mooghead 26.03.2015 15:45 |
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Ozz 26.03.2015 16:34 |
John's for sure.... he's the silent one... he must have such epic tales about the band. You can read all Brian's love affairs throught his lyrics. Roger and his lifestyle could be quite interesting but I'm sure he doesn't remember much. |
matt z 26.03.2015 17:49 |
John's (obviously) His inside perspective on things would probably be refreshing. Unless he were a piss poor author. Roger: I'm guessing he'd be more inclined to restraint on a memoir/autobiography Brian's would be a literal TOME Freddie's (if he were alive) would be a pamphlet, given his disregard for books |
Sebastian 26.03.2015 19:02 |
John's, of course. |
Jake12 26.03.2015 19:29 |
John |
master marathon runner 26.03.2015 20:22 |
When I saw the heading on the home page, I thought, this is going to be unanimously John. |
scottmax 26.03.2015 20:40 |
I reckon Rogers would be decent. Proper sex, drugs and rock n roll tale |
luthorn 26.03.2015 21:05 |
John's... Monday: woke up at 6:45am, made coffee, picked up the newspaper and read until 9:00, sporadically filling up the coffee jug. Once urinated, decided to eat breakfast, a toast with jam and over easy eggs. 9:30am, breakfasted, went for a stroll. 10:30am... and so on for 300 pages. |
matt z 26.03.2015 21:58 |
luthorn wrote: John's... Monday: woke up at 6:45am, made coffee, picked up the newspaper and read until 9:00, sporadically filling up the coffee jug. Once urinated, decided to eat breakfast, a toast with jam and over easy eggs. 9:30am, breakfasted, went for a stroll. 10:30am... and so on for 300 pages.Haha! Someone told me that's exactly how Pete Townsend's autobiography is |
Elektra 26.03.2015 22:37 |
john deacon |
MercuryArts 26.03.2015 22:59 |
matt z wrote: Haha! Someone told me that's exactly how Pete Townsend's autobiography isI read Pete's book. It was a very good read. Understandably the portion of the book during the years of The Who's heyday was the best part of the book. Reading about Pete & his first wife's marital problems, aka Pete's problems, gets a little long in the tooth. But the war stories from the road during the 60's & 70's are awesome. I recommend reading it. |
Pingfah 27.03.2015 04:43 |
Good question. John's, definitely. Brian & Roger never shut up, so I doubt there's too many revelations they haven't already told us about. |
stevelondon20 27.03.2015 05:50 |
As per everyone else, it has to be John's. Although, I doubt he'll ever do one. |
user1 27.03.2015 11:10 |
Definitely John. |
dave76 27.03.2015 14:05 |
I guess John's bio would have featured a lot of blank pages :-) |
Annette 27.03.2015 14:48 |
I would like to read John's bio. He was sometimes judged as boring, but to my opinion he was just introverted. He experienced as much as the others and it would be interesting to hear some of the well known stories from his point of view. |
matt z 27.03.2015 16:53 |
John, If you're reading this...KA- CHING! ;-) and most of all. ... YOU would get pretty much all the royalties! !! (Minus portions of press photos etc) P.s. if you're not using your bass anymore. I think it would be nice to um. ... let me borrow it indefinitely. Your pal, Matt Z John's autobiography, clearly in the lead! We KNOW it'd sell in the U.K. but how about stateside? |
hobbit in Rhye 27.03.2015 19:36 |
Funny how we all take Brian & Roger's story telling for granted, though a big chunk of our Queen's knowledge came from them. Maybe I have the luck of "not yet being exposed too much" to them. I would love an autobiography from any member, there're still lots of things we don't know about them. But if I have to choose, I'd say Freddie's autobiography, even if it's out of options. He's the most masked person in the band. John was rather straighforward when he SPOKE. (I would want to choose John's autobiography too. But then my post would be very short: Agree with everything everybody said above. My final choice is Freddie's, thanks.) |
Sebastian 27.03.2015 20:10 |
hobbit-in-Rhye wrote: Funny how we all take Brian & Roger's story telling for granted, though a big chunk of our Queen's knowledge came from them.Yes but a lot of said knowledge is biased, self-serving or wrong (just like a lot isn't). Brian's autobiography would claim: * My Fairy King is on Queen II. * They never played It's Late and It's a Hard Life live. * Love of My Life was on Sheer Heart Attack or A Day at the Races. * He never played a Flying V live. * Fred didn't play Steinway pianos. * John recorded Best Friend on a Fender Rhodes. * Without Hot Space there'd be no Thriller. * There's a koto on Teo Torriatte. |
hobbit in Rhye 27.03.2015 20:54 |
For me the a lot isn't (wrong) counts. The biased is unavoidable, as with any member (ok, maybe John a little bit less). >>* There's a koto on Teo Torriatte. Perhaps he was speaking about the toy koto in The Prophet's Song, then it being a Japanese instrument, his mind automatically switched to Teo Torriatte. Quite a logical mistake. |
Sebastian 27.03.2015 21:08 |
hobbit-in-Rhye wrote: For me the a lot isn't (wrong) counts.When it comes to writing a book people are actually going to pay to read, even one mistake is too many. hobbit-in-Rhye wrote: Quite a logical mistake.It sure is, but then again, quite a few logical mistakes would end up in his book. |
hobbit in Rhye 27.03.2015 21:21 |
Have you ever read an autobiography which doesn't have mistakes, especially from rockers? Do you think John's book would make no such? Of course he hasn't been saying much lately, that saves him from mistakes. |
Sebastian 27.03.2015 21:35 |
Let me think... Slash's does have some mistakes, as does Don Felder's (plenty of them, actually). Sting's... I haven't caught any, but I've no idea about most of those things so if he made mistakes they simply went past me. The point is: having mistakes wouldn't stop me from buying and reading the book. If Brian wrote an autobiography, I'd read it, and I'd enjoy it. But it'd still have quite a few errors. I cannot guarantee John's would have less but, based on the available evidence, it'd be possible it would. Roger's most likely definitely would: his memory's not perfect (nobody's is), but it's positively eidetic compared to Brian's. |
mooghead 28.03.2015 04:57 |
Musician autobiographies are rarely discographies though. There is an assumption here that Brian would talk in depth about the recording of every single Queen song. Much as that would be interesting for us Queen fans it isn't what an autobiography is about, it would make a very poor 'story'. |
andyb1968 28.03.2015 05:02 |
I'm guessing deaky has been offered bundles of cash for a no holds barred autobiography ! Don't think we'll ever see it though. |
Sebastian 28.03.2015 07:22 |
mooghead wrote: Musician autobiographies are rarely discographies though. There is an assumption here that Brian would talk in depth about the recording of every single Queen song.No, I get that it's not meant to cater to die-hards but still, I assume he could say something like 'in 1975 we did the A Day at the Races album at De Lane Lea in Notting Hill, it included my song She Makes Me where I played ukelele.' |
noorie 28.03.2015 10:54 |
Actually I think Brian's book would be immensely boring, unless his bitchy side comes out. He does have one - his remarks about Bowie and John at odd moments are quite astonishing. Freddie's book on the other hand would be an amazingly fun read. It would be completely politically incorrect and he would be open and interesting throughout. No holds barred (except about his sex life perhaps, but as I am not very interested in his sex life or his AIDS, that would not matter to me) He was a very private man, but when he did speak out, he was refreshingly open and honest. And fun! IF John would write an open and honest memoir, we would know so much more about the real Queen, but I very much doubt that is ever going to happen. |
JomaDuckSoup 28.03.2015 19:14 |
Brian always says that Roger remembers everything. Must be amazing to read Roger's autobio! |
JomaDuckSoup 28.03.2015 19:14 |
Double Post |
Sebastian 29.03.2015 01:26 |
JomaDuckSoup wrote: Brian always says that Roger remembers everything. Must be amazing to read Roger's autobio!Well, Brian doesn't remember everything, so he probably doesn't remember that Roger doesn't remember everything. Roger's memory's not perfect (nobody's is), but it's positively eidetic compared to Brian's. |
mooghead 29.03.2015 14:43 |
I think Roger's book would be amazing but he would never be candid.. he would keep all the really juicy stuff to himself and throw in a few scraps for interesting quotes for the poster for his book. The biggest shagger but the most secretive. Frustrating... |
matt z 29.03.2015 17:48 |
mooghead wrote: I think Roger's book would be amazing but he would never be candid.. he would keep all the really juicy stuff to himself and throw in a few scraps for interesting quotes for the poster for his book. The biggest shagger but the most secretive. Frustrating...You mean **the greatest shagger whose interests are similar to that of our own.** Of course, being that Freddie likely outshagged numbers larger than several small nations (anually)* *not a typo |
mooghead 30.03.2015 16:18 |
I dunno... I reckon Roger outshagged Freddie... Freddie was a massive shagger but started shagging a lot later than Roger... they were close at the finishing line but Roger had several more years of shagging... he no doubt continues to do so. I love that man xx |
Apocalipsis_Darko 30.03.2015 17:44 |
John, without doubt. |
Oscar J 31.03.2015 09:21 |
Roger's. Brian talks a lot about himself anyway, and John might not have lived an as interesting life as the others. |
matt z 01.04.2015 23:50 |
^I'll bet John has some incredible bar stories. .... But probably wouldn't remember them |
Costa86 02.04.2015 08:38 |
Like everyone else, John's. We already know a lot about the other three. If anything, we'd get to know more about why John refuses to do anything with Queen. John is also the only one who never really lived as a rockstar, so we'd have a common man's perspective of being part of the biggest group in the world. |
Invisible Woman 29.07.2017 16:42 |
I like to read biographies.I would want to read autobiographies of all members. It's a pity that Freddie didn't anything write, at least through a diary. That would be very interesting. |
dysan 29.07.2017 16:53 |
I imagine Roger's would be very similar in style and content to Alex James's. A series of short sentences following this rule: 'Set up stating a fact'. 'Contradictory statement for comical effect' Like: We then travelled to the Windy City for the next show. Freddie was also windy that night. Brian's would go into such minute detail like how many individual oxide particles are per mm of recording tape so therefore Bohemian Rhapsody used X amount of them. I'd happily read both. But if I had to read one, it would be by John. |