"These Are The Days Of Our Lives" video shooting date

When Made In Heaven was first released, I read (somewhere...) that Mother Love was recorded in September, '91.

Now if I can only remember where I read that - Intl. Fan Club maybe?  I still have the issues from back then - will have to check sometime...

Everyone read that...everyone thought the same thing too, myself included. If you see Champions of the World, right about the time David Richards is talking/explaining about Made In Heaven, you see the paper as to when Mother Love was started, which was May of 1991, which destroyed all the rumors about it being recorded in Spetember of that year.

Another thing...not too long ago, I was listening to a David Richards interview from 2006, and he was saying that Freddie recorded about '4, possibly 5 songs' in that little time frame. Now there's AWT, which I'm thinking was recorded in early '91, You Don't Fool Me, which wasn't really a song supposedly, and Mother Love. That leaves a few more, does it not?

This is the interview I'm referring to by the way...it's a couple minutes in...

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=DaveRFuller#p/u/63/OJLm_x9ZWBk

When Roger said in the documentary that Freddie's voice was getting thinner and he could not reach some notes, maybe it mean it took a long time to record vocal parts of "AWT" and "ML". Freddie might have taken months to get a satisfactory take. Do not forget that he was a perfectionist.
 Brian said Mother Love was recorded line by line, which means they taken a while to finish just a little part of the song.

Maybe they have another songs in the vaults wich Freddie recorded in 91 but the vocals aren't in good quality (voice cracks and cannot reach some notes) and Freddie may have said to others to not use on a future album.

Brian has also said previously that the 4 of them pretty much lived in montreux for several months of 1991 and freddie would go into the studio whenever he felt well enough

From Jim Huttons book Freddie came back from montreux at the beginning of November but it seems that particular trip wasnt to do any vocals only for freddie to make a decision on stopping his meds

I still think he was maybe recording upto around September but i doubt Brian would give a definitive answer

When Roger said in the documentary that Freddie's voice was getting
thinner and he could not reach some notes, maybe it mean it took a long
time to record vocal parts of "AWT" and "ML". Freddie might have taken
months to get a satisfactory take. Do not forget that he was a
perfectionist.

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He said his voice was thinner "...but he could STILL hit the notes."

Brian stated in the documentary (Days of Our Lives - the new one) that they had each line of Mother Love sung by Freddie 3 times.

From Queenonline.com [section : albums -> Made in heaven]
"Freddie was later to comment that despite his increasing physical
deterioration, he was hugely thankful that his voice had somehow
remained !!unscathed!!. No-one disputes that one of rock music's greatest
and most powerful voices ever sounded better than on this last album."

I respect Roger's statement but I cannot agree with him. When I always listen to Mother Love, I hear "late 80s" Freddie, his voice in its richness.

I think Freddie's voice only got better as the years went on...during some of the tours, his voice was messed up at times, but we've already been down the road. I think the Barcelona project was a turning point for Freddie, vocal-wise. But can you honestly say that you could hear Freddie doing that middle-eight in Mother Love back in 1986? Or even the vocal part for The Show Must Go On in 1986? Not a chance. Freddie was a great singer even then, no doubt, but his range just got better and better with the years, even if it was an 'ailing voice'.

"But can you honestly say that you could hear Freddie doing that middle-eight in Mother Love back in 1986? Or even the vocal part for The Show Must Go On in 1986?"

Of course he could - but it would've been tonally different.  What people often perceive to be Freddie losing/gaining range is really only a change in tone.  Even in 1984, when you could make the strongest case for him 'losing range', he was still capable of hitting the same notes - it just sounded different.  

Every note in Mother Love or Show Must Go On had been equaled (or surpassed) by our man Mercury, before those songs were recorded.  Having said that, the songs would've obviously sounded different if they'd been done 5, 10, or 20 years earlier.

I think Roger was right to an extent. Freddie's voice did sound thinner, but only on certain songs.

I thought he was the same old Freddie on everything on The Miracle, personally.

Certain songs on Innuendo, his voice sounded a little thinner definitely. The Hitman, TATDOOL, Delilah..
But curiously, Innuendo and Show Must Go On sound like the same old Freddie to me again. I dunno if he was just having good days while recording those or gave them a little more effort.

As for Made in Heaven, obviously he sounded very frail in a Winter's Tale, You don't fool me etc. But funnily enough, as someone else mentioned, Mother Love sounded amazing vocally, and that was the last one he recorded.

Either way, he a vocal monster right 'till the end.

These are the days of our lives
Recorded:30th may 91 and 1th june 91

"Roger said in the documentary that Freddie's voice was getting thinner and he could not reach some notes"


When did he say that?
I think wat he said is " I can hear the ailing voice altought HE STILL HITS THE NOTES".
I am refering to Days of our lives documentary.

[QUOTE] [b]STELIOS wrote:[/b]
"Roger said in the documentary that Freddie's voice was getting thinner and he could not reach some notes"
When did he say that?
I think wat he said is " I can hear the ailing voice altought HE STILL HITS THE NOTES".
I am refering to Days of our lives documentary.[/QUOTE]

He said: "I can hear the voice is getting thinner." Then says it was an ailing voice but still hits the notes!

These Are the Days of Our Lives
clip was filmed in May and early June 1991

The last song he wrote was Freddie and Winter's Tale, which was in January 1991.
And according to Brian May's mother was the last love curls in June 1991 and October or in November 1991 I told Freddie to not feel that now I have to take a break and come back and finish it eventually returned.