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Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury
Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury | Matt Richards, Mark Langthorne
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For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews fromFreddieMercury's closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Somebody to Loveis an authoritative biography of the great man. Here are previously unknown and startling facts about the singer and his life, moving detail on his lifelong search for love and personal fulfilment, and of course his tragic contraction of a then killer disease in the mid-1980s. Woven throughoutFreddie's life is the shocking story of how the HIV virus came to hold the world in its grip, was cruelly labelled 'The Gay Plague' and the unwitting few who indirectly infected thousands of men, women and children -FreddieMercuryhimself being one of the most famous. The death of this vibrant and spectacularly talented rock star, shook the world of medicine as well as the world of music. Somebody to Love finally puts the record straight and pays detailed tribute to the man himself."
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jenniferw88
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@Cinfhen more laughs for you!

Don't mind me, I'm just busy fangirling over here! 😂😂😂

#AddictedtoTheChase #teamvixen

Cinfhen Oh WOW! Jen responded to you 🧡💜❤️🙌🏻🥳🥳🥳 5y
jenniferw88 @Cinfhen i know! There's one very happy (& excited) Litten in the UK with a massive smile on her face right now! 5y
Cinfhen Yay!!! Sooooo happy for you 😘 keep smiling all day 😁 5y
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jenniferw88 @Cinfhen I've just replied to the #teamvixen one with a gif of John Barrowman fangirling! Fingers crossed she understands it! 5y
Cinfhen 🤞🏽🤞🏽 5y
jenniferw88 @Cinfhen I'm sure she will - she IS a Chaser, after all! 🤣🤣🤣 It was this one: https://images.app.goo.gl/f45TQXMQ4nuQNWf28 5y
Cinfhen Hahahahaha/ hilarious 5y
Cinfhen I just watched her audition- OMG!!! She was awesome #TeamVixen 5y
jenniferw88 @Cinfhen yay! Fingers crossed she gets into the next round! 5y
Cinfhen Who else did u like?? 5y
jenniferw88 @Cinfhen just Jenny! 😂😂😂 5y
Cinfhen Duh 🤦🏼‍♀️ 5y
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jenniferw88
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@Cinfhen carrying on the Jenny/Vixen theme... 🤣🤣🤣

Cinfhen Hahahaha 😂😂😂😂you crack me up!!!!! 5y
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Lizpixie
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#MarchIntoThe70s #day30 #WeAreTheChampions I can‘t believe it‘s the last weekend of March, time flies huh. Thank you all so much for participating & enjoying some of my favourite music, it‘s been a blast. You‘re all Champions! I enjoyed this biography of Queen Freddie,it was more about him as a person rather than the singer, I especially appreciated how it wove the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic into the story. It‘s a huge part of Freddie‘s life.

Cinfhen What a super star!! Both you & Freddie 😘FABULOUS PLAYLIST XX 5y
Lizpixie @Cinfhen thank you lovely! Music & books have been the two cornerstones of my life since I can remember. It‘s awesome to be able to introduce them both to new people🙌♥️ 5y
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JennyM
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#WinterWonderland

Bear with me, this may be a stretch, but #ICanSeeTheSunInLateDecember on my hubby‘s TBR with a book about Freddie Mercury 😉 (it‘s been a long day)

TrishB 😁👍🏻 just starting a long day here! 5y
JennyM @TrishB @erzascarletbookgasm Thanks guys, you‘re too generous 😆 5y
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Lizpixie Loved this book! 5y
Cinfhen Oooohhhh!!! Want!!!! Props to hubby for excellent reading material 5y
JennyM @Cinfhen @Lizpixie he takes his love for Freddie very seriously 😆 I might have to sneak it over to my TBR 5y
JennyM @TrishB hope it was a good day 😊 5y
TrishB @JennyM it‘s 11.30pm we still have visitors. I‘m hiding in the bathroom reading Litsy... 5y
JennyM @TrishB 🤣🤣 5y
Lizpixie @JennyM @Cinfhen definitely give it a read, it‘s not just about his fame, it‘s about the AIDS epidemic & how his refusal to give up his lifestyle was how he most probably was infected. It‘s about how lonely & isolated he became at the end because he tried so hard to hide it from everyone. I cried buckets by the end. 5y
Cinfhen Did u see the movie @JennyM @Lizpixie because that was the absolute take away from the film...the loneliness and isolation 😭😭😭 5y
JennyM @Cinfhen @Lizpixie no, I‘ve not seen the movie. We couldn‘t get babysitters so hubby went on his own to watch it. He absolutely loved it. I‘m definitely stealing this now from his stack 🤫 (edited) 5y
Cinfhen If you do read it could count as #BookFeaturingAmusician 5y
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tournevis
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I miss Freddy Mercury sooooo muuuuuch!
1️⃣ Fiction. Real life sucks.
2️⃣ The Show Must Go On. (Fat Bottom Girls is pretty good too😋)
3️⃣ Which fictional character wants to kill me? Hopefully none.
4️⃣ @Avanders 👋👋👋
#bohemianrhapsody @Mandigolightly

Itchyfeetreader I love The Show Must Go On! 5y
tournevis @Itchyfeetreader It's meaningful, for sure 5y
HOTPock3tt 1) absolutely agree!! 🙌🏽 5y
tournevis @HOTPock3tt *nods emphatically* 5y
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Gina
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JoScho Look awesome! 6y
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bookish_wookish
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OMG!!!! I finally found this book after months and months of searching!! I couldnt find it anywhere!! Finally found one on ebay and the sellers feedback was 50/50 so i didnt have high hopes that i would ever get it! But it came!! It only took a week!! Im sooo excited!! Im a nerd for anything Queen or Freddie!! 😍😍

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yay!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y
APLitlife Oh wow! 6y
minkyb I love a story with a happy ending! 6y
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jenniferw88
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A day late but as David Bowie collaborated with Queen for #UnderPressure, have a book about, imo, the best singer ever! #Septembowie @Cinfhen @Marchpane

Cinfhen Can't really argue with you! ❤️Freddie 🙌🏻 7y
Marchpane An absolute legend 👏 7y
melbeautyandbooks Yes! Looking forward to the upcoming movie with Rami Malek as Freddie. 7y
TNbookworm 7y
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Lizpixie
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What a fantastic book! This is not just about the best frontman in the history of rock, it's also about how the AIDS crisis started, from a bite given to a hunter in the Congo by an infected chimp, to its slow burn across Africa before breaking out into the world. But it's also a celebration of Mercury's life, from Zanzibar to India, then the UK. He was a born star, the consummate performer, but he was also a lonely man who took a lot of risks.5⭐️

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Lizpixie
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After being stupid and going book shopping instead of resting,I'm now collapsed in bed with fatigue and this brilliant biography of Freddie Mercury.This is unique in that it doesn't just go into Freddie's history & life,it also goes into the evolution of HIV & AIDS,from its first emergence in the blood of a hunter in the Congo in 1908,to its jump into Haiti in the 60s till it makes it to the US in the early 80s,which is when Mercury was infected.

Cinfhen Sounds fascinating #stacked 7y
jenniferw88 As Freddie is one of my favourite singers, I've also #stacked it! 7y
Laura317 Take care of yourself!! Now I have the song in my head. Off to find my Queen CDs now. 7y
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bookish_wookish I need this!!! *adds to stack* 7y
scripturient Take good care of yourself. Hope you're feeling better soon. ❤️ 7y
LeahBergen I love Freddie. Rest up and feel better! 💕 7y
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bookishkai
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A little reading with my lunch before I head out to pick Little Llama up from school. Thankfully this is my last day of dreadful early arrival days; next quarter MomBoss doesn't have class till 10 on Wednesdays!

ChasingOm I love Noosa! 7y
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bookishkai
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Started poking at both of these this morning, and since I'm currently in a pattern of starting things (books, knitting projects, tv shows, home improvement projects) and never finishing them (see my 12 "reading now" books on goodreads, my six unfinished projects in my knitting bag, my unorganized house and over-full DVR) I figured no harm would be done by alternating between them both today. Now, if only Little Llama would take a nap . . .

Foragingfantasy I enjoyed The Bees. 🐝 7y
BookNAround Never thought I'd like The Bees (picked it up when the universe seemed to be pushing it on me) but thought it was fantastic. 7y
Suet624 😂😂😂 7y
mcipher So glad this unfinished things problem is not just me! 7y
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M-D
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Library haul from last night with @Kat_Reads 💕. Looking forward to all of these

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PedanticPastorMartha
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A well written biography of Freddie Mercury and of HIV/AIDS. The authors intertwine the two stories well. The portrayal of Freddie's character is poignant and deep, showing that he was egotistical, generous, creative and secretive, loving, demanding, loyal, and driven. He was essentially alone his entire life. He created incredible music and sang it beautifully, and had many friends; but was, in the end, alone.