I just bought and read Mercury and Me. I kept waiting for lurid details which shocked people at the time but it was mostly just a sweet love story. Has the text been changed since the original edition or is it the zeitgheist that has changed? Was a gay love affair that shocking in the nineties?
The thing I could see that would annoy the Queen machine is how he talks about Mary and how he treated Jim, Joe and Phoebe after Freddie died.
The version I read was posted online from someone who made many spelling mistakes. (Oh well, Can't find it in a library)
So I'm of no help there.
The only lurid thing I can remember is a UK programme *(I spelled it uk style for you f***s) in which Jim was interviewed and bashfully mentioned the size of ... Freddie' s..... thermometer.
I forget what it was called. Its probably been pulled from YouTube. "Freddie Mercury's loves" or something like that.
Yeah, I remember that n' all. Thought at the time, well you're supposed to have loved Freddie, but what kinda loyalty is that, knowing his dear mother and sister have every chance of seeing this.
I didn't read anything that would have shocked people. Reading negative reviews made me not want to read it, but once I finally did I didn't see what the fuss was about. Not a hugely exciting book, sweet love story
I bought it back in '96 and liked it. Never felt outraged about any of it. Like the above poster mentioned, it's a sweet love story and it's Jim's side of it.
I enjoyed it a bit more than Phoebe's book because Jim Hutton's is in chronological order. A matter of taste, perhaps?