Life on Two Legs By: Norman J Sheffield

Author: Norman J. Sheffield, Paul McCartney

Life on Two Legs In March, 1968, Norman Sheffield opened a ground-breaking, new recording facility in London’s Soho. For the next 15 years, Trident Studios, was at the epicentre of the music industry, recording some of the era’s greatest artists, from The Beatles and David Bowie to Elton John and Genesis. Trident also developed their own talent, including a raw and demanding four-piece band called Queen. After an acrimonious split with Trident, their volatile leader Freddie Mercury famously dedicated a song to Norman: Death On Two Legs. In Life On Two Legs, this legendary music figure breaks his forty year silence and sets the record straight, not just about Freddie and Queen but also about artists from John Lennon and Marc Bolan to Harry Nilsson and Phil Collins and the recording of such classics as Hey Jude by The Beatles and Space Oddity by David Bowie. Funny, fascinating and occasionally irreverent – and with a foreword by Sir Paul McCartney – this is an unmissable memoir that brings to vivid life some of rock’s greatest characters as well as the era and the studio that produced some of its classic music.