Queen: As It Began

Authorized and Revised Edition

By: Jacky Smith, Jim Jenkins

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

The original edition of this revered and authorized Queen biography explored every aspect of the legendary group’s career from inception to 1992. Newly revised and updated with cooperation and insight from Brian May and Roger Taylor—and drawing on exclusive interviews with the bandmembers—this book completes the story of the Mercury era and the immediate years after his death. With numerous extra photographs and a new Foreword from Brian May, Queen: As It Began: Revised and Authorized is an informative and authoritative portrait of Queen’s most fundamental period.

©2022 Original edition © 1992 by Jacky Gunn and Jim Jenkins. This edition © 2022 by Omnibus Press (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

For Queen fans

I loved it. So many things I learned about all the members of Queen. I enjoyed it very much. Queen forever 💕

Queen!

I loved this book because I love Queen. There was so much that I learned from listening to this book. From each members' personal lives to the band as a whole. If you are a big fan of Queen like myself, listen to this book. The only suggestion that I would like to make for audible is that when recording this, I wish that they would have played a Queen song in between each chapter. When the narrartor talked about each song, it had me constantly pausing the book and playing my Queen playlist.

Amazing In Depth Historical Account!

One if the best historical accounts if the band I've consumed. As an avid Queen fan for the last 30+ years, I've had a lot of information pass through my brain about the band and Freddie and this is in the top 3 best! Worth a listen! I even learned a few things I never knew before.

Very good, but insufficiently deep

This is a great synopsis of the career of Queen, but does not delve far enough below the surface to be definitive, which is surprising, given that one of the authors runs the Queen fan club. It's unclear if the band were at all involved, but there's nearly nothing here that one couldn't gather from reading Queen's press. A good book for sure, and worth the listen, but it left me wanting a lot more.

Good listen, but some glaring inaccuracies.

I enjoyed the book, however I couldn't stop laughing when It referred to Kansas as a Canadian band