Mercury and Me

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An Intimate Memoir by the Man Freddie Loved

By Jim Hutton and Tim Wapshott

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Mercury and Me by Jim Hutton and Tim Wapshott is a deeply personal memoir that details the relationship between Jim Hutton and the iconic Queen frontman, Freddie Mercury. The book provides an intimate look into their life together, shedding light on Mercury's private moments, his struggles, and his personality beyond the stage. It's a heartfelt account that captures the love, challenges, and everyday reality of their partnership.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Mercury and Me

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Honest and moving Independent on Sunday

Freddie Mercury was a rock superstar like no other. Recently the focus of the Academy Award-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody, he generated over £1 billion worth of sales in a career spanning two decades. But for all his riches, Mercury could not buy the thing he sought most: the love of one particular man.

Jim Hutton was a modest gentleman’s barber when the two met in 1983. After many fiery false starts, they became lasting lovers. From the moment they lived together, wherever Mercury went, Hutton went too. And whoever Mercury met, Hutton met as well–from Phil Collins to Elton John, David Bowie to the other members of Queen. They laughed together, fought together and, in Mercury’s final years, they often cried together.

Freddie Mercury was forty-five when he died from AIDS in Hutton’s arms. No one can tell the story of the last few years of Mercury’s private life–the ecstasies and the agonies–more accurately or honestly than Jim Hutton.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526614506

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 August 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 204g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Jim Hutton Musicians, Movie Stars & Creative Biographies Non-Fiction Tim Wapshott

About the Author

Jim Hutton was working as a hairdresser when he first met Freddie Mercury in a bar in 1983. Their relationship evolved over several months in 1984 and 1985. Hutton worked as a barber at the Savoy Hotel and retained his job and his lodgings in Sutton, Surrey, for two years after moving in with Mercury, and then worked as a gardener. From 1985 until Mercury's death in 1991 he was closer to him than anyone and knew all of Mercury's closest friends. Hutton died in 2010 at the age of 61.