Made in Heaven (single - Queen version)

Looking it up it seems as if the title track from the 1995 album was never released as a single, at least in the UK. Listening to the album it's probably the most obviously 'commercial' record on it with the added bonus of being the title track with the extra added bonus of the rather 'prophetic' impact the song would have had having been released at the time.

I know it was released as a single a few years earlier as a solo project but I was still surprised to learn the single never got it's own release as the titular track on the album. I think had it been given that exposure it would have become one of the biggest hits, probably even number 1.

It also seems odd to go to the trouble of re-working the song just to have it as an album track

Most of the songs on the album were old things that were reworked in some way. Not sure why this track stands out in that regard.

Still one of my faves.

I think it maybe was considered as a single. Some of the European posters said "Including Heaven For Everyone, A Winter's Tale and Made In Heaven" if I'm not mistaken.

My poster says "Includes Made In Heaven and A Winters Tale.

I think it was an excellent choice to NOT make singles out of the two solo tracks. You wouldn't want to put too much emphasis on the fact that you are reworking solo material to scrape together enough tracks for a full album...

Not to mention that they went overboard in their Queenifying, and made the songs sound more like fan remixes than actual Queen songs.

I think the band did a really good job with the solo projects, but i believe I Was Born To Love You would have been a bigger hit, potentially number one if it was released ahead of Heaven For Everyone, which for me is a pretty average song and got to no. 2 mostly on the fact it was Queen's first single since TATDOOL

if I recall correctly, "Made in Heaven" was to be the final single released off the album, woulda had a 12" picture disc, etc but was dropped in favor of "You Don't Fool Me" when that song started catching on in dance clubs.

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I think the band did a really good job with the solo projects, but i believe I Was Born To Love You would have been a bigger hit, potentially number one if it was released ahead of Heaven For Everyone, which for me is a pretty average song and got to no. 2 mostly on the fact it was Queen's first single since TATDOOL[/QUOTE]


Heaven For Everyone, is perhaps one of Queen's best songs! It can suffer from the key it's in (C) but it has a certain feel to it and even Roger speaking about the song acknowledged it's only when you hear Freddie Mercury sing the song you realise how much further and to a different level he could take it.

It has one of those mysterious Queen feels to it, perfect listening to after some Queen II, a different era a more mature sound.

I Was Born to Love You is a good song, don't think it'd have done any better than releasing Made In Heaven, but who knows!

"Heaven For Everyone" did cause bit of a stir at the time (in the negative sense), because the album had been billed as containing 'unreleased' recordings, and then the first single turns out to be a re-worked solo number. I remember quite vividly the day Jack Gunn appeared on the BBC 5Live breakfast show to defend the band.

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I think the band did a really good job with the solo projects, but i believe I Was Born To Love You would have been a bigger hit, potentially number one if it was released ahead of Heaven For Everyone, which for me is a pretty average song and got to no. 2 mostly on the fact it was Queen's first single since TATDOOL[/QUOTE]
i fail to see how you can deem HFE and it's highest chart position (no2) as average?
if you look at the queen catalogue HFE is in pretty repesctable company - Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Champions/Rock You, Crazy little Thing & GaGa all peaked at no2.
also, you're suggesting that - for a band past its commercial peak - you feel that IWBTLY would've reached No1...something that (until Freddie's death) they'd only achieved three times

(UK chart placings)

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I think the band did a really good job with the solo projects, but i believe I Was Born To Love You would have been a bigger hit, potentially number one if it was released ahead of Heaven For Everyone, which for me is a pretty average song and got to no. 2 mostly on the fact it was Queen's first single since TATDOOL[/QUOTE]
i fail to see how you can deem HFE and it's highest chart position (no2) as average?
if you look at the queen catalogue HFE is in pretty repesctable company - Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Champions/Rock You, Crazy little Thing & GaGa all peaked at no2.
also, you're suggesting that - for a band past its commercial peak - you feel that IWBTLY would've reached No1...something that (until Freddie's death) they'd only achieved three times

(UK chart placings)
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I agree, I think Heaven For Everyone is up there with Queen's best, especially as an alternative to the better known songs. Wish it got played on the radio!

My initial reaction to HFE on MIH was that I didn't like it nearly as much as the original (album) version. But it's grown on me - probably because of Brian's guitaring. But I still prefer the original.

[quote]i fail to see how you can deem HFE and it's highest chart position (no2) as average?
if you look at the queen catalogue HFE is in pretty repesctable company - Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Champions/Rock You, Crazy little Thing & GaGa all peaked at no2.
also, you're suggesting that - for a band past its commercial peak - you feel that IWBTLY would've reached No1...something that (until Freddie's death) they'd only achieved three times

(UK chart placings)[/quote]

I said i felt the song was average, not the charting position. However, I felt that the band had a good chance of getting to number one with their 'comeback' single in 1995, as most of the sales would have stemmed from nostalgia, and i think 'I Was Born To Love You', was more of the kind of 'Queen' upbeat, catchy song the audience would expect/enjoy rather than the slightly different/mellow sound of HFE.

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[b]Supersonic_Man89 wrote: [/b] I said i felt the song was average, not the charting position. However, I felt that the band had a good chance of getting to number one with their 'comeback' single in 1995, as most of the sales would have stemmed from nostalgia, and i think 'I Was Born To Love You', was more of the kind of 'Queen' upbeat, catchy song the audience would expect/enjoy rather than the slightly different/mellow sound of HFE.
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ok. i'll humour you.
righto. on the basis of queen having a better chance of a No1 hit with your so-called "queen upbeat catchy song the audience would expect"

their previous No1s - Bo Rhap, UP, Innuendo and TATDOOL - none are upbeat and only UP is what you'd call a singalong/catchy song

Could, shoulda,woulda, but didn't.