Queen - An Official Biography Plus Their Recent U.S. Royal Tour

Year: 1976

Author: Larry Pryce

Publisher: Star Books

ISBN: 0352397462

Price: £0.50

Details: 124 pages, 8 pages b&w photos

Year: 1976

Author: George Tremlett

Publisher: Futura

ISBN: 860074129

Price: £0.50

Details: 142 pages, 16 pages b&w photos

Queen - The First Ten Years

Year: 1981

Author: Mike West

Publisher: Babylon Books

ISBN: 0907188079

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Details: 112 pages, colour and b&w photos

Queen - An Illustrated Biography

Year: 1981

Author: Judith Davis

Publisher: Proteus Publishing Limited

ISBN: 0906071917

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Details: 96 pages, colour and b&w photos

Queen's Greatest Pix

Year: 1981

Author: Jacques Lowe

Publisher: Quartet

ISBN: 07043333899

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Details: 96 pages, colour photos

Gluttons For Punishment - The South America Tours 1981

Year: 1982

Author: Peter Lubin

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Details: 80 pages with photos

Queen - The First Twelve Years

Year: 1984

Author: Mike West

Publisher: Babylon Books

ISBN: 0907188222

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Details: 88 pages, colour and b&w photos

Year: 1986

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Publisher: International Music Publications Limited

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Queen - A Visual Documentary

Year: 1986

Author: Ken Dean

Publisher: Omnibus Press

ISBN: 071108575

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Queen - A Magic Tour

Year: 1987

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Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson

ISBN: 0283994886

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Details: 96 pages, lots of b&w and colour photos

Queen's Greatest Pix II

Year: 1991

Author: Designed by Richard Gray

Publisher: IMP

ISBN: 0863598072

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Details: 96 pages, colour and b&w photos

Year: 1991

Author: Ken Dean

Publisher: Omnibus

ISBN: 0711928282

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Details: 128 pages

Year: 1991

Author: Ross Clarke

Publisher: Kingsfleet Publications

ISBN: 1-874130-01-9

Price: £8.95

Details: 110 pages, mainly pics

Queen Unseen

Year: 1992

Author: Peter K. Hogan

Publisher: UFO Books

ISBN: 1873884117

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Details: 48 pages, rare photos

The Show Must Go On

Year: 1992

Author: Rick Sky

Publisher: Fontana

ISBN: 0-00-637843-9

Price: £4.99

Details: 179 pages; This revealing biography of Freddie Mercury, one of rock music's greatest showmen, tells of the two women in his life and his desire to conceal his bisexuality in spite of having AIDS for the last five years of his life.

Queen - As It Began

Year: 1992

Author: Jacky Gunn and Jim Jenkins

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson / IMP

ISBN: 0330332597

Price: £14.99

Details: 281 pages; The tragic death of Freddie Mercury heralded the end of one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time. Queen were undisputed rock royalty, the group that sprang from the glam rock era of the early 1970s to outlast all their glittering contemporaries. In the process they rewrote all the rules in the music business, from the six-minute mini-opera Bohemian Rhapsody to playing stadiums across South America. This book, based on exclusive interviews with band members, their families and friends, is the chronicle of Queen's history. Frank and fearless, it is packed with personal and revelatory details and is illustrated with photographs never before published. It covers everything from the humble beginnings when Brian May made his own guitar, to the heady days of international fame and the final sad months when Freddie Mercury knew he was fighting a battle against AIDS that he could not win.

Queen - In Their Own Words

Year: 1992

Author: Mick St Michael

Publisher: Omnibus

ISBN: 0711930147

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Details: 112 pages; A compilation of quotations by the rock group Queen. They range from their early days to the Aids related death of singer Freddie Mercury in 1991.

This Is The Real Life

Year: 1992

Author: David Evans & David Minns

Publisher: Britannia Press

ISBN: 0-9519937-1-2

Price: £8.99

Details: 158 pages, plus 8 pages of colour & b&w photos

Year: 1992

Author:

Publisher: Revolutionary Comics

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Details: Issue 48

Year: 1992

Author: Stephen Ryder

Publisher: Kingsfleet

ISBN: 1874130124

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Details: 238 pages; The story of the rock and roll band Queen from college days to the death of Freddie Mercury.

Year: 1992

Author:

Publisher: Revolutionary Comics

ISBN: 1874130124

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Details: Issue #9 (December)

Year: 1993

Author:

Publisher: Oliver Books

ISBN: 1 870049 48 9

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Details: 40 Pages

Year: 1994

Author: Peter K Hogan

Publisher: Omnibus Press (Mar 1994)

ISBN: 0711935262

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Details: 136 pages; A consumers' guide to the music of Queen which is an album by album run down of everything they recorded during their 20 year career. It includes: details of how the group was formed in 1971; information on when and where their music was written and recorded; a critical consumers' guide to Queen's back catalogue; a comprehensive Queen biography; and a complete discography.

Year: 1994

Author: Jim Hutton with Tim Wapshott

Publisher: Bloomsbury

ISBN: 0-7475-1922-6

Price: £14.99

Details: 211 pages; The relationship between Freddie Mercury and Jim Hutton evolved over several months in 1984 and 1985. Even when they first slept together Button had no idea who Mercury was, and when the star told him his name it meant nothing to him. Hutton worked as a barber at the Savoy Hotel and retained his job and his lodgings in Sutton, Surrey, for two years after moving in with Mercury, and then worked as his gardener. He was never fully assimilated into Mercury's jet-setting lifestyle, nor did he want to be, but from 1985 until Mercury's death in 1991 he was closer to him than anyone and knew all Mercury's closest friends: the other members of Queen, Elton John, David Bowie, Phil Collins to name a few. Ever present at the countless Sunday lunch gatherings and opulent parties, Hutton has a wealth of anecdotes about as well as a deep understanding of, Mercury's life. He also nursed Mercury through his terminal illness, often held him throughout the night in his final weeks, and was with him as he died. No one can tell the story of the last few years of Mercury's private life - the ecstasies and the agonies - more accurately or honestly than Jim Hutton.

Year: 1994

Author: Laura Jackson

Publisher: Smith Gryphon

ISBN: 1-85685-062-5

Price: £15.99

Details: 215 pages; Following the tragic death of Freddie Mercury and Queen's decision to disband, their virtuoso lead guitarist, Brian May, was soon on his way to a spectacular solo career, sealed by a major world tour in 1993. He is now completing his new album and planning his next world tour for 1995, continuing his reign as one of the finest guitarists in the world. The author has had exclusive access to many of Brian May's close friends, colleagues and fellow musicians. In this book, she tells his story: the professional struggles and musical achievements; and his personal life, including his five years of hell from 1987, which saw the break-up of his marriage; and the profound emotional effects of Freddie Mercury's illness and death from AIDS. This book is an account of one of the world's greatest ever rock bands and its lead guitarist, Brian May. With details and exclusive interviews with many of the world's leading rock musicians, it tells the story of how they achieved and enjoyed rock stardom, with its ups and downs. It is published as The Brian May Band is achieving new heights of international acclaim. Laura Jackson is the author of "Golden Stone", an investigation of the life and murder of Rolling Stone Brian Jones.

Year: 1994

Author: Mick St.Michael

Publisher: Orion mass market paperback (3 Mar 1994)

ISBN: 1857975898

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Details: 120 pages; This book pays tribute to the band in words and pictures from Smile, an early, unknown rock band formed by Brian May and Roger Taylor, to the all-star tribute staged at Wembley Stadium to mark the death of the lead singer Freddie Mercury. The hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" shot them to superstardom and made video history by launching the rock video concept. Their career went from strength to strength drawing crowds to their concerts and attracting massive record sales. Their performance at "Live Aid" was critically acclaimed and a swansong for Freddie Mercury who came off the road for good in 1986. His death shocked the whole world and an all-star tribute attracted stars ranging from Elton John and Guns N' Roses to Def Leppard and Liza Minnelli.

Year: 1995

Author: Neville Marten and Jeffrey Hudson

Publisher: Faber and Faber (30 Nov 1995)

ISBN: 1860740405

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Details: 125 pages; Rock Lives is a major new series which takes a fully illustrated in-depth look at major artists & bands which have contributed significantly to the development of r ock music. This title focuses on Freddie Mercury and Queen.

Year: 1995

Author: Denis O'Regan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (23 Nov 1995)

ISBN: 0747524750

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Details: 192 pages; This is a photographic record of Queen's career. The book includes rare photographs going back to the early 1970s.

Year: 1995

Author: Mark Hodkinson

Publisher: Omnibus Press (16 Oct 1995)

ISBN: 9-781844-490127

Price: £12.95

Details: 207 pages; Most groups struggle for years in relative poverty until success beckons. Queen were different. This book reveals how all four members of the group could have gone on to become successful in other fields. Guitarist Brian May and bassist John Deacon as physicists; drummer Roger Taylor, who came from a well-to-do family, as a dentist; and Freddie Mercury as a clothes designer.

Year: 1995

Author: Greg Brooks

Publisher: Omnibus Press (24 Jul 1995)

ISBN: 0711948143

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Details: 176 pages; A complete run down of every Queen concert performed anywhere in the world. This book starts with their earliest concerts in 1970 and takes the Queen story right up to the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium in 1993.

Year: 1995

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Publisher: International Music Publications Limited

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Year: 1995

Author: Mick Rock

Publisher: Century 22 Publisher

ISBN: 0 90793 811 6

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Details: lots of b/w and color photos

Year: 1996

Author: Laura Jackson

Publisher: Smith Gryphon

ISBN: 1-85685-111-7

Price: £16.99

Details: 212 pages; In 1996, Freddie Mercury would have been 50 years old. November 1996 also marks the fifth anniversary of his untimely and tragic death. Written by the author of "Queen & I: The Brian May Story", this biography contains previously unseen photographs of Freddie at play, supplied especially for this book by some of his closest friends. Intimate stories by those who knew him give a look at his life and times, both with and without Queen. There are exclusive interviews with Sir Tim Rice, with whom Freddie co-wrote tracks for "Barcelona", with Malcolm McLaren, Peter Stringfellow, Michael Buerk, Simon Bates, Fish, Gary Glitter, Paul Young, Zandra Rhodes, Joe Elliott, Bruce Dickinson and David Essex. Laura Jackson is the author of "Golden Stone", an investigation of the life and murder of Rolling Stone Brian Jones.

Year: 1997

Author: Melina Richmond

Publisher: Magic Publications Ltd. (Oct 1997)

ISBN: 0953122506

Price: £12.99

Details: 174 pages; Melina Richmond's life, from childhood through to adulthood, was something of a tragedy played out before uncaring parents, cruel lovers and a husband who tormented her both physically and mentally. But throughout this life she claims to have heard the comforting voice of a long-dead soldier in her head.

The plot thickens when Freddie Mercury, superstar of super-band Queen, died after suffering from AIDS in 1991 and almost immediately contacted Richmond from beyond the grave. And what's more, she believes the voice she hears when she talks to Freddie is the voice of the soldier she has heard in her head since childhood and that the bond they formed in a past life has followed them into this one.

In It's a Kind of Magic, Richmond attempts to prove that Freddie is with her, tracking down his old acquaintances and adversaries to test their reactions to the voice in her head and drawing on familiar Queen lyrics and other writings by and about Freddie Mercury to establish that, even before his death, he was in some way trying to make spiritual contact with her.

It is left to the individual reader to decide whether It's a Kind of Magic is simply the bizarre blatherings of a woman disturbed by her own upbringing and experiences, or whether Richmond is indeed some kind of guardian angel appointed by one of the most peculiarly charismatic and enigmatic icons of the 20th Century to tell his story. Either way, Melinda Richardson tells an outrageously intriguing, if rather rambling, tale that Freddie Mercury afficianados will clamour to read. --Susan Harrison (Amazon.co.uk)

Year: 1997

Author: Paul Darrow

Publisher: Boxtree

ISBN: 0-7522-0371-1

Price: £6.99

Details: A novel "inspired by the computer action game Queen - The Eye". The author is best known for his role as Avon in the early 1980s BBC sci-fi series Blakes Seven.

Year: 1998

Author: S.V. Livingstone

Publisher: HomeLand Productions (1 Oct 1998)

ISBN: 0953118975

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Details: 396 pages; Queen's History etc. Music, concert dates, personal stuff, life history and obviously that Fairy Tale is included in there as well - but beware, because as Freddie says, if you try to figure it all out "You Might Get Fried"...

Year: 1998

Author: Peter Freestone

Publisher: Tusitala

ISBN: 0 9533341 0 4

Price: £20

Details: 259 pages, plus an insert of 32 pages of photos

Year: 1998

Author: Peter Lewry & Nigel Goodall

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd. (UK) (Oct 1999)

ISBN: 0684868377

Price: £17.99

Details: 256 pages; An encyclopaedia about the English rock band, "Queen", this book contains over 3000 entries in an easy to use format. Band biographies and a chronology of important dates in the career of "Queen" are included; managers, promoters and tour personnel are discussed; there are details of their concert tours, radio and TV appearances; and a list of every "Queen" record ever made is included, to make this a complete discography.

Year: 1999

Author: Jef & Camille Simonet

Publisher: Auto-Edite

ISBN: 2913092020

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Details: 132 pages; This comic book is the whole story of the career of Queen, from the birth of each member to the 'Another World' tour, based on 'Queen... As It Began '(the official biography by Jacky Smith and Jim Jenkins).

Year: 1999

Author: Laura Jackson

Publisher: Piatkus Books (7 Oct 1999)

ISBN: 07499 20297

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Details: 320 pages; Laura Jackson has interviewed members of Queen, many of their close friends, and several of the world's leading rock musicians to turn the spotlight on the private lives, professional struggles and personal triumphs of the band.

Year: 2003

Author: Daniel Nester

Publisher: Soft Skull Press, U.S. (1 Jul 2003)

ISBN: 1887128271

Price: £8.99

Details: 140 pages; Daniel Nester is clearly not alone in his adoration of this seminal band. And yet this lyrical collection of essays - one for every song recorded by the band in chronological order, from the 1973 debut through to Hot Space, their 1982 flopped "disco" album - is truly a unique creation. Part memoir, part prose poetry, part rock book, Nester draws connections between everyone from Liza Minelli and Leni Riefenstahl to Billie Jean King, touching on Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury's shared kiss in 1981 and ranting about Courtney Love's giggling over Kurt Cobain's mention of Freddie Mercury in his suicide note. Together, the entries for each song add up to a love letter to a band and to a time when all that mattered was a record player and a pair of headphones.

Year: 2006

Author: Georg Purvis

Publisher: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd (26 Nov 2006)

ISBN: 190528733X

Price: £17.99

Details: 424 pages; Mixing and clashing an outrageously eclectic set of influences—the close harmonies of the Beatles, the guitar pyrotechnics of Jimi Hendrix, the heavy sound of Led Zeppelin, and the glamour of David Bowie—Queen found a winning formula by channeling this strange cocktail through its charismatic frontman, Freddie Mercury. More than a decade after Mercury's death, Queen's fan base continues to grow. This meticulous, session-by-session, album-by-album, tour-by-tour chronicle of the band is the book that Queen fans have been waiting for.