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BOOKS & SOURCES

Sources of my website:

These are the sources I have mainly used for this website (this website is based on my A-Levels school work for English classes in 2006); I am aware these are not all, but listed are the books I fully have read – other books/sources and info I have read in excerpts and they are not listed here, but I would like to read them completely in future time

Books, magazines (also in my collection):

- “Queen – As It Began” (Official Queen Biography) by Jacky Gunn and Jim Jenkins in cooperation with Queen

- “Queen – The Early Years” by Mark Hodkinson

- “Freddie Mercury” by Peter Freestone with David Evans

- “Freddie Mercury Solo Collection” (Box Set with book, CDs, DVDs)

- “Queen Live – A concert documentary” by Greg Brooks, foreword by Brian May

- “Queen – The Definitive Biography” by Laura Jackson

- “Classic Queen” – Mick Rock (photo book with Mick Rock’s stories/notes)

- “Queen on Camera, off guard” by Mark Hayward with Andy Davis

- “Queen L’Opéra Rock” by Stan Cuesta (in French)

- “The Real Story of Freddie Mercury” by Mariam Ahundova (originally in Russian and translation in English) – here you can read it on ENGLISH: http://allofqueen.on.ufanet.ru/book.html; here you can download it on RUSSIAN language (download rtf.zip file): http://lib.aldebaran.ru/author/ahundova_m/ahundova_m_istoriya_freddi_merkyuri

- “Queen” by Benjamin Cuq (Les Guides MusicBook) – in French

- Mojo Queen Special

- Various Queen magazine specials

Film:

- “The Untold Story” by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher

- Various documentaries on Queen by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher (“Magic Years”, “Champions Of The World”…)

- Various video clips and TV/ interview excerpts on Youtube

- Various Queen documentaries

Other sources:

- Various interviews and articles from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and today (from around the web and my collection of articles and clippings I purchased on Ebay)

- Lyrics to songs in the booklets to Queen CDs

- Various Internet features (for example: Rosemary Pearson article, Mary Austin article etc. …)

- Queen fan websites (see links), Queen official websites, blogs etc

Freddie Mercury & Queen BOOKS

A selection of what is known to me…:

- “Freddie Mercury: His Life In His Own Words“ (Freddie Mercury quotes)

- “Queen – The Early Years” by Mark Hodkinson (about Queen’s formative years up to Bohemian Rhapsody)

- “Queen – As It Began” (Official Queen Biography) by Jacky Gunn and Jim Jenkins in cooperation with Queen

- “Queen“ - George Tremlett‘s book from 1976 (maybe the first QUEEN biography) – read/download here:

a great list of Freddie Mercury books: http://mr-mercury.co.uk/freddie_books.htm

a list from freddie.ru: http://www.freddie.ru/e/books/

a list of Queen books: http://mr-mercury.co.uk/queen_books.htm

Queenepedia list of Queen and Queen members books: http://www.queenpedia.com/index.php?title=Bibliography

Intellectualonly-mercury’s list of books: http://intellectualonly-mercury.ru/books.html

- the Freddie Mercury book „Freddie Mercury – the story“ by late Russian critical writer Mariam Ahundova (RIP, 2012) online in ENGLISH http://allofqueen.on.ufanet.ru/book.html and in RUSSIAN: http://lib.aldebaran.ru/author/ahundova_m/ahundova_m_istoriya_freddi_merkyuri or click here:

- “Freddie Mercury“ by Peter Freestone with David Evans (memoir by Freddie’s personal assistant Peter Freestone)

- “The Freddie Mercury Story. Living On The Edge“ by David Bret

- “Freddie Mercury. This is the real life“ by David Evans and David Minns

- “Freddie Mercury. A Kind of Magic“ by Ross Clarke

- “Freddie Mercury. The Show Must Go On“ by Rick Sky (first book published after Freddie’s death)

- “Mercury And Me“ by Jim Hutton and Tim Wapshott (memoir by Freddie’s friend/lover? in the 80s and his last years - Jim Hutton)

- “Freddie Mercury. The Definitive Biography“ by Lesley-Ann Jones

- “Mercury: The King Of Queen“ by Laura Jackson

- “Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury“ by Lesley-Ann Jones (2012)

- “Is This the Real Life? The Untold Story of Queen“ by Mark Blake (2011)

- “Queen - an Official Biography plus their recent US Royal Tour“ by Larry Price (1976)

- “Queen: In their own words“ by Mick St Michael (1992)

- “The Ultimate Queen“ Peter Lewry & Nigel Goodall

- “Queen – The Definitive Biography” by Laura Jackson (1999)

- “Classic Queen” by famous rock photographer Mick Rock (a 70s Queen photo book with Mick Rock’s stories)

- “Killer Queen” by Mick Rock (limited edition, very expensive photo book)

- “Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock“ by Phil Sutcliffe (2009)

- “Queen on Camera, off guard” by Mark Hayward with Andy Davis (photo book with annotations, stories)

- “Queen Live – A concert documentary” by Greg Brooks, foreword by Brian May

- “Queen - L’Opéra Rock” by Stan Cuesta (in French) – very nice written book from the 90s