Com Amor, Freddie

by Lesley-Ann Jones

Poucas pessoas sabiam que Freddie Mercury mantinha um diário. Quando morreu em 1991, deixou dezassete cadernos manuscritos que relatavam a sua vida, e a sua época, iniciados em 1976, quando os Queen estavam no auge da fama mundial. A sua última entrada foi escrita algumas semanas antes da sua morte.
Apenas quatro das pessoas mais próximas sabiam o que tinha acontecido a esses diários. A uma delas, a filha, Freddie confiou-os secretamente pouco antes de morrer. Uma leitura impressionante, constituem a aproximação mais fiel que o mundo alguma vez conhecerá de uma autobiografia de Freddie Mercury.
Em 2021, a filha abordou a autora, oferecendo algo iné acesso total e irrestrito às confissões mais íntimas do artista. Durante três anos e meio, Lesley-Ann Jones mergulhou nas revelações pessoais de Freddie, construindo uma narrativa que vai abalar tudo o que pensávamos saber sobre ele e o seu legado.
Com amor, Freddie partilha segredos chocantes da infância do músico, revela os seus medos mais profundos e desejos mais apaixonados, explora a inspiração por trás das suas composições, revisita as suas relações mais próximas e dá a conhecer o amor da sua vida. Aqui está, de uma vez por todas, a verdadeira história de Freddie Mercury.

339 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 19, 2025

About the author

Lesley-Ann Jones is a British biographer, novelist, broadcaster and keynote speaker.
She honed her craft on Fleet Street, where she worked as a newspaper columnist and feature writer for more than twenty years. She has also worked extensively in radio and television, appears regularly in music documentaries in the UK, USA and Australia, and is the writer and co-producer of ‘The Last Lennon Interview’, a film about the final encounter, in New York, between the former Beatle and BBC Radio One presenter Andy Peebles.

Her debut memoir ‘Tumbling Dice’ is out now.
NB: the cover of TUMBLING DICE displayed here is NOT the current, correct one, but is of an edition that was never published! It appears to be impossible to change it! The ISBN for the CORRECT, CURRENT VERSION is 978109175

First serialisation rights for TUMBLING DICE were acquired by the Mail on Sunday UK, published across four pages on 7th April 2019. Second serial went to The Times, UK, featured as a double-page spread on 10th April.

The author’s interview with US ABC Radio network is syndicated to 2,000 stations across the United States. She has discussed the book on most BBC local stations, including BBC York, Northampton, Guernsey, Cornwall, Solent, Hereford & Worcester, Derby and Oxford. Live radio exposure continues over the coming weeks, with BBC Radio London’s Robert Elms Show, Wandsworth Radio, Express FM’s The Soft Rock Show, K107FM Scotland, Wycombe Sound, Camglen Radio (Scotland), the Sticks Radio Show & podcast, BBC Radio Kent, Radio Caroline, Talk Radio’s The Paul Ross Show and Talk Radio Europe’s Bill Padley Show.
Lesley-Ann Jones’s agents are currently negotiating with two independent production majors on a screen adaptation of TUMBLING DICE.

Other recent works include ‘Hero: David Bowie’, ‘Imagine’, and ‘Ride a White Swan: The Lives and Death of Marc Bolan’. Her globally-acclaimed definitive biography of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, re-issued in 2019 as ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, is a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. The book accompanies the band’s long-awaited eponymous feature film, the highest-grossing music biopic of all time.

The author is currently working on two further titles, for publication in 2020.

She is a mother of three, and lives in London.