Queen, The Early Years is the first biography of the legendary British band to focus on their formative years. It hightlights the desperately urgent days of pre-stardom, when the Queen quartet played with bands kike The Reaction, The Opposition, 1984 and Sour Milk Sea.

Author Mark Hodkinson has interviewed over 60 friends and colleagues of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, and pieced together a fascinating web of stories that for the first time tell the true story of the emergent Queen.

From the tiny downbeat village of Oadby in Leicestershire where John Deacon grew up, to the exotic splendour of Zanzibar, where Farookh Bulsara was born, Hodkinson offers a new and exciting version of Queen. In tracing these unpublished stories he also examines the Queen era before and immediately after stardom.

Candid, authoritative, and with extraordinary attention to detail, Queen The Early Years is neither authorised nor censored by the band, nor is it stitched together from the same old tired press clippings as the the ‘quickie’ biographies that appeared soon after Freddie Mercury’s death. It is the first genuine account of Queen’s rise to stardom, as told by those who knew the band and watched them from the front row.