I’m a massive QUEEN fan and think that Freddie Mercury was a musical genius on par with Mozart, so I was all set to love a story that revolved around him.
So imagine my surprise when the book turned out to be a deeply personal memoir that only kind of relates to Queen in that the author was obsessed with hem as a child. There are more details about Wham! than there are about the titular Freddie.
Some kudos are deserved for Dawson’s expert exploration of what memory is and how music shapes and follows us throughout our lives. It really is a very personal story and Dawson does a great job in the telling and presentation of it.
Alas, it was neither what I was looking for nor in the mood for.