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Queen: As It Began

Authorized and Revised Edition

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Queen: As It Began

By: Jacky Smith, Jim Jenkins
Narrated by: Mike Cooper
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The original edition of this revered and authorized Queen biography explored every aspect of the legendary group’s career from inception to 1992. Newly revised and updated with cooperation and insight from Brian May and Roger Taylor—and drawing on exclusive interviews with the bandmembers—this book completes the story of the Mercury era and the immediate years after his death. With numerous extra photographs and a new Foreword from Brian May, Queen: As It Began: Revised and Authorized is an informative and authoritative portrait of Queen’s most fundamental period.

©2022 Original edition © 1992 by Jacky Gunn and Jim Jenkins. This edition © 2022 by Omnibus Press (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing Entertainment & Celebrities Celebrity Royalty
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In Chapter 7 it mentions that Queen were replaced on the Mott The Hoople tour with Canadian band "Kansas".
Obviously Kansas is from Kansas, USA, not Canada.
Oh dear.....
Check your facts before publishing......

error in chapter 7

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If you want to know the release date of every record or single the band did, here it is. If you want a book where Freddie is gay for two sentences at the end - straightwashed for foreign markets who want the music but not the man - here's your tome. It's a quite impersonal book, you don't feel close to a single member. interesting hearing about their beginnings, and the amount of money they contributed to charities, but I'm sure there are countless better books. The voice actor sounded like a radio host, not a narrator.

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