Drei Akademiker und ein frustrierter Kunststudent, die endlich Geld verdienen wollten und dabei kompromisslos ihren Weg im Musikgeschäft gingen – das war Queen. Angetrieben vom eigenwilligen, ambitionierten und gradlinigen Freddie Mercury erreichten Queen die höchsten Weihen im Rock-Olymp. Freddie erzählt die Geschichte dieser Band, die oft kurz vor dem Ende stand und dann doch immer wieder weitermachte, weil ihre Mitglieder es liebten, musikalische Grenzen zu überschreiten.

Freddie erzählt aber auch seine ganz persönliche Geschichte: Wie er seinen Traum verwirklicht und Reichtum und Ruhm erntet, wie er mit dem Älterwerden, die Vergänglichkeit und schließlich dem Tod konfrontiert wird. Zahlreiche Fotos, viele davon bislang unveröffentlicht, begleiten seine Worte. Elaboriert. Extrovertiert. Extravagant. Freddie Mercury zählt unbestritten zu den größten Selbstdarstellern der Rockgeschichte: Das Bild, wie Mercury mit hoch gereckter Faust und gespreiztem Schritt auf der Bühne verharrt, hat sich auf ewig ins kollektive Gedächtnis gebrannt. Er war ein schillernder Paradiesvogel, wie es ihn vorher und nachher nicht mehr gegeben hat.

Am 5. September 2016 wäre der britische Rocksänger 70 Jahre alt geworden, und am 24. November 2016 jährt sich sein Todestag zum 25. Mal. Wäre Freddie Mercury noch am Leben, hätte er aktiv an diesem Buch mitwirken müssen. Das hätte bedeutet, dass er viele Tage mit endlosen Interviews hätte verbringen müssen, mit einem Ghostwriter, der dann in seinem Namen eine Autobiografie geschrieben hätte. Mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit hätte Freddie Mercury weder die Lust noch die Geduld für ein derartiges Projekt aufgebracht und ziemlich schnell das Interesse daran verloren. Er hasste es, sich zu langweilen.

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Zweitens gab es keinen Ghostwriter. Alles, was in diesem Buch zu lesen ist, hat Freddie Mercury auch so gesagt. Die Herausgeber stellten die Zitate mit viel Liebe zur Sache zusammen und unterzogen sie mit viel Fingerspitzengefühl allenfalls einer redaktionellen Überarbeitung. So entstand ein sehr persönliches Porträt des Künstlers, das sein Temperament und seine Widersprüchlichkeit unverfälscht wiedergibt und dabei auch die Entwicklung von Queen, einer der erfolgreichsten Rock-Gruppen der Geschichte, erzählt.

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