Nope, never read it.
It could have been quoted somewhere, I suppose.
Also, I think SASS, YMBF, and IWtBF were rather personal and Freddie sang (some of) those.
You can't be the lead singer of a successfull band with 3 other song writers and be picky with what the songs are about.
Besides, how often have they said they never discussed what the songs meant.
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See What A Fool I've Been, Brighton Rock, Tie Your Mother Down, White Man, It's Late, Las Palabras de Amor, Flash, Who Wants To Live Forever, Gimme The Prize... a bunch of Brian songs that Freddie sang, and none of them were about Freddie (soundtrack regardless).
As said, they only write songs Freddie can relate to. If it's personal, Freddie might not sing it. Let's say Brian was to write a song about his hair, Freddie wouldn't sing it.
What...? None of these were regarding Freddie or written for him to relate to, yet he sang them all.
"Would you say that if Freddie wrote the beginning of Breakthru (originally "A New Life Is Born") he would have played piano on it?
Becuase, if you listen very carefully to the demo through a good set of headphones (I use my iPod as it gives out very good sound) - you can clearly here Brian's guide vocal... would this suggest he played the piano on it and possibly wrote A New Life Is Born? Or am I looking into too much and should just assume he simply played the piano on the demo?
It's been bugging me for a while, and I've been waiting for the right topic to bring it up in, and this is as good as any".
- GKS: There's absolutely no way that Brian wrote nor played piano on ANLIB. The song is clearly a Fred composition/improvisation with, excepting the carefully constructed intro, Fred basically fiddling around on the piano whilst searching out vocal ideas on top. It's been confirmed numerous times that ANLIB is a Fred composition (not that anyone would need this to be confirmed to them I'd hope, as so obviously classic Fred).
The guide vocal from Brian you refer to is presumably some kind of vocal bleed from another track. This effect happens at other points in the demo, and although you could say it sounds like Brian, I really don't think it is.
Up the Spurs.
Becuase, if you listen very carefully to the demo through a good set of headphones (I use my iPod as it gives out very good sound) - you can clearly here Brian's guide vocal... would this suggest he played the piano on it and possibly wrote A New Life Is Born? Or am I looking into too much and should just assume he simply played the piano on the demo?
It's been bugging me for a while, and I've been waiting for the right topic to bring it up in, and this is as good as any".
- GKS: There's absolutely no way that Brian wrote nor played piano on ANLIB. The song is clearly a Fred composition/improvisation with, excepting the carefully constructed intro, Fred basically fiddling around on the piano whilst searching out vocal ideas on top. It's been confirmed numerous times that ANLIB is a Fred composition (not that anyone would need this to be confirmed to them I'd hope, as so obviously classic Fred).
The guide vocal from Brian you refer to is presumably some kind of vocal bleed from another track. This effect happens at other points in the demo, and although you could say it sounds like Brian, I really don't think it is.
Up the Spurs.
Not that I doubt you for one seconds Bohardy, quite the contrary, but, out of interest for what it's worth, between 15 seconds and 18 seconds (on my version at least), is the voice I'm talking about - which sounds very much like a guide vocal by Brian. Whether it is just simply that, fair enough.
(You know Robinson has signed a new contract too).
(You know Robinson has signed a new contract too).
BTW Too Much Love Will Kill You was credited to Brian and some guys named Musker and Lamers, whom I've never heard mentioned before or after.
Does somebody know who are these?
He's a songwriter, she's a session singer
I knew that was the bit you were talking about GKS, and there's a much less noticeable occurance of the same type of sound at about 40 seconds.
I know in recordings I've done over the years on 4-tracks that occasionally you get these weird vocal bleeds from other tracks (or seemingly even the same track) cropping up, and I've heard many examples that sound just like this. I'm sure that's what it is.
(I do know. Thank fuck for that. Finally my Man U-loving friends can shut the hell up insisting that I'm wrong when I maintain that Robbo wouldn't leave us for them. Legend.)
I know in recordings I've done over the years on 4-tracks that occasionally you get these weird vocal bleeds from other tracks (or seemingly even the same track) cropping up, and I've heard many examples that sound just like this. I'm sure that's what it is.
(I do know. Thank fuck for that. Finally my Man U-loving friends can shut the hell up insisting that I'm wrong when I maintain that Robbo wouldn't leave us for them. Legend.)