All God's People - earlier vocal than the rest of Innuendo?

I've been listening to the 2011 Remaster of Innuendo. Great album of course.

I'm always quite taken aback by how fragile Freddie sounds on the album compared to The Miracle (while he hits the notes of course.)

On All God's People, he sounds like the earlier more powerful Freddie right up until the part where he comes in with "Rule with your heart and live with your conscience" where he suddenly sounds thin again.

Are the majority of the vocals on that track a carry over from the Barcelona sessions?

They could well be - the track was originally slated for inclusion on Barcelona and was written, and certainly worked on at that time by Freddie and Mike Moran.

I think this topic had been discussed on this forum before and I remember someone saying vocals were only partly "new". Not sure if Freddie sounds fragile on the whole album though, but TATDOUL is certainly an example of that.

[QUOTE] [b]JohnH wrote:[/b]

I've been listening to the 2011 Remaster of Innuendo. Great album of course.

I'm always quite taken aback by how fragile Freddie sounds on the album compared to The Miracle (while he hits the notes of course.)

On All God's People, he sounds like the earlier more powerful Freddie right up until the part where he comes in with "Rule with your heart and live with your conscience" where he suddenly sounds thin again.

Are the majority of the vocals on that track a carry over from the Barcelona sessions?[/QUOTE]



You have excellent hearing, if you noticed a difference in vocal on one song.
Bravo!
Not sarcasm.

Now that you mention it, Freddi'es voice in the "this magic light" bridge sounds more "Innuendo-like" -more nasal- than the intro/verses, which seem more powerful, full-on chest voice. I could be imagining things, though.

This never occurred to me, but indeed it does seem like some of the vocals could pre-date the Innuendo sessions.

[QUOTE] [b]Wiley wrote:[/b]

Now that you mention it, Freddi'es voice in the "this magic light" bridge sounds more "Innuendo-like" -more nasal- than the intro/verses, which seem more powerful, full-on chest voice. I could be imagining things, though.[/QUOTE]

You're not, there is a noticeable difference throughout the song.

I've always thought that too. Also, if you check the original 'The Miracle' tracklist, 'All God's People' was going to be there, so easily the song could have been recorded during 'The Miracle' sessions, or at least, a major part of it.

LINK: http://www.rogertaylorofficial.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/125.jpg

All God's people started as a part of his Barcelona project under the name Africa By Night. It was recorded at the time of Barcelona but left over and evolved into All God's People.


From Wikipedia:
"All God's People" started off as part of Mercury's Barcelona project under the title "Africa by Night" (hence the co-writing credit with Mike Moran). He'd asked May to play guitar, then one thing led to another and the entire band played. Piano was recorded by Moran. The song features Mercury singing a chest-voiced F5, his highest sustained full-voice note, as well as some very low notes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innuendo_%28album%29#All_God.27s_People

Other links:
http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/freddie-mercury/songs/unreleased-songs-and-demos.htm#Africa%20By%20Night

Hope it helps.

Mike Moran said it began as a demo called African By Night for the second solo record by Freddie. Barcelona's record cancelled the idea of this second solo record.

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[b]C_Matt wrote: [/b] I've always thought that too. Also, if you check the original 'The Miracle' tracklist, 'All God's People' was going to be there, so easily the song could have been recorded during 'The Miracle' sessions, or at least, a major part of it.

LINK: [url=http://www.rogertaylorofficial.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/125.jpg]http://www.rogertaylorofficial.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/125.jpg[/url][/QUOTE]

Thank you for this post. I was unaware they shared sketches and old album track lists

*the people, .... bloody bastard government. ..

We shall fight them on the dirty beaches?  Etc. .."

Has any if this become a Roger Taylor song?

[QUOTE] [b]RafaelSomma wrote:[/b]

All God's people started as a part of his Barcelona project.[/QUOTE]

No, it didn't. It started before the Barcelona project, was chiefly developed parallel to (but not in) the Barcelona project and possibly finished off (probably including some overdubs and tweaks) after the Barcelona project.

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