Anita Dobson

According to discogs.com let me in your heart again and I dream of Christmas are compositions of Anita’s , has anybody got The Talking of Love album and can they check what songs were written or co-written by Brian

[QUOTE] [b]Darren_1977 wrote:[/b]

According to discogs.com let me in your heart again and I dream of Christmas are compositions of Anita’s , has anybody got The Talking of Love album and can they check what songs were written or co-written by Brian [/QUOTE]

People have included full details and photos on her album on Queen sites, and Brian wrote (completely himself) three of the songs from her Talking Of Love album including I Dream Of Christmas and Let Me In Your Heart Again.

PS - Anita's only co-writing credit with Brian is on 'Funny Old Life Ain't It'

Thanks for clearing that up!

QueenVault is usually pretty accurate : http://www.queenvault.com/talkingoflovealbum.html

It also makes sense that the original LMIYHA Queen version was probably recorded 4-5 years before, meaning that Brian was at helm. Anita's version always happened after the fact.

Same goes for I Dream Of Christmas and probably the rest of the other tracks with Brian's input.

Talking of Love is terribly mediocre for someone of Brian's calibre.

[QUOTE] [b]Golden Salmon wrote:[/b]

It also makes sense that the original LMIYHA Queen version was probably recorded 4-5 years before, meaning that Brian was at helm. Anita's version always happened after the fact.

Same goes for I Dream Of Christmas and probably the rest of the other tracks with Brian's input.[/QUOTE]

Indeed. Both were during 'The Works' era... Thank God It's Christmas was the chosen one!

Imagine a Freddie version of 'I Dream Of Christmas' though?

Did Brian record a version with Julia Glover?

Songs like LMIYHA make me wonder if Brian's first marriage was in trouble well before Anita came along (apparently in 1986).

[QUOTE] [b]MisterCosmicc wrote:[/b]

Imagine a Freddie version of 'I Dream Of Christmas' though? [/QUOTE]

Who knows, if it exists we might get to hear a snippet or a demo in the (far) future. At the very least, Brian's demo must exist.

I often wonder if Talking of Love was ever considered for a Queen track. It's certainly not an amazing song, but it would've been a nice album track on A Kind of Magic.

[QUOTE] [b]The Ghost of Lester Burnham wrote:[/b]

I often wonder if Talking of Love was ever considered for a Queen track. It's certainly not an amazing song, but it would've been a nice album track on A Kind of Magic.[/QUOTE]

I've wondered that too

My only wonder about "Talking of Love" is if it's horrible or fucking horrible, I can't decide. What's quite curious, the brief guitar riff makes me puke. It seems I've developed a Brian May intolerance over the years.

Songs like this made harder an harder to listen them with an open heart, in any formula invented by Brian. He gradually became a kind of Sam Elliott graveyard keeper, with a guitar instead of a shovel.

Thanks, I had completely forgotten about Funny Old Life Ain't It. Now it's horrendous chorus is stuck in my head.