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Queen: Majestätischer Klangzauber, bombastische Rocksongs, Hymnen für die Ewigkeit und innovative Soundspielereien - die Musik und die Karriere von Freddie Mercury und seiner Band lassen sich nur mit Superlativen beschreiben. Das gefeierte Biopic Bohemian Rhapsody lockte die alten Fans in die Kinos, aber auch die junge Generation von Musikhörern, die im Kinosaal ein Phänomen miterleben konnten, das es in dieser Form nie wieder geben wird. Doch wer erschuf diese unsterbliche Musik? Wer waren die Menschen hinter dem Image?

In January of 1965, 24-year-old US Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for 40 years he suffered under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes the world has known. This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick).

In Good Business, Novelli begins with his early career success in Mad Men-era marketing, which left him feeling unfulfilled. He describes the process of changing career trajectory: how he helped reposition the Peace Corps; built Porter Novelli, a global PR agency for social impact; fought the Tobacco Wars; and became CEO of AARP, the largest nonprofit in America.

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.