A song Made In Heaven

It may also be worth mentioning for those who don't know (and there seem some who are unaware of the solo material)that Heaven For Everyone can be found on the album 'Shove It' (circa 1988) which is by The Cross, Roger's band. Freddie sang the album version, Roger the single version. There are two other Cross albums ('Mad Bad And Dangerous To Know' and 'Blue Rock'). I think Mad Bad is the best. Blue Rock is okay. Shove It is interesting - I believe Roger wrote it mainly on his own and formed the band around it. The album seems to use Queen samples heavily.

Also, My Life Has Been Saved was originally a b-side from the Miracle singles (Scandal single I think) and was beefed up for use on MIH. I sometimes wonder why MLHBS wasn't put on the Miracle album over songs like My Baby Does Me and Rain Must Fall. It's also better than Party and Khashoggi's Ship in my opinion, but it's not an album openener.

While the solo stuff isn't Queen, it's usually good stuff in my opinion, and is interesting to see where the individual comes from in musical terms. If you haven't checked out the solo stuff, it's worth it.

I agree that Baby & Rain are not better than many songs that were left out of the album (Hang On In There, Chinese Torture, Stealin'...)

"How somebody could sing something like that?, in their last days"

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the only songs Freddie recorded in summer 1991 were Mother Love, You Don't Fool Me, and A Winter's Tale.

"Sorry to burst your bubble, but the only songs Freddie recorded in summer 1991 were Mother Love, You Don't Fool Me, and A Winter's Tale".

--- Really, Guitar Hero? I agree with you as far as "Mother Love" and "A Winter´s Tale" is concerned. But I always thought "Fool me" has been recorded earlier. Sounds so "80ies"... I´m sure the snipet of "Let me live" is from that period whilst "Beautiful days seems to be from the 70ies.

i'm not up on all of the Queen members solo work, but that will change soon enough...but i just love the album MAde in Heaven, doesn't matter when some of the songs were written or who they were written by, all in all i think it's a beautiful album, very reflective for me as a person...but hey what to i know? ;D

Dave Richards confirmed that You Don't Fool Me is from post Innuendo. Fred apparently finished Winter's Tale recordings (vocal or synths? no idea) nine days before he died

I tend to just listen to MIH as it is too, fairy_mercury. The album is very close to me in many ways, but it doesn't hurt to know when the songs were recorded. :)

"But I always thought "Fool me" has been recorded earlier. Sounds so "80ies"... I´m sure the snipet of "Let me live" is from that period whilst "Beautiful days seems to be from the 70ies."

Fred's voice definitely sounds post-Innuendo. As for Beautiful Day, Brian confirmed last year it was from The Game sessions in '80.

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"Fred apparently finished Winter's Tale recordings (vocal or synths? no idea) nine days before he died"

Wow! But can you confirm that? I don't think Freddie would have been in a good enough state then. He was going blind by that point... so sad.

Sebastian, Guitar Hero: Thanks for driving away the "fog of ignorance" ;.) Very interessting, indeed!
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Sebastian: Just took a look at your site - incredible! I could read for hours and hours...

*uses Jedi mind trick* No you don't.

Last year David cleared a discussion (I think it was in qonline and somebody here put the link for all of us) about wheter Mother Love or Winter's Tale was the last song Fred recorded. There are fans who claim that he said it was AWT, some others clain he said ML. So he said:

"You have to realise that we were jumping from song to song all the time. We may have done the first verse for Winter's Tale before moving on to do the middle eight on Mother Love. I definitely remember him calling me up and saying he'd finally finished the lyrics for the last verse of Winter's Tale and could come in and sing it. After he had done this he told me to compile and edit the vocal takes myself, that he trusted me to do it, and didn't have the time. (He normally always sat with me to choose the vocal takes). Two days later I heard he was back in London. He died 10 days after that. I also remember him saying that Maggie could sing the last verse of Mother Love....it was his song after all."

Yeah

I can confirm that story. D Richards told me when i went to Mountain Studios that Fred recorded parts of Winter Tale and Mother Love about two weeks before he passed away.

He said that those vocals were recored in the mixing room down stairs as Fred was to weak to go up the stairs !

When u listen to the songs in that context it gives the vocal performance Fred layed down a different perspective

What a man !

I love Freddie's version.

Wow Sebastian, that's fascinating!

iGSM, I believe the line is: "one dump...one turd...to fit John Deacon"

So did I but Penetration_Guru bashed me into changing it.