I just love everything about this man. I enjoyed reading a book in his own words.

great biography about one of my favourite people to ever grace this earth

As is noted by the editor in the beginning, the book is largely contradictory. If you are looking for life advice, this is not the place to go. However, if you want an insight into the mind of Freddie, it is fantastic. And again, this is a book for fans.

There was trend in scrapbooking where folks would take the photos out of their original time series/contextual groupings and organize them into albums based on a particular person or theme.

This book is sort of like that- curated excerpts of interviews pulled out of context and grouped into themes.

So while it is obviously great to hear Freddie's actual words on a given topic, there is absolutely no way to tell the context of a given passage. This tends lead to repetitive (or sometimes contradictory) items where Freddie says basically the same thing in different interviews which are excerpted one after another in the book.

A footnote (or even just a date stamp) along with each excerpt would have gone a long way towards addressing this issue.

Some people have the opinion that there's nothing personal inside this book. They are both right and wrong.

If you want to read this because you're looking for details of his private life: you won't really find it. He doesn't really elaborate about the relationships he's had. You won't find much detail about his private life.

And yet ... this is a treasure chest of information. This book contains his words. His views. He is open but he's himself. So it feels really personal none the less. I would never believe that a book would contain his actual words if it was filled with details of his sexlife or his private life.

Freddie Mercury was frank and flippant but he was private. He gives his honest opinions and it's a true insight into his mind, his heart, his soul.

I have loved this book and I will read it more than once. I believe that a true Freddie Mercury-fan will love this book.

The only thing missing - for me - is that you don't know when he said certain things. The book gives no references, only at the end a summary is given. Maybe the book wouldn't be as fluent if they had to put references by each paragraph. They probably had their reasons but I missed it.

Still: 5 stars because this book delivered exactly what I wanted: true words of a true legend. Insights into the mystery that will never be solved.

This book is a great way to gain an insight into Mercury’s life. A compilation of interviews he took part in, this was the closest thing you could get to an autobiography. I did mainly pick this book up to learn about Mercury’s work ethic and his work, but was grateful to read about some other topics that I hadn’t had in mind.

I wish there was an audiobook available. I understand that because this is a compilation of interviews, this probably wasn’t feasible, but I do find listening to an audiobook helps me maintain focus.

Un libro con un buon potenziale, ma tradotto in modo terribile. Il risultato è stato un libro che non vedevo l'ora che finisse, ma che ho comunque letto fino in fondo per rispetto del protagonista. Molti spunti interessanti e un tuffo nella vita di un grandissimo artista, quindi non mi sento di dare meno di tre stelle, ma il tutto risulta poco leggibile.