Julio: The Unsung Story / Daphne Lockyer.

To the fans who adore him, Julio Iglesias is the ultimate Conquistador. A conqueror who knows no frontiers, he has captured the hearts and minds of audiences all over the world and has become the highest-selling recording artist of all time. Wealthy beyond imagination, Julio displays all the eccentricities of the superrich. Houses, cars, private planes, and numerous women have been at his disposal. But fame and success have come at a price, and the star often cuts a solitary and desperate figure. He is a man of two faces. The public face he bares willingly, the private he guards obsessively -- wishing to hide the more troubling aspects of a life that even modern filmmakers might call farfetched. That story is a rich tapestry of shade and light -- of love and hate, of loss and gain, of triumph and defeat. It encompasses the days when a spinal tumor left Iglesias paralyzed for two years, the bleak days after his divorce, the horror of his father's kidnapping by Basque terrorists, and the depression and despair that led to his long dark night of the soul. It is, however, in other ways, a story of sunshine, suntan, and happiness-of good times and phenomenal success. It is the ultimate and bittersweet tale of wine, women, and song. In her comprehensive biography of this multifaceted man, Daphne Lockyer has had unprecedented access to the people who know him best-including his father, ex-wife, childhood friends, and the manager who put him on the road to fame and engineered his success over a period of fifteen years. The result is a deeply fascinating insight into Julio Iglesias-the man, the music, the mystery, the legend.