Let me in (your heart again)

Well it's not like they'd need to be able to remember what they did in 1983, they'd just need to know what they added a couple of months ago.

Nice one @tomchristie22 :-)

I gave Anita's version another listen to last night.

There seems to be more of a 'warmth' and 'fullness' in Brian's guitar sound than on the new release. Can only speculate that he was forced to simulate the tone as close as possible to the original due to 'leakage' and the inability to erase the original guitar.

Unlike the MIH tracks, maybe it was done to sound a bit more like the era of when it was created. Just speculation.

All of Brian's guitar sound in that span sounds, or was mixed, rather 'cold' to my ears.

actually Freddie does sing some of the backing vocals about a minute in, but that's all.

miraclesteinway wrote:

actually Freddie does sing some of the backing vocals about a minute in, but that's all.

Ah, you're right

I wish that Freddie sang more in that free style. He did it more in the '70s, especially on Somebody To Love, for instance.

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Wiley wrote:

I like it. It could have easily been on The Works as it's just as good/bad as Open Windows, Treat it up or Man on the Prowl. I can see some resemblance with the main chord structure of Hammer to Fall but I would besurprised if that even played a part on it being shelved.
On the resemblance I'm referring to the whole A - D/A Brian-esque cliche also used on Tear it up, AKOM, WWRY, it's late, etc. Although Let me in its not on the same key you can feel the same vibe and it kinda resembles a slightly slower version of HTF during the outtro.

That 'cliche' you're talking about was hardly original with Brian............listen to Start Me Up or Crazy Train (the same chords!)

Bang on, guys.

I'm not entirely certain who first used this riff - Keith Richards or Paul Kossoff in Free (on All Right Now). Any guitar historians here?

I'm not a Stones encyclopedia, but the earliest Stones song I can think of with that riff is Brown Sugar. So is Kossoff the answer? Or is there someone else in the 60s who is responsible?

I reopened this thread as I don't want to start a new one just to ask a simple question which is: why wasn't LMIYHA reworked for Made in Heaven since there seemed to be a substantial demo available (unlike for example You Don't Fool Me).

But just a point about the conversation above -- Brown Sugar was written in 1969 and performed at Altamont that year. However, it wasn't released until 1971. Richards was shown the open G tuning by Ry Cooder. All Right Now was released in 1970 but I don't know when it was written. So if it's a choice between the two, then 'Keef' wins, but it wasn't totally his idea, it was also Cooder's.

Good question Holly. Maybe they didn’t feel it fitted with the rest of the material? Personally I think it could have worked on MIH and would have chosen it over a re-working of My Life Has Been Saved (I prefer the original version). But it does raise the question what else is there lurking in the archives? Hopefully a few more gems that have been overlooked.

I don't think they had the technology to complete LMIYHA for Made In Heaven because Brian has often said how useful protools were in completing it.

http://www.somethingelsereviews.com/2014/10/14/queen-forever-brian-may/

What Young Music Fan said plus the fact that they probably forgot this song existed. They might've been looking through the archives for Made In Heaven but finding the right tapes isn't as organised as you'd think. Things can get mislabelled or misplaced, get stolen or just get thrown out.

The song was forgotten about and only turned up over the last few years, hence getting a small remake and put on Queen forever.

So in 1993, when Brian began work on Made in Heaven, he had already forgotten about the song he wrote and recorded with Queen for The Works (1984), and then re-recorded with his missus in 1988?

Holly2003 wrote:

So in 1993, when Brian began work on Made in Heaven, he had already forgotten about the song he wrote and recorded with Queen for The Works (1984), and then re-recorded with his missus in 1988?

exactly. he may have a bad memory, but nowhere near that bad.

I would guess it wasn't chosen as they already had a track from Brian's solo work, A track from Rogers Solo work and two from Freddies album.

Maybe Roger and Brian wanted equal amounts of writers royalties and this one credited to Brain would tip it in his favour a little too much.

Or maybe it was just one too many ballads?

It would fit in a nice continuity as it references let me live nicely.

There is an early "The Works" promo tape (and also an slightly different master) that features a 13 songs tracklist which includes LMIYHA and Man Made Paradise (which also might have made it to "Hot Space"), as well as Man On Fire and Let Me Live, or even I Go Crazy depending on which item we're talking about. It definitely was considered to be released back in 1983-84.