My Family and Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray review – tales from a rock’n’roll childhood

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From dinner with Queen to watching Ozzy Osbourne run wild, a child-eye’s view of life at a 70s recording studio

ould you like to know exactly what the members of Queen were eating as they recorded the endless “Galileos” of Bohemian Rhapsody? What David Bowie had for dinner, or which item was most prized when hardworking rockers had a food fight in the studio? The answers might all be found in Tiffany Murray’s highly entertaining memoir of a rock’n’roll childhood; or might not, depending what you think of the fallibility of memory.

The story opens at the studio called the Vicarage, where the author, aged five, first encounters Queen and Black Sabbath. One night, Joan’s boyfriend, Jackson, fresh from the boozer, wanders into the kitchen and takes one bite out of every plated-up duck breast Joan is about to serve. Joan promptly transfers her skills to the legendary Rockfield Studios, and her affections to the bearded Fritz Fryer from folk band Horslips.

 

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