Why is Mother Love not credited as a Queen song ?

Does anyone know why Mother Love is credited to Brian and Freddie instead of Queen ?

All the other songs from that era are credited to Queen.

Perhaps Brian wanted more money on royalties.

Simple, John was on holiday in Bali and Roger was shagging someone. Brian left his clogs at Freddie's place, After droping over to pick them up, they had a cup of tea and a couple of vodkas, then they came up with this great song.

Sebastian, re:

>Perhaps Brian wanted more money on royalties.

That was exactly my thought the day I saw it at the Fan Club launch at Hammy Odeon.

Brian clearly spotted the opportunity and decided that as it was going to be lauded as Freddie's parting gift, the very last thing that he worked on and the mileage he could get out of the story of Freddie meaning to sing the final verse but never actually getting to do it. The only financial split would be between Freddie's estate and Brian.

Ever the consummate business man.

Well, they all were really, and still are. Good for them though.

Seriously do you really think that Brian was that opportunistic? It's not like they hadn't co-written a song before. It really probably was just a matter of circumstance.

[QUOTE] [b]CruellaDeVille wrote:[/b]

Seriously do you really think that Brian was that opportunistic? It's not like they hadn't co-written a song before. It really probably was just a matter of circumstance. [/QUOTE]

I'm 99% sure that Brian's ego is the reason John doesn't want to be involved with Queen anymore.

i think Brian's attitude about song-writing credit sice FM's passing has been nothing short of attrocious.

what a self-important, grandstanding and utterly unlikeable man he's become -seizing every possibility to redress the imbalance between him and the other three as main "hits" songwriter.

this is NOT the first time he's tried to re-write the song-writing credits - i doubt the notion is ever very far from his mind?

he can't do anything about the pre-"queen co-credits" - up to that point he was the officially FOURTH least successful writer with regard to actual chart hits - perhaps, therein lies the nub of the problem.

doesn't matter what he does - he can't change things -despite his shameful efforts.

I think GVHII credited him as the sole author of 'I Want It All'. Which on the one hand is absolutely fine because ... well, he was! But on the other hand, it sort of violates their rule. But if Roger, John('s lawyers) and Freddie('s estate...'s lawyers) were alright with that, then that's it.

All I can offer is my comment as a customer ... it would've been nice if they'd also reversed the rule for the rest of the tracks and credited 'Invisible Man' to Roger, 'The Miracle' to Fred and so on.

Could the guitar line (or any other part of the music) for Mother Love have already been written and maybe even excisted on tape in some guise many years before those final sessions with Freddie?

Well, there's nothing to confirm or deny that ... same for the lyrics. But the 'rule', as they described it, was that 'everything' would be credited to 'everyone' regardless of the individual circumstances.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter too much IMO, since it's their decision and it's their song anyway.

I think it was another case of Brian over compensating for his incredibly tiny penis.

Anyways since Freddies passing, you can clearly see who's missing in everything Queen does. So I can go for that Brian ego thing and even royaltys the reason for credit to Mother Love

I don't know why nobody has suggested that it could have been Roger and John who pushed this forward and insisted on Brian/Freddie taking credit for it. Just a thought.

mooghead, re:

>I think it was another case of Brian over compensating for his incredibly tiny penis.

This. Would love to hear some kiss-and-tell stories about Brian's groupie antics; there's a book there, surely.