This morning, while driving to work, I started listening to the new Daft Punk album (fantastic, imo) and then came the 3rd track with Giorgio Moroder, a great tune by the way: "Giorgio By Moroder".
Of course "Love Kills" came to mind and started thinking that I couldn´t remember that much information being available regarding the proper collaboration between Freddie and Moroder.
The story behind the track, being a Queen project that ended up being Freddie´s first solo release, is well known. But do you know any additional information regarding how much input did Moroder have in the creation of the final song? Or are there any interviews of Freddie talking about Moroder or viceversa? About their work together in the studio, etc etc ?
thanks !
Vali
Thanks for bringing it up. There's a lot of talk about Moroder in the UK lately and I'm curious about it too. Sorry for not adding much to the discussion though ;)
Giorgio by Moroder is a great track indeed. Absolutely killer!
'I Feel Love' could have been made yesterday. Genius.
Moroder/Queen? Not so good.
I had made a similar post about a year ago . But there was no additional information added becouse nobody knew. Let's hope this time we learn something ...
Sparks and Moroder made quite a trio.
As you know, Love Kills was part of a soundtrack album for a Moroder remake of Fritz Lang's classic movie Metropolis.Moroder decided he wanted contemporary artists for the soundtrack, but he and lyricist Pete Bellotte wrote all songs except Love Kills which was written by Freddie.
The link between Freddie and Moroder may well have been Mack, who produced a few other tracks on the album besides Love Kills.The whole deal was probably negotiated through the mutual business representatives, and I suspect Freddie and Moroder may have never met in person. So apart from Freddie writing and performing a song for Moroder's album (and Moroder probably having the final say on whether Love Kills was a "go" or "no go"), it might not have been much of a collaboration at all. Freddie wrote the song, recorded it in Munich probably using his own musicians, and delivered the song. If anyone knows more, I'd be very interested.
The extended mix of 'Love Kills' features the same dramatic synth chord (DSC) and marimba playing (M) found on 'It's An Illusion' (M), 'Strange Frontier' (M), 'Killing Time' (DSC), and the extended mix of 'Keep Passing the Open Windows' (M) & (DSC).
So Roger was very likely to have been involved, as well as Brian, and possibly John.
[QUOTE] [b]IanR wrote:[/b]
The extended mix of 'Love Kills' features the same dramatic synth chord (DSC) and marimba playing (M) found on 'It's An Illusion' (M), 'Strange Frontier' (M), 'Killing Time' (DSC), and the extended mix of 'Keep Passing the Open Windows' (M) & (DSC).
So Roger was very likely to have been involved, as well as Brian, and possibly John.[/QUOTE]
Unless of course the DMC (great term!) and marimba came from Roger's producer David Richards.
[QUOTE] [b]Fireplace wrote:[/b]
As you know, Love Kills was part of a soundtrack album for a Moroder remake of Fritz Lang's classic movie Metropolis.Moroder decided he wanted contemporary artists for the soundtrack, but he and lyricist Pete Bellotte wrote all songs except Love Kills which was written by Freddie.
The link between Freddie and Moroder may well have been Mack, who produced a few other tracks on the album besides Love Kills.The whole deal was probably negotiated through the mutual business representatives, and I suspect Freddie and Moroder may have never met in person. So apart from Freddie writing and performing a song for Moroder's album (and Moroder probably having the final say on whether Love Kills was a "go" or "no go"), it might not have been much of a collaboration at all. Freddie wrote the song, recorded it in Munich probably using his own musicians, and delivered the song. If anyone knows more, I'd be very interested. [/QUOTE]
If Freddie wrote, delivered and used his own musicians what exactly did Moroder do?
Except by wrote you mean "lyrics only" so the music composition goes to Moroder.
But then again it is rumored that Love Kills was initially a Freddie idea/project that never fruitioned within Queen.And i doubt it was just a "lyric-idea".
So Moroder did just the production?
My understanding of it was that Queen wanted to use Metropolis footage for Radio Ga Ga. Moroder somehow had the rights, as he was re-releasing the film with contemporary music, and Love Kills was the trade-off: you give us footage for Radio Ga Ga, and we'll give you Love Kills.
Apparently Moroder IS credited for the music of Love Kills, although on my CD copy it just says "written by Freddie Mercury". Now I can't imagine Freddie writing words only, since he always claimed lyrics were hard to write for him. So perhaps Moroder added some parts, maybe the synth solo, and shared writing credits with Freddie. The trade-off story is true and well documented, the rest will, unfortunately, remain conjecture. .
I can't remember where I read it, (maybe from Peter Freestone?) but Moroder had very little say in any of the writing of the song, and I think a stipulation for getting the Metropolis footage was that he received a co-credit on Love Kills.
Mack was a producer who worked for GM. When GM worked with Sparks for their late 70s disco album Number One In Heaven he eventually handed them to Mack for the more rock things after that (check Whomp That Sucker - identical in sound to The Game and recorded pretty much back to back at the same studio) Also note the Sparks t shirt visible in the One Vision video. Small world!
