For a while, I thought that "You win," in It's a Hard Life was sung by Roger. I also thought "Then I'll get you," in Seven Seas of Rhye was Roger.
Also, I hope I'm not the only one who thought "No, I just think I'm two steps nearer to my grave," in KYA is Roger and not Brian for a long time.
j0ck3 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]waunakonor wrote:[/b]
Also, I hope I'm not the only one who thought "No, I just think I'm two steps nearer to my grave," in KYA is Roger ad ot Brian for a long time.[/QUOTE]
I swear if I didn't always know it was Brian I would have said it's Roger making a silly voice.
Compared to any other song they do lead vocals on this part just sounds so off. I mean Roger sounds like Roger during the part he sings in Doin' All Right.
vicspec · Member since
3:48 of I Cry For You is clearly Fred in there. Can't hear the first one though.. With this and Killing Time they must have been some of the tracks that started for The Works.
Rick · Member since
We all have a bit of Freddie inside us. It's destined.
clauverg · Member since
It's very strange because Brian sings harmony in higher notes also in different lines of the song (for example "to the horizon wide" at 44'') but "it's dead ahead of you" line is the only one with that Freddie-like voice. I'd like to think it's a last gift to a friend...
Wiley · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]clauverg wrote:[/b]
It's very strange because Brian sings harmony in higher notes also in different lines of the song (for example "to the horizon wide" at 44'') but "it's dead ahead of you" line is the only one with that Freddie-like voice. I'd like to think it's a last gift to a friend...[/QUOTE]
I think it's coincidental. Some lines sound slightly different, one happened to sound a bit like Freddie, but I do like your "last gift to a friend" idea. Could it be the other way around? Brian making a nod to Freddie.
He purposedly did it with his piano playing in NOBY. He played it on Freddie's "percussive" style. Brian's is more polished and subtle.
clauverg · Member since
I listened over and over again and my opinion remains the same: Freddie sing the "dead ahead of you" line.
Obiovsly I don't have evidence, only speculation (other that what my ears listen).
But here's some facts:
1) Driven By You was released on 6 November 1991 and was recorded and mixed with David Richards co-producing at Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland, 1991
2) In the same time, in the same studio there were the session recording of A Winter’s Tale (January-February) and Mother Love (end of May- mid October)
3) Freddie knows the song. From a 1993 interview: "He never succumbed in spirit," Brian says. "He was always up. He always had his sense of humor, which I find incredible. He was the first to say, 'Hey, I don't want you guys to sit around. This may be happening to me, but you have your lives to lead.' I played him 'Driven by You' when I had it at the demo stage, and I said, 'Do you fancy singing it?' And he said, 'No, no, you do a perfectly good job. Go for it and get out there.' When I was about to put it out as a single quite a few months later, I said, 'You sure you're all right about this, Fred? I'm not sure how tasteful it is for me to put this out at this point in your life'—me putting out this very jolly single and getting on with my solo career while he was wasting away. He said, 'Why should you do anything else?' And he said, 'If I pop off while it's happening, it'll give you an extra bit of publicity.'
Freddie states that he don't want sing the song but couldn't sing one line?
Mr.QueenFan · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]pietrek1994 wrote:[/b]
Here are all of Freddie's vocal leaks on other tracks:
The Brian and Anita duet it´s really hard to tell because it´s too buried in te mix. But that intonation in the "yeahh" sounds more like Roger than Freddie, but who knows? I think it´s really hard to tell.
The "i cry for you" doesn´t seem like Freddie either.
Now, the "Killing Time" it sounds like Freddie. First i thought that it was a sample from "In the Lap of the god´s (reprise) or from "Made In Heaven (extended version)", but it could be that Freddie did some vocals just for Roger.
On Brian´s "Driven by you", it´s just Brian singing his harmonies.
Wiley · Member since
Today, the only one that still makes me say "IT'S GOTTA BE FREDDIE!" is "I cry for you". Not just the vocal choirs but a couple of BVs and second voices as well. For instance, when Roger sings "and we're treading the same old fears..."
Heavenite · Member since
The Driven By You line is definitely Brian singing harmonies. Pity though as I like the "gift to a friend" idea floated here. But I'm sure it's wrong unfortunately.
mooghead · Member since
Why would Freddie turn up to a recording session to sing 1 line of harmony on a BM solo record?
