Mack in Rome 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdw6Tecd-ko

Some interesting details:

* 'Stop All the Fighting' was begun in Montreux.

* There's a date for 'I Go Crazy': 20th December 1982.

* 'Streets' (working title of UP) at the Power Station: 9th November (or maybe 11th September considering it was America).

* According to Mack, the reason he didn't produce 'The Miracle' or 'Innuendo' was that Freddie didn't want Mack and his family to see him deteriorate.

So they were in the studio in December '82 after 'Hot Space' World Tour?

According to that, yeah.

TBF, it could've been just Brian, or just Maylor, and it wasn't necessarily Munich (or was it?).

Mack can talk openly about a lot of things Maylor or others doesn't want to be public.

Begun in Montreux, meaning Stop All The Fighting was originally a Queen song?

Not necessarily, but perhaps.

Yes Darko ! Mack is a good source for details like that ( of course he could disrembering too - no one is flawless). I like the open way he talks about Bowie, Cocaine, Queen guys( all three of them) cheating their wifes etc.

Hmm, intresting! Thank you for this news.

I was trying to hear what he said about the Tribute Concert...something about why he didn't want any part to do with it, but couldn't make out his reason why

Respect for those who made it through the whole video. Those Italians don't know when to shut up :D

Interesting, too, that 'Hold On' was apparently mixed on January 7, 1987. There's so little information about that song that it's good to know at least a little bit.

And I wonder if that 20/12/82 date was actually supposed to be '81? It seems odd to me that, considering the tensions surrounding the '82 Hot Space tour, the band would go back into the studio so soon to start recording again.

[QUOTE] [b]Lord Gaga wrote:[/b]

considering the tensions surrounding the '82 Hot Space tour, the band would go back into the studio so soon to start recording again.[/QUOTE]

Tensions were mostly between Freddie and the others. Sessions could've easily been Brian, John and Roger, or maybe just Brian (drum-machine-aided), and the song would've been finished off a year later.

@ 9:24 sec:

Interesting insight about "Let me live". I never thought about that duet with Rod Stewart as a love song in the type of Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton "We've Got Tonight", so to speak. Maybe they have changed the lyrics for the MIH version, because there´s not "I love you´s" like Mack said (or he was just generalizing the feeling of the song?). But really, this is the first time i´m having such perspective on this song.

Either way, i still think it would work great between Rod and Freddie, and they would look cute in the video also :-)

[QUOTE] [b]Lord Gaga wrote:[/b]

And I wonder if that 20/12/82 date was actually supposed to be '81? It seems odd to me that, considering the tensions surrounding the '82 Hot Space tour, the band would go back into the studio so soon to start recording again.[/QUOTE]

Indeed. Or maybe it was the band minus Mercury just working on the backing track?

I'd definitely date the vocal as 1983. Mercury's voice is raspier, and sounds much more like it did on The Works.

We know the backing track was worked on to some extent in 1982 (at least, according to Greg Brooks at a fan convention), but I'd say Mercury's vocal is from 1983.

Well, Mack sometimes can confuse in dates and things like that, but in general, he open honestly about he lives with them.
See the credits of A kind of Magic and you know who were Mack's friends in Queen. The real tension was with one member, the other the relationship was ok.
Hold On was a gift from Freddie to Mack. Mack was recording Jo Dare, Freddie appeard to gave a cacke, Mack was working in that song with Jo Dare, and Freddie said, I would sing that.
As Spike said, something simmilar happen to Heaven for Everyone.