Peter Freestone was Freddie Mercury's Personal Assistant for the last 12 years of his life. He
lived with Mercury in London Munich and New York and he was with him when he died.In this
book the most intimate account of Mercury's life ever written he reveals the truth behind the
scandalous rumours the outrageous lifestyle and Mercury's relationships with men women and
the other members of Queen.From the famous names - including Elton John Kenny Everett
Elizabeth Taylor and Rod Stewart - to the shadowy army of lovers fixers and hangers-on Peter
Freestone saw them all play their part in the tragi-comedy that was Freddie Mercury's life.
Freestone lived with Mercury in Europe and America for over a decade. From the East 50s
apartment in New York to Kensington Lodge the house in London where Mercury died - not to
mention innumerable international hotel rooms and apartments in between - Freestone was always
on hand to serve and protect the man he had first met in the Biba department store in the early
1970s. Then Queen was a largely unknown band. Soon it would be the most glitzy of glam rock
bands. Freestone saw the fame arrive and with it the generosity the excess and the celebrity
friends who came and went.I was chief cook and bottle washer waiter butler valet secretary
amanuensis cleaner baby-sitter... and agony aunt he writes. I shopped for him both at
supermarkets and art markets I travelled the world with him I was with him at the highs and
came through the lows with him. I saw the creative juices flow and I also saw the frustration
when life wasn't going well. I acted as his bodyguard when needed and in the end of course I
was one of his nurses.Freestone's best-selling account of a talented and extravagant star's
life and death is compelling entertaining and ultimately very touching.
