Overview

• The collection includes abandoned verses for Bohemian Rhapsody, multiple drafts of Don’t Stop Me Now, and lyrics to songs that were never recorded.
• Credited as Freddie Mercury with Mary Austin, the book pairs manuscripts with her recollections and previously unseen photographs from his archive.
• HarperCollins will issue hardback, ebook and audiobook editions four days before what would have been Mercury’s 80th birthday.
• Austin says she found the materials in early 2023 while cataloguing papers kept at Mercury’s former home since his death in 1991.
• Separately, a new biography alleges Mercury had a daughter in the 1970s, a claim Austin says she did not know about and which is not part of this release.