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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
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| Queen
Year: 1976
Author: George Tremlett
Publisher: Futura
ISBN: 860074129
Price: £0.50
Details: 142 pages, 16 pages b&w photos
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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
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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
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Queen's Greatest Pix
Year: 1981
Author: Jacques Lowe
Publisher: Quartet
ISBN: 07043333899
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Details: 96 pages, colour photos
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Gluttons For Punishment - The South America Tours 1981
Year: 1982
Author: Peter Lubin
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Details: 80 pages with photos
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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
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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
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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
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| Queen - The New Visual Documentary
Year: 1991
Author: Ken Dean
Publisher: Omnibus
ISBN: 0711928282
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Details: 128 pages
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Queen Unseen
Year: 1992
Author: Peter K. Hogan
Publisher: UFO Books
ISBN: 1873884117
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Details: 48 pages, rare photos
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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.
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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.
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| These Are The Days Of Our Lives
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.
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| Queen: Tear-Out Photo Book
Year: 1993
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Publisher: Oliver Books
ISBN: 1 870049 48 9
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Details: 40 Pages
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| The Complete Guide To The Music Of Queen
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.
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| Queen
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.
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| Rock Lives: The Ultimate Story: Freddie Mercury & Queen
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.
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| Queen - The Full Picture
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.
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| Queen - The Early Years
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.
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| Queen Live - A Concert Documentary
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.
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| Queen - Made In Heaven - The Lyrics
Year: 1995
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Publisher: International Music Publications Limited
ISBN: 1-85909-331-0
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Details: Lyric book including photos of Freddie's hand written lyrics to A Winter's Tale and Mother Love
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| Mick Rock - A Photographic Record - 1969-1982
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
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| Queen - The Secret Revealed
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)
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| The Novel of Queen - The Eye
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.
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| Innuendoes - Queen and Freddie Mercury
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"...
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| The Ultimate Queen
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.
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| Queen: The Definitive Biography
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.
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| God Save My Queen: A Tribute
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.
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| Complete Works
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.
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| Classic Queen
Year: 2007
Author: Mick Rock
Publisher: Sterling (October 1st 2007)
ISBN: 1402751923
Price: $24.95
Details: 192 pages; Quirky melodies, flamboyant style, and unforgettable vocal harmonies made Queen one of the most iconic bands of all time. This series of photographs documents the spectacularly productive artistic relationship between Mick Rock and Queen during the 1970’s. Hailed as “the man who shot the ‘70s,” Mick launched his career chronicling the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust, and moved on to photograph Lou Reed, the Sex Pistols, and Queen. Through more than 250 images from his vast archive, follow Mick from Queen’s watershed gig in London, through to the legendary free concert in Hyde Park. Fascinating anecdotes on his time with the group provide a comprehensive portrait of one of the world’s great bands at a pivotal time in their career.
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| Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of Queen''
Year: 2010
Author: Mark Blake
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd (October 25th 2010)
ISBN: 9781845135973
Price: £10.89
Details: 384 pages; Despite the death of their exuberant frontman Freddie Mercury in 1991, Queen remain one of the most popular bands on the planet, with 300 million global album sales and a musical stage show that has been seen in nearly 20 cities around the world. Yet the full story of their extraordinary success has never been told, until now. Freddie Mercury begun his life as Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar, before being schooled in India and arriving in West London as a shy teenager obsessed with art and pop music. By 1970 he had talked his way into forming a rock band with a dentistry student and part-time drummer named Roger Taylor and a would-be physicist and aspiring guitar hero named Brian May. When Farrokh Bulsara changed his name to Freddie Mercury, Queen was born. Derided by critics, but adored by fans, the band’s single-mindedness and sheer ambition paid off, and in 1975, Queen’s six-minute operatic single ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ became a Number 1 hit, changing their lives forever. From then on, Queen’s story was one of constant musical and stylistic re-invention, as the progressive rock of the early ‘70s mutated into stadium anthems, romantic ballads and pure pop, with a side order of jazz, gospel and heavy metal. Queen performed their pyrotechnic shows in vast arenas where their charismatic lead singer, dressed in leotard, black leather or regal crown and ermine, at last found a stage large enough for his vaudevillian performance. Then, in 1985, when their career seemed to have peaked, Queen’s incredible performance at Live Aid stole the show and reminded a global television audience of why they were one of the greatest live acts of all time. Mercury’s untimely death from AIDS robbed Queen of their lead singer, while forcing its surviving band members to find new ways to keep their music alive. Since then, Queen’s phenomenal sales have continued, turning them into one of the world’s biggest selling acts (second only to the Beatles), their stage-show We Will Rock You has broken box-office records, while Brian May and Roger Taylor recently resurrected the Queen brand for a new studio album and several tours with former Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers. On the eve of Queen’s 40th anniversary, Mojo and Q journalist Mark Blake has drawn on his own earlier interviews with the band, and conducted almost 100 brand new interviews with record producers, ex-band members, personal assistants and schoolfriends, including many of Freddie Mercury’s earliest associates in England, to produce a fascinating and complete account of the band’s rise from suburbia to worldwide superstardom. Whether you’re a fan of the Queen of ‘Seven Seas Of Rhye’ or prefer ‘Radio Ga Ga’, Is This The Real Life?: The Untold Story Of Queen tells you for the first time how they became champions of the world.
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