Friday 14 September 2012

Freddie & Me: A Coming of Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody by Mike Dawson (gn)

An interesting chronicle of life lived with an obsession with Queen.  Mike Dawson is born Scottish but grows up in the Midlands before moving with his family to America, where Queen are virtually unknown.  Like many of us of the same generation he describes the first time he saw the groundbreaking band on television with their strange videos and Mercury's awesome voice.  I liked the nice touches of Mike's parents giving him his first Queen album on tape.  Relations with family and the tensions of growing up with an older brother and younger sister are well narrated.

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