Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury

Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury by Richards, Matt. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781681881881.

For the first time, the final years of one of the worlds most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercurys closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Somebody to Love is an authoritative biography of the great man. Here are previously unknown and startling facts about the singer and his life, moving detail on his lifelong search for love and personal fulfilment, and of course his tragic contraction of a then killer disease in the mid-1980s. Woven throughout Freddies life is the shocking story of how the HIV virus came to hold the world in its grip, was cruelly labelled The Gay Plague and the unwitting few who indirectly infected thousands of men, women and children - Freddie Mercury himself being one of the most famous. The death of this vibrant and spectacularly talented rock star, shook the world of medicine as well as the world of music. Somebody to Love finally puts the record straight and pays detailed tribute to the man himself.