763
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng