Queen music at funerals

"BTW, where can I find the instrumental version of Guide Me Home??"

It's also the credits of the Freddie Mercury Video Collection DVD. I burned GMH from that for the "exit music". Very moving and very beautiful.

For my funeral i would choose These are the Days of Our Lives. I find it a very uplifting and happy song. I think Freddie was celebrating his leaving. In My Defence is absolutely brilliant and that was the first take. That one too.

Do you like In My Defence 2000? The video was fab, the ending always makes me cry -- and I like the instrumental version also!

I think I would have "These Are The Days Of Our Lives" and "The Show Must Go On" played at my funeral. They are my two all-time favorite songs (tied), And they'd be fitting for the occasion, I suspect. :P

I'd love to have These Are The Days Of Our Lives played at my funeral. It just seems to have the perfect feeling to it.

Queen music goes for everything.
If they won't put at least three Queen albums, I'll rise as a zombie... hehe

Thanks for sharing your story. I can absolutely understand why you chose that song. I used to sit and listen to it on lonely nights and it would almost make me cry. I think you it says far more than just the lyrics.

Indeed... It made me all misty eyed.

At my funeral, I'd like to have TATDOOL played (maybe even as accompaniment to a photo/video montage somewhat akin to the TATDOOL video, sans musicians). Sometimes the most obvious choice is also the most fitting. And I'd work in Lily of the Valley somewhere as well.

viktoria wrote:

Thanks for sharing your story. I can absolutely understand why you chose that song. I used to sit and listen to it on lonely nights and it would almost make me cry. I think you it says far more than just the lyrics.

You're welcome! Just the first five notes of Guide Me Home have me almost drowning in tears...but the instrumental at the funeral did not. Not even the playing of TATDOOL in the chapel. Usually seeing other people cry does me in, I end up doing the same, but I couldn't. The sheer beauty of Freddie's voice echoing off the chapel walls was magnificent -- glad I used the gold CD, LOL! -- I had never heard the song being more beautiful and poignant at the same time. I listened to it again the day after the funeral and it still did not make me cry...though seeing Freddie singing "I still love you" on the video gets me every time, almost 13 years later...

I think those songs (eh about Bette lol) ...at the funeral...i kinda made a memorial cd after a friend of mine died in may...and it had Music from Queen/Freddie ...

When my cousin died in Jan, his wife asked me to be a bearer at the funeral. I had to say yes cos he was like my best mate. The morning of the funeral came and I thought to myself 'Be Strong' so I was, with the other bearers, we did our job and throughout the funeral I thought I did quite well, I held it together!! Then at the end of the service WWTLF started and I just broke! I aint been able to listen to it since! Still, Ill get over it! I think id like Elvis, My Way played at mine!!

It was really spooky stumbling onto this thread.
My mum died suddenly and unexpectedly on June 3 this year. She had always been a huge Queen and especially Freddie fan and it seemed appropriate to use their music to say our goodbyes.
I helped carry her coffin in to the strains of Barcelona (she loved the place) and I almost choked then, after the service was complete and we began to file out, it was perfect when the electric piano intro for You're My Best Friend started up...of course the problem is everytime I hear these tracks now I become an emotional wreck

BMW and Paul, my condolences to you and your families/friends. Death in a family is hard; losing a mum or dad is the hardest thing one ever has to face. My mum's been gone a little over three months now and I miss her dearly every day. Life changes in an instant but you have to carry on. This may sound strange but my dad is now a Queen fan because of the two songs played at mum's funeral. He's borrowed all of my Queen CDs and will be starting on the DVDs soon. He apologised for being so supercritical of them in the 70s, 80s and 90s but sees what I liked so much about their music. His hero was Frank Sinatra and he gave a super compliment to Freddie: "His voice was miles above Sinatra." Of course WE know that, but to hear someone from another generation say that is astounding!
(And he could not believe Freddie's ability at the piano, he always thought it was a "session musician" -- OY!!!)