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Freddie Mercury had an affair with a close friend’s wife and, in 1977, became a father. He’s now a grandfather. That’s the foundation of a new book ‘Love, Freddie’ by his highly respected biographer Lesley-Ann Jones which details a four-year, detailed exchange with his daughter ‘B’, now 48, and the contents of the 17 notebooks he gave her before he died in 1991. We talk to Lesley-Ann here about this gripping new tilt on his story which covers …
… the 41-page document B sent her in 2021 and how the author assumed it was a hoax
… why B was outraged by his portrayal in the Bohemian Rhapsody biopic
… how the notebooks Freddie gave her are legally owned by Sony “and she would burn them if they tried to collect them”
… Freddie’s turmoil at the time of her conception - engaged to Mary Austin, a love affair with David Minns
… B’s secret life in Kensington and Montreux and her father’s “scary knitwear” disguises
… “in the age of AI, even a real photo of Freddie and his daughter would be reckoned a scam”
… the unheard – surely priceless - recordings Freddie made of the two of them singing together
… how B’s existence stayed a secret and the members of Queen’s inner circle who might have known about her
… the photo of B, aged four, with her dad and David Bowie
… and how there were no denials about B’s existence from Queen or any Cease & Desist demands when the book extracts published.
Order ‘Love, Freddie’ here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Freddie-Mercurys-Secret-Life/dp/1916797962
Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear
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Freddie Mercury had an affair with a close friend’s wife and, in 1977, became a father. He’s now a grandfather. That’s the foundation of a new book ‘Love, Freddie’ by his highly respected biographer Lesley-Ann Jones which details a four-year, detailed exchange with his daughter ‘B’, now 48, and the contents of the 17 notebooks he gave her before he died in 1991. We talk to Lesley-Ann here about this gripping new tilt on his story which covers …
… the 41-page document B sent her in 2021 and how the author assumed it was a hoax
… why B was outraged by his portrayal in the Bohemian Rhapsody biopic
… how the notebooks Freddie gave her are legally owned by Sony “and she would burn them if they tried to collect them”
… Freddie’s turmoil at the time of her conception - engaged to Mary Austin, a love affair with David Minns
… B’s secret life in Kensington and Montreux and her father’s “scary knitwear” disguises
… “in the age of AI, even a real photo of Freddie and his daughter would be reckoned a scam”
… the unheard – surely priceless - recordings Freddie made of the two of them singing together
… how B’s existence stayed a secret and the members of Queen’s inner circle who might have known about her
… the photo of B, aged four, with her dad and David Bowie
… and how there were no denials about B’s existence from Queen or any Cease & Desist demands when the book extracts published.
Order ‘Love, Freddie’ here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Freddie-Mercurys-Secret-Life/dp/1916797962
Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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