Long Live Queen: Rock Royalty Discuss Freddie, Brian, John & Roger
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Review "Greg'’s done a really cool thing here, in tribute to what he calls his favourite band ever. Long Live Queen is totally innovative as well, but then that’'s what we’'ve grown toexpect from Prato, who has not only been prolific with rock books, butis turning the genre inside out with new concepts seemingly every sixmonths. What’ he's done here is simply this —simple, but no one'’s doneit— - solicited commentary from Queen from rock stars, and then, havingcollected so much rich material, sorted it into nine categories, or“acts.” So we get discovery, seeing the band live, production...man,everything talked about, gems on every page, which it doesn'’t matterwhere you open the book, you are instantly engaged, no need for backstory, and you find yourself just mowing forward from that point.Personally, having gone through a slightly similar exercise myself withQueen and four other bands, with the Album by Album series, I can see spots where I would have tightened up the text, maybe resulting in a 10% trim overall, but man, minor issue. In any event, what falls out of the experience in the aggregate, after so much expert opinion, is amassive amount of Queen knowledge and appreciation, so missionaccomplished. Man, I hope Greg’s got more of these comin'’." --Martin Popoff (author of Queen: Album by Album book)"With Queen now infecting the next generation, Greg's compilation of people that were weened on the band, and seen it first-hand, is a must for anew or the old fan - to educate or simply bring back the memories. There will never be anything ever again like Queen. Tremendous companion for any Queen fan!" --Keith Roth (Host of Ozzy's Boneyard and Hair Nation on Sirius Radio, host of Electric Ballroom radio show)"It's interesting to read how muchinfluence the band has had on the world of music from the perspective of those within that same world." --Screamer Magazine Read more
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I was a bit disappointed in this book, as I expected the “Rock Royalty” to be more familiar names to me. As it was, I didn’t know who most of the people were. But I would guess anyone working in the music business probably would know a lot of them. Also I am from the US, and probably a lot of these names are musicians from the UK or other European areas. I also expected that most of the people would have personally met the band members and would have personal antidotes about the band to share, but that was usually not the case. However I don’t regret buying the book as it was not that expensive and I want to learn as much about this amazing band as I can, so even if I learn only a few new things, it is worth it to me.
