Freddie Mercury is a cult artist whose incredible stage images and unique performance style still delight listeners around the world. But what was he like outside the dazzling spotlight? In 1983, fate accidentally brought Freddie Mercury to Jim Hutton in one of the London bars. From this moment begins an amazing love story between a simple Irish hairdresser and an eccentric rock star, which lasted until the artist’s death in 1991. Forced to introduce himself exclusively as the star’s gardener so as not to attract the attention of the press, in reality Hutton shared all the joys and sorrows with Mercury... and one, then still incurable, disease for two. Jim Hutton's touching and simple memoirs tell a love story that money, fame, illness and even death itself could not destroy.