'Made in Heaven' timeline

I'm 100% sure that the whole 'The Miracle' Capitol Records advance cassette has the same mixes of all songs but two. Scandal has unique slightly shorter mix with louder intro.
'Yes, you're loving on and out again' line wasn't used. BTW, this line is absent in the lyrics sheet on 'The Miracle' album, but was restored for final mix.

I Want It All is the alternate mix which was later used on 1991 US CD reissue, but unfortunately the outro was faded out earlier there than on the advance cassette.

TMLWKY from MIH is the same mix as on this 1989 advance cassette and, as I understand, the same as on 'The Miracle' U-matic master. Actually this track sounds different to all other MIH tracks, especially the drums sound which is equal to acoustic drums sound on 'The Miracle' album. I mean any processing of them as well.

[QUOTE] [b]Golden Salmon wrote:[/b]

Perhaps it's been mentioned in this thread, but do we know when the vocal takes of TMLWKY and A Winter's Tale were recorded?[/QUOTE]

TMLWKY is from The Miracle sessions in 1988.

AWT was recorded on May 10, 1991.

[QUOTE] [b]IanR wrote:[/b]

The evidence suggests that some MBG tracks were in the running as early as 1992, given that 'The Freddie Mercury Album' had a number of rather startling omissions ('Born To Love You' being chief among them). The only reason I can fathom is that certain songs on MBG were vetoed by Jim Beach or the band, with half an eye on the 'final' Queen album. Another possibility is that Fred himself may have given his bandmates carte blanche to re-work his solo output, and identified particular songs he thought could be given the 'Queen' treatment.

Whatever the case, the following songs were left off 'The Freddie Mercury Album / Great Pretender' compilations:

Made In Heaven
I Was Born To Love You
Man Made Paradise
There Must Be More To Life Than This
Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow

The first two appeared in re-worked form on MIH, while of course 'Paradise' and TMBMTLTT started life under the Queen banner. What's the betting that at least some of these three remaining tracks were considered and then discarded for the Made In Heaven project?[/QUOTE]

Excellent discussion point.

The things we'll probably never know. But you're definitely on the scent by highlighting these five tracks.

[QUOTE] [b]cmi wrote:[/b]

I'm 100% sure that the whole 'The Miracle' Capitol Records advance cassette has the same mixes of all songs but two. Scandal has unique slightly shorter mix with louder intro.
'Yes, you're loving on and out again' line wasn't used. BTW, this line is absent in the lyrics sheet on 'The Miracle' album, but was restored for final mix.[/QUOTE]

Great observation - I never noticed that.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

AWT was recorded on May 10, 1991.
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To be exact, 10th of May was when the final vocal was compiled (presumably from existing takes which long predated this session). The actual recording process (Frederick's bit at least - both synthesisers and vocals) may have very well been in winter.

As for 'Too Much Love', back in Summer 1988 there were news about Brian writing material with Frank and Elizabeth. Odds are, this was the one (complete) number that came out of those creative sessions.

Could somebody please share the 1989 mix of TMLWKY?

Besides the request, I think it would be cool if CMI included it in his The Miracle (Expanded Collection). It would represent perfectly how the song could have sounded in that album.

I'd kill for an in-depth documentary about this period of the band. Starting from the FM Tribute up to and including TSMGO with Elton.

[QUOTE] [b]BETA215 wrote:[/b]

Could somebody please share the 1989 mix of TMLWKY?

Besides the request, I think it would be cool if CMI included it in his The Miracle (Expanded Collection). It would represent perfectly how the song could have sounded in that album.[/QUOTE]

As I wrote earlier I'm sure that TMLWKY on 1989 'The Miracle' Capitol advance cassette is the same mix as on 1995 MIH CD so I don't see the reason to feature tape cassette source instead of official MIH CD source.

[QUOTE] [b]cmi wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]BETA215 wrote:[/b]

Could somebody please share the 1989 mix of TMLWKY?

Besides the request, I think it would be cool if CMI included it in his The Miracle (Expanded Collection). It would represent perfectly how the song could have sounded in that album.[/QUOTE]

As I wrote earlier I'm sure that TMLWKY on 1989 'The Miracle' Capitol advance cassette is the same mix as on 1995 MIH CD so I don't see the reason to feature tape cassette source instead of official MIH CD source.[/QUOTE]

It is.

Bumped considering the 'Too Much Love' discussion going on elsewhere.

'The Complete Illustrated Lyrics' has handwritten lyrics for 'Let Me Live' (just Freddie's verse), which date back to 1981 and the Hot Space sessions.

That's true too!

“How can I go On”, if memory serves me well, was also strangely (in my personal opinion though) from that Album (“The Freddie Mercury Album”).
I never understood it, considering “Barcelona” was in it and it was somewhat of a hit, certainly more of a hit than some of the MBG songs on the album.
Now that very likely has nothing to do with MIH, considering the style of the song and the fact that it features Monserrat, unlike the other songs mentioned by IanR . Even though, it does feature John on Bass and it should have been in that Freddie “hits” album.

Also, it’s curious that they didn’t consider “Love Kills” for MIH, since it was “almost” a Queen song from the get go, and Brian has mentioned on interviews that Jim Beach always reminded them to consider that song as something they could potentially make it work for Queen.

Probably wouldn't fit the 'theme' of the album, though they did have something fast and simple with 'You Don't Fool Me'. Also, considering he'd died of AIDS-related bronchopneumonia, releasing a song titled 'Love Kills' would've probably been deemed too soon. In 2015, it didn't matter anymore.

Edit: Then again, they did have 'Too Much Love Will Kill You'...