All God's People

Well, Mike Moran told me about the second Freddie album.
I give more credibility to Mike Moran than Greg Brooks (a workman of Jim Beach).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTn2firi1Ks

Minute 8:30 or so, Mike Moran talks about the second solo album, blocked by Barcelona recordings..

That a 2nd solo album was started was never in dispute. It's all explained in boxed set. That album project was overtaken by Barcelona. Africa By Night, as noted in the quote above, was an idea developed during the Barcelona sessions, after the solo album idea was abandoned. All of the demos and outtakes that appear in The Solo Collection are dated, based on information recorded on the tracking sheets and labels for the tapes they went through compiling the set. If it's noted that Africa By Night was a Barcelona-era track (not a pre-Barcelona-era track, as you claim), I trust that comes from looking at the dates ABN was worked on, which would clearly establish if it was pre- or during the Barcelona sessions.

Well, let me explain better.
If I said was pre barcelona, it was my mistake. If I remember well, Mike Moran told me African By Night was for the FM second album, not for Barcelona record.

If that's the case, The Solo Collection's description I quoted is unclear on this point. And as it's the only official mention of the track, so I hope it's understandable where I was coming from. That quote places it amongst the Barcelona sessions. You say Mike Moran claims it pre-dated Barcelona and was meant for what was going to be the second solo album. I don't doubt your claim, or Mr. Moran, but the only way we'll definitely know is if "Africa By Night"'s recording dates or a more precise description of the recording of the song is ever given.

I think we'd all love to more from Mike!

Hi rhyeking.
I heard again the audio of the interview with Mike.
He told me the first song they wrote for the second solo album was All Good's People, before known as African By Night (he told me was a working title only Africa By Night). He didn't say they recorded before, only they composed before Barcelona sessions. And later, after Barcelona, Queen liked All Good's people and finished as a Queen song for Innuendo.

It's interesting that the track uses either Freddie's lead vocals circa 1987 or at least vocals recorded early in the Innuendo sessions (I lean towards the former) up to a point, then it appears that he finishes the track with then-current Innuendo era lead vocals.

The change in tone is audible beginning with the " then I, then I,...." section after the bridge.

rhyeking wrote:

And as it's the only official mention of the track

Official liner notes have been wrong in the past, and the people writing them have made many mistakes ranging from understandable to embarrassing, all of which have escaped copy-editors, proof-readers and fact-checkers (if they even exist to begin with).

Right Sebastian.
In Barcelona box set 2012 the text by Rhys Thomas has mistakes, for example.

Sebastian wrote:

rhyeking wrote:

And as it's the only official mention of the track

Official liner notes have been wrong in the past, and the people writing them have made many mistakes ranging from understandable to embarrassing, all of which have escaped copy-editors, proof-readers and fact-checkers (if they even exist to begin with).

Of course, but until this thread, I had no reason to doubt the claim. I tend to assume such new info is accurate until I see compelling evidence to the contrary. While researching the Chronology, I had to weigh a lot of conflicting official accounts, more than one would expect there to be.

Is there a record of the Mike Moran interview I can read, view, or listen to? Again, not that I think it's wrong, I just want to see it for myself so I can quote it later if need be.

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