Who plays piano on Now I'm Here?

Not 'who do you 'think' plays piano on Now I'm Here', but who actually plays it?

Go.....

Peggy, the studio tea lady.

This is only "thinking".....but seems Freddie was the most proficient at the piano in the band, and with that style of playing, I'd believe he was the only one suited for it.

Sebastian says it's Brian: http://web.archive.org/web/20040629134711/http://sebastian.queenconcerts.com/nih.htm
(and Freddie on Hammond)

The piano sounds quite 'loose' to me, and not Freddie's usual metronomic and precise style, so I'd go with Brian too

Brian's Cat!

Brian did. He played on both NIH and DF.

Ha, I always knew that!

Les Dawson

Sebastian wrote:

Brian did. He played on both NIH and DF.

Dear Friends (if DF means Dear Friends) I have no doubt. Now I'm Here makes me think this may be just be just an opinion though...

I seem to remember Brian confirmed it was him on his soapbox about a decade ago.

mooghead wrote:

Dear Friends (if DF means Dear Friends) I have no doubt. Now I'm Here makes me think this may be just be just an opinion though...

Neither one can be a 100% confirmed fact as we've got no footage of Brian recording them (and even if we had, it could've easily been staged).

There's enough evidence (as opposed to 'opinion', 'speculation' or 'guesswork') to soundly state that Brian played on both songs, with a very minimal margin of error... minimal enough to be outright ignored.

'Evidence' can be... erm... evidenced. I am only seeing opinions... based on 'style'...

How do we even know Queen played their own instruments?

Lord Gaga wrote:

How do we even know Queen played their own instruments?

Exactly. There's no evidence for that.

How do we know those sounds are actually instruments? There's no evidence of that either!