Queen in the 1970s: Decades

Freddie Bulsara, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon formed Queen in 1964. They struggled with legal troubles, critical hostility, and financial hardship in the early 1970s. Queen projected an image of regal, mystical, and exotic, but behind the black eyeliner and dry ice, they were four sharply contrasting individuals whose struggle to win success was as dramatic as the ogre battles and fairy king fantasias in their music. Queen in the Seventies is an up-close examination of the band's first ten years, when they forged their unique vision, beat off the critics, and became champions of the world.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2023
Publisher: Sonicbond Publishing

When Freddie Bulsara arrived in England in 1964, fleeing with his family from a bloody revolution on the streets of his homeland Zanzibar, he already knew that he wanted to be a rock n roll star. But before that dream could become a reality, there were three specific people he needed to meet. Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon were the other three components in what became Queen, a band whose name is now writ large in rock legend, but whose members spent their early career mired in legal troubles, critical hostility, and financial hardship. In the early 1970s, with their preening singer and arch conceptualizer now renamed Freddie Mercury, the group projected an image that was at once regal, mystical, and exotic. Yet behind the black eyeliner and billows of dry ice, Queen were four sharply contrasting individuals whose dogged struggle to win success was every bit as dramatic as the ogre battles and fairy king fantasias that populated their music. Queen in the Seventies is an up-close examination of the band's now critically adored first ten years, the decade when they forged their unique vision, beat off the critics, and became, after many epic tantrums and much violent throwing of crockery, champions of the world.

When Freddie Bulsara arrived in England in 1964, fleeing with his family from a bloody revolution on the streets of his homeland Zanzibar, he already knew that he wanted to be a rock n roll star. But before that dream could become a reality, there were three specific people he needed to meet. Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon were the other three components in what became Queen, a band whose name is now writ large in rock legend, but whose members spent their early career mired in legal troubles, critical hostility, and financial hardship. In the early 1970s, with their preening singer and arch conceptualizer now renamed Freddie Mercury, the group projected an image that was at once regal, mystical, and exotic. Yet behind the black eyeliner and billows of dry ice, Queen were four sharply contrasting individuals whose dogged struggle to win success was every bit as dramatic as the ogre battles and fairy king fantasias that populated their music. Queen in the Seventies is an up-close examination of the band's now critically adored first ten years, the decade when they forged their unique vision, beat off the critics, and became, after many epic tantrums and much violent throwing of crockery, champions of the world.

Weight: 238g
Dimension: 147 x 209 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789522655