Mark Langthorne Knihy

Aki kívül hordta a szívét! - Szerelem és útkeresés a tomboló sikerben. Első ízben derül fény mindenre a világ egyik legmegragadóbb rocksztárjával kapcsolatban. A Bohém rapszódia átfogó életrajz erről a nagyszerű emberről, privát fotókkal és interjúkkal. Azok az emberek szólalnak meg, akik Freddie Mercury legközelebbi barátai voltak élete utolsó éveiben. A könyv rengeteg korábban ismeretlen, megdöbbentő tényt közöl az énekesről és életéről, megrendítő részletekkel a szerelem és az önbeteljesítés élethosszig tartó kereséséről, és természetesen arról, hogy az 1980-as évek középén elkapta a végzetes betegséget. Freddie életének sokkoló történetén keresztül azt is megismerhetjük, hogyan kényszerítette térdre a világot a HIV-fertőzés, amit a The Gay Plague, azaz "melegvírus" gúnynévvel illettek. Az élettel teli, lenyűgözően tehetséges rocksztár halála mind az orvos-, mind a zenésztársadalmat megrázta. A Bohém rapszódia végre tiszta vizet önt a pohárba, és alaposan körüljárja Freddie Mercury életét, hogy méltó emléket állítson neki.

For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury's 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 Freddie's 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.

In Somebody to Love, biographers Mark Langthorne and Matt Richards skilfully weave both Freddie Mercury's incredible pursuit of musical greatness with Queen, his upbringing and his endless search for love with the story of a terrible disease that swept across the world in the 1980s.

On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic news that Michael Jackson was pronounced dead on arrival at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 50 years old. As the news reverberated around the world, it was accompanied by even more shocking and controversial information--the revelation that Jackson had died in the care of his personal physician, Doctor Conrad Murray, a whole 83 minutes before Murray put in a 911 call. In this comprehensive and truly horrifying account of those crucial minutes--Murray's frantic attempts to cover his tracks and revive his client before the truth could be revealed--are laid bare. This is a compelling, multi-perspective tracking of all who were involved at the scene, and their part to play in the events surrounding Jackson's tragic passing. The cocktail of drugs employed to keep Jackson alive, administered by Murray himself; the harrowing conditions in which this troubled musical genius ended his life, are all described from official court documents.

Almost seventy-five years ago, MI9 dreamt up the most audacious escape and evasion plan of World War Two. Formulated by Airey Neave, one of the first men ever to escape from Colditz, this plan was one of subterfuge, concealment and deception on a scale never seen before...Told through interviews with evaders, members of the Resistance and the children charged with smuggling food into the forest, this book tells the compelling story of one of the most audacious operations in World War Two. A story that has, until today, remained as secret as the Hidden Army of Freteval.