Why didn't they just make it 45 minutes long?
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the question: "Did Freddie know" about Track 13?
In a word, no.
In more words;
3 of the songs on Made in Heaven were recorded in 1991 - Mother Love, A Winter's Tale and You Don't Fool Me.
The rest are based on stuff taken from throughout the bands career. The strongest and most recurring theme on the album is from It's a Beautiful Day, which was started in 1980 (or so I've heard - it sounds right).
He probably knew next to nothing about the exact format of MIH. His words to Brian were to the effect of "just give me anything, keep writing, and I'll sing it". I don't imagine that he'd be thinking ahead to the stuff they'd do without him.
But basically, he knew that a posthumous album of some sort would be made, and he did tell the other guys that he wanted his last songs to be released. It was common sense that they'd probably pad it out with older stuff that had been remixed perhaps.
It's a shame that certain unreleased songs weren't prettied up and put on MIH, but they had good reason I suppose. Take "Feelings" - it's a great little song, but thematically it totally doesn't fit with something like A Winter's Tale. Try following Mother Love with "Silver Salmon".
the question: "Did Freddie know" about Track 13?
In a word, no.
In more words;
3 of the songs on Made in Heaven were recorded in 1991 - Mother Love, A Winter's Tale and You Don't Fool Me.
The rest are based on stuff taken from throughout the bands career. The strongest and most recurring theme on the album is from It's a Beautiful Day, which was started in 1980 (or so I've heard - it sounds right).
He probably knew next to nothing about the exact format of MIH. His words to Brian were to the effect of "just give me anything, keep writing, and I'll sing it". I don't imagine that he'd be thinking ahead to the stuff they'd do without him.
But basically, he knew that a posthumous album of some sort would be made, and he did tell the other guys that he wanted his last songs to be released. It was common sense that they'd probably pad it out with older stuff that had been remixed perhaps.
It's a shame that certain unreleased songs weren't prettied up and put on MIH, but they had good reason I suppose. Take "Feelings" - it's a great little song, but thematically it totally doesn't fit with something like A Winter's Tale. Try following Mother Love with "Silver Salmon".