{"id":18373,"date":"2011-09-05T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T00:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=18373"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:50:59","slug":"coming-soon-freddie-mercury-the-definitive-biography-by-lesley-ann-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/coming-soon-freddie-mercury-the-definitive-biography-by-lesley-ann-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon: Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography by Lesley-Ann Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is Freddie Mercury’s birthday today <\/strong><\/p>\n

(check out Google’s homage here now – it’ll be gone tomorrow<\/a>) <\/strong><\/p>\n

Happy birthday Freddie!<\/strong><\/p>\n

———<\/p>\n

Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography<\/h2>\n

The definitive biography of one of music’s greatest legends.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the definitive biography of Freddie Mercury. Written by an award-winning rock journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones toured widely with Queen forming lasting friendships with the band. Now, having secured access to the remaining band members and those who were closest to Freddie, from childhood to death, Lesley-Ann has written the most in depth account of one of music’s best loved and most complex figures.<\/p>\n

Meticulously researched, sympathetic, unsensational, the book – like the forthcoming film – will focus on the period in the 1980s when Queen began to fragment, before their Live Aid performance put them back in the frame.<\/p>\n

In her journey to understand the man behind the legend, Lesley-Ann Jones has travelled from London to Zanzibar to India. Packed with exclusive interviews and told with the invaluable perspective that the twenty years since Mercury’s death presents, Freddie Mercury<\/em> is the most up to date portrait of a legendary man.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lesley-Ann Jones is an award winning journalist and author. She toured with Queen and had unrivalled access to the band.<\/p>\n

Lesley-Ann Jones is producing and writing a BBC radio documentary about Freddie Mercury. She is also part of a consortium putting together a TV documentary for worldwide distribution.<\/p>\n

A mother of three, she lives in London.<\/p>\n

People waste a lot of money with lawyers when a short note or comment would have sufficed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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