Mark Blake

Queen's success in the 1970s was accompanied by a taste for musical and non-musical excess. Is This the Real Life? draws on eyewitness testimonies--former producers and managers, ex-girlfriends and boyfriends--to create a complete picture of one of the world's most ambitiously driven rock bands at work and at play. Revealing Queen's complex dynamic, Blake also explores how Freddie M...

Forty years after the release of "Dark Side of the Moon" in 1973 interest in Pink Floyd remains as intense as ever, with lavish box-sets collecting demos and out-takes, and Roger Waters' world tours of "The Wall" playing to packed stadiums. Now, Mark Blake's definitive account of this most adventurous, and at the same time most English of rock bands has been fully updated, with a new ...