My Family and Other Rock Stars

Tiffany Murray grew up at Rockfield Studios in rural Wales, the residential recording complex where Queen tracked "Bohemian Rhapsody" and a rotating cast of 1970s rock royalty came to work and, often, unravel. Her memoir treats that setting not as celebrity trivia but as the ordinary texture of a childhood — famous musicians passing through the kitchen while her family ran the practical business of feeding and housing them. The tension the book navigates well is between the surreal, a teenage Murray growing up alongside touring rock stars, and the mundane realities of her mother running a working farm and studio simultaneously. It's a portrait of a very specific corner of music history seen from below stairs, which is what keeps it from reading as mere anecdote-collecting.