Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender: A Life in Pictures
Product ID: 103845244
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 of Bohemian 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. Review: Gorgeous book - I bought this for this year's Secret Santa giveaway of the Queen Breakfast Club. That's a group of 7 of us in Nashville who get together every month or so for breakfast at a local restaurant, or dinner at one of our houses, and talk about Queen, Queen-related matters, and some matters that are not at all related to Queen. This book is not only beautiful and substantial, with lots of terrific pictures and anecdotes spanning Freddie's very interesting early childhood all through his life and career, but it helped me nail my gifting responsibility for the QBC this year. It was an awesome present that came in right at the Club's monetary limit on such gifts and is a worthy volume in any QBC member's library. A male QBC member ended up with it but any of our female members would have been equally thrilled. So for unisex gifting purposes, this is a no-brainer. In sum, this book is a fine addition to the Queen canon and I believe I speak for the entire QBC when I recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in Queen. Review: We 🫶🏼 Freddie Mercury!! - Wow, what an incredible journey it was to read this book on Freddie. I’ve always loved his music with the band Queen, but learning about his life story was emotional. This is a 143 page book with color and black and great photos. This is part of music history to have in my book collection, and I love it. It’s a hard cover book so it will last forever! Haha. Great value for the price, especially if you love Freddie & Queen.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.9 out of 5 stars 793 Reviews |
L**T
Gorgeous book
I bought this for this year's Secret Santa giveaway of the Queen Breakfast Club. That's a group of 7 of us in Nashville who get together every month or so for breakfast at a local restaurant, or dinner at one of our houses, and talk about Queen, Queen-related matters, and some matters that are not at all related to Queen. This book is not only beautiful and substantial, with lots of terrific pictures and anecdotes spanning Freddie's very interesting early childhood all through his life and career, but it helped me nail my gifting responsibility for the QBC this year. It was an awesome present that came in right at the Club's monetary limit on such gifts and is a worthy volume in any QBC member's library. A male QBC member ended up with it but any of our female members would have been equally thrilled. So for unisex gifting purposes, this is a no-brainer. In sum, this book is a fine addition to the Queen canon and I believe I speak for the entire QBC when I recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in Queen.
H**E
We 🫶🏼 Freddie Mercury!!
Wow, what an incredible journey it was to read this book on Freddie. I’ve always loved his music with the band Queen, but learning about his life story was emotional. This is a 143 page book with color and black and great photos. This is part of music history to have in my book collection, and I love it. It’s a hard cover book so it will last forever! Haha. Great value for the price, especially if you love Freddie & Queen.
T**F
FREDDIE!
I LOVE THIS BOOK! ANYONE WHO LOVES FREDDIE WILL LOVE THIS BEAUTIFUL BOOK! It is not just pictures there is a lot of info in here to read in the 1st part of the book. Yes some is pretty much in anything that is made about Freddie BUT there have been quite a few little things & fun facts that I didn't know. So I enjoyed that part of the book. Then it turns into all pictures w/ side notes of the info on the picture & that's pretty much it. BUT as I said if you love Freddie (& I am kinda obsessed) you will treasure this & I think it is actually at a really great price I would most defiantly have paid more! So you are getting a fantastic addition to your collection or if you are thinking of a gift for a your Freddie Freak Friend....This Is For You!
J**.
and it really is amazing. this is the perfect gift for the freddie ...
this book is practically a scrapbook/photo album of freddie mercury. my husband is a huge fan, and this was such a surprise for him! Photos he'd never seen before, stories he hadn't heard, i didn't know a lot about him before, so i had to read this too, and it really is amazing. this is the perfect gift for the freddie mercury lover in your life!
M**A
So Many Wonderful Pictures
Wonderful pictures this book was worth the purchase price great book to add to my Freddie Mercury collection
T**K
Fantastic Book
Bought this book as a gift for a friend who is a fan of Freddie, she went nuts. great value. Very nice.
K**N
I love this book
I love this book!!! Great editorials but the pictures....oh my gosh....they are absolutely amazing!!! Beautiful glossy black-and-whites and color pics. So well with the buy!! I even keep it in the mailing wrapper to keep it pristine—that’s how great this book is!!!
A**R
A Must to have for a Freddie's Fan
Even though there are lots of Freddie's photos and images you could find on the Internet, the photos collected in this book are just stunningly beautiful to look at. Freddie's charisma in full swing, not to mention some background stories of the events go with the pictures. I am so glad that I have this book at hand so that I could look at it/Freddie anytime I want. He is so missed.
G**O
Fabuloso
Lo compre meramente de adorno y el contenido es buenísimo y de muy buena calidad!!
S**A
Bel libro di foto
Le foto sono molto belle e il libro fatto bene Belle anche le didascalie con frasi di Freddie , degli altri membri della band e altre persone che hanno avuto la fortuna di conoscerlo
L**S
Perfeito
Produto lindo demais. Talvez o livro mais lindo do Freddie S2
R**Y
Love It
Love it so so much, Big Fan of Queen and of course Freddie Mercury
W**N
Many pictures, not much text
The book is dominated by pictures, the text is rather short. I would have preferred an author who is more open to the style of music he is writing about. The author insisted several times that he avoided Queen and disliked their style throughout his musical life. Apparently the only thing which convinced him of Queen and Freddy Mercury was the video to "I want to break free".
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