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About Lesley-Ann Jones
See more books from this AuthorThe celebrity bio of a one-of-a-kind rock 'n' roll impresario, equal parts fawning and dreary.
Jun 19 2012 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...As lead singer of the band Queen, Freddy Mercury was a pure showman, fusing opera, theater, pop, and rock. Jones presents a candid life story of this rare phenomenon and chronicles Queenâs ascendance
Jun 15 2012 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...There he developed his âflamboyant and melodramaticâ stage persona to counter the shy and insecure self later epitomized in his recording of âThe Great Pretender.â Though he âpreferred [his] sex without any involvement,â his relations with women and sexual exploits with men âembroil...
Jun 18 2012 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...Having read a number of Queen biographies over the years, I am pretty familiar with the basics of Fr...
Jul 16 2012 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...For anyone interested in a balanced, yet nuanced biography of the life of one of the greatest rock singers ever, Mercury is unquestionably the one.
Jul 16 2012 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...Having read a number of Queen biographies over the years, I am pretty familiar with the basics of Freddie Mercury’s life (1946-1991).
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Jun 01 2012 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...If Jones fails to analyze Queen's ascension in the rock canon — in her defense, this isn't a book about the British group, and that includes Mercury's otherworldly vocals — she delves deep into the parallels of Queen's finding its confidence as Mercury found his.
Jun 30 2012 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...Valentin, who often lived with the pair once Mercury moved Hutton into his London home, is dismissive of the barber.
Oct 08 2011 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...But it does make an attempt to avoid silky sentiment (perhaps to a fault, given that Rodgers and Hammerstein were uniquely capable when it came to the guileless musical imparting of truths and life-lessons) and to shine a light on the lesser known shows and numbers in that formidable catalog, inc...
Jan 21 2013 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph..."Freud's Last Session," the hit off-Broadway play now in commercial residence at the Mercury Theatre, replete with the original New York cast, imagines that a dying and exiled Sigmund Freud invites a young man to his study in London, on the very eve of World War II.
Mar 27 2012 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...Freddie Mercury is the third rock bio I’ve read in 2011, and by far the weakest.
Oct 30 2011 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...While she alludes to Mercury’s sexual excesses, she avoids going into graphic detail, which makes this biography a good choice for a fan wanting to know his story without all of the seedy particulars.
Sep 07 2012 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...There’s also your usual assortment of evil angels, fallen angels, and HR drone angels to round things out, as well as a send up of the Harry Potter series called Charlie Nyx that figures largely as agents of the Apocalypse in both books.
Dec 16 2011 | Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...Dolan’s Springsteen is a bit harder to parse simply because it’s now part of a large collection of book-length considerations of Springsteen, his vision, and aspects of promise (this is the second Springsteen book with promise either in the title or sub-)(for the record, the multiplicity of title...
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| Read Full Review of Mercury: An Intimate Biograph...Upon completion of Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury there were several mixed feelings about structure and content.
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