It appears that she’s rebranded to appear to be connected to the movie.
It’s sad so many young fans are getting this book for Christmas and will take it as truth.
Sweetandtenderhooligan wrote:
It appears that she’s rebranded to appear to be connected to the movie.
It’s sad so many young fans are getting this book for Christmas and will take it as truth.
The book has a t least some truth in it. This sad movie almost none
There're so many biographies of Freddie, that the term "The definitive" makes me hard to believe it's gonna be the last one, lol!, especially coming from Jones. I agree is sad that young fans buy and believe inaccurate things, but I think if they're really interested in the band, they'll do some research, got to reliable sources and make comparisons, or at least, that's what a hope.
Lesley Ann Jones’ book is great!! I consider it a bible for all Queen fans. It gives us fans so many new insights. All things written in the book are very accurate. There are no lies or false information in it and you can see that she loved Freddie. It’s written with such passion!!
Hey, OP, the biggest problem with this book is not too many hardcore fans find it tolerable to accept some statements made in it. I only read the original 1998 version (or something like that) and I found her extensive depiction of Zanzibar pretty compelling, her excerpts from interviews with Barbara Valentin were also very good, I thought. Then it contains a lot of "insider's knowledge" which were obviously questioned over the years, but I can only say that - my gut feeling is she actually liked Freddie the person/the rockstar and at the same time was indeed the "fair cop" Brian would like (us) to think the movie is. Enjoy your read.
The movie is shit
The book of Lesley Ann Jones is way better
The book is always better than the movie
One exception: Jesus Christ Superstar is better than the bible
I agree with k-m and also read the 1998 version of the book.
It seems she went pretty deep with her research on his time in Zanzibar and Panchgani. It was the first bio that i read on Freddie and treated it as gospel for a long time. I can't really remember much of it now though, as it has been a while that read it.
Sheldon wrote:
Sweetandtenderhooligan, I fixed it for you: "It’s sad so many young fans are watching this film around Christmas and will take it as truth." ;-)
I'm not sure why people think the book is a good read when she had no problem published the blatant lies Barbara told her about sleeping with Freddie and him choking her.