“The Queen version was put together as a ‘virtual’ live track, using Freddie’s spectacular vocal as the central thread,” added May. In 1995, the remaining members of Queen re-worked “I Was Born to Love You” for the Made in Heaven album, adding new instrumental parts to the original vocals, and transforming the disco-influenced track into a hit rock song. May agreed with Mercury’s evaluation and said he was “obsessed” with creating a new Queen version of the former song after Mercury’s death in November 1991.
A CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE LYRICS ELVIS PRESLEY FULL
He said they were both very personal songs, full of strong emotions. Mercury said writing about love was “actually limitless” and he believed that two of his most treasured love songs – “I Was Born to Love You” and “Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow” – were from his 1985 solo album Mr. I like an audience to respond like that.” I didn’t have to tell them: they just automatically knew their role. “Wherever we did ‘Love of My Life,’ the crowd instinctively knew that they had to sing it,” said Mercury.
The pair transformed the song for live versions, with Mercury often just singing solo with May playing a 12-string guitar. The studio version reflected Mercury’s classical music influences and featured May on harp (“I remember thinking, ‘I’m going to force him to play until his fingers drop off!’” Mercury later joked). “It’s fair to say she was the love of Freddie’s life,” said May. It is believed to be about his former lover Mary Austin. One of his most haunting break-up songs was “Love of My Life,” from the album Night at the Opera. I just want to put myself across in my songs in the best way I can,” Mercury said, quoted in the book Freddie Mercury: A Life in His Own Words. I think that’s my natural gift, so that’s all I want to do in my songs. “I go through torture and pain in terms of love. Although there are more famous Queen love songs, “Funny How Love Is” captures the innocence and optimism of the band at the start of their journey. “Funny How Love Is” was sung in demanding high-register vocals, which was the reason Mercury declined to sing the song in live shows. “That album was when we first really got into production, and went completely over the top,” commented Taylor. It started out, in the first five takes, as a piano-led acoustic song, and evolved into a “wall of sound” track via Mercury’s friend and producer Robin Cable. “Funny How Love Is,” though, was a sunny, optimistic reflection on how love is omnipresent (“love is anywhere you’re bound to be”). When a son isn’t worthy of his father’s legacy, what can he do to redeem himself? Read Honorable Drug Lord to find out.Mercury’s attitude to writing about love changed over the years, from the optimism of “Funny How Love Is” (from their second album Queen II) to the mid-1980s, when he was writing edgy songs about love being dangerous and referring in interviews to his own love life as similar to a game of Russian roulette. This thing called love, I just can’t handle it… Old parents, a wife, two children, and three subsequent girlfriends, no mercy, no compassion, just accusing fingers raised in my direction.Ī man’s usefulness only remains till he can satisfy the needs of others. My faults were recounted, brought to my notice, and I was evicted from hearts, warned to never return.
It kept me alive when others insisted I should be dead. His lyrics could bring a person to their knees, that baritone voice a miracle of faith.Īnd I’ve clung to his music like a newborn clings to its mother’s chest. It hurts me to see those tears in your eyes.Įlvis knew what he sang. A record player the only companion that bothered to stay. This porch has been my haven for twelve years.
Something you try to roll away, but it rolls back bigger in size, and messier than ever.
Heartache, loneliness, regrets, misconceptions, all twined into a big ball of mess. But this song makes me wonder whether legends are just extraordinary people with ordinary problems.
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