The love of Freddie's Life = Mary?

freddie did say that he used his real life experiences with love and heartbreak as material for his songs, but not every song is strictly autobiographical. he might have been writing about a specific person, sure, but he might also have been writing about a situation(lost love, pining and whatnot) based on experiences-so, it could be about SEVeral specific people. also, when you're reading freddie's lyrics, remember this:

"The structure of the melody comes easy to me, it's the lyrical content that I find hard, cause I'm not a poet, I just like to write nice little catchy tunes that's basically what I like to do. In term of the lyrical content that's difficult. So I have to work on that part of it. The other side seems to come... it's easier for me to write a melody and a structure but in terms of the actual lyric I find that hard because I'm not a poet and I hate writing lyrics anyway."

and i'm not trying to say that his lyrics were meaningless or unimportant, just that they were less central to his creative expression than they would be to a person like, say, john lennon.

Whatever, can't the man just write a song? I don't think you need to have someone particular in mind when writing a love song, as long as it's good.

I think it was written about Mary...

Oh wait, I dont think :S

Dont trust me then.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]macbethscrazywife wrote: [/QUOTENAME] "The structure of the melody comes easy to me, it's the lyrical content that I find hard, cause I'm not a poet, I just like to write nice little catchy tunes that's basically what I like to do. In term of the lyrical content that's difficult. So I have to work on that part of it. The other side seems to come... it's easier for me to write a melody and a structure but in terms of the actual lyric I find that hard because I'm not a poet and I hate writing lyrics anyway."

and i'm not trying to say that his lyrics were meaningless or unimportant, just that they were less central to his creative expression than they would be to a person like, say, john lennon.
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I'm not so sure about that. Just because lyrics didn't come easy to him, doesn't mean it's less central to his creative expression. It could be that there was a preciseness he wanted to convey and had to work harder to achieve that. Especially if his lyrics WERE personal. He'd want(I assume) a certain quality of writing, a certain emotion, but also to maintain a certain distance so critics (and us) couldn't pinpoint the meaning behind everything he said. Who knows, he could have jotted down first-thought lyrics we would have loved, while he might have considered them gibberish. Just think, Freddie might have been satisfied with a few 'meows' in a song, but would he have been satisfied with several 'goo goo g'joobs'?
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okay well not that anyone cares but heres what i think:

a while ago i cant remember what I actually saw it on but I remember freddie saying that Love of my Life was written for Mary as like a dont worry, thank you and I love you song all mixed together. I cant remember exactly what he said but it was something along those lines...
so I believe that it was written for her.

anyway it doesnt really matter! pretend he wrote it for you!! hehe! gosh I wish someone would write me a beautiful song like that! :D
anyway,

See ya later aligator!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=pink>The Millionaire Waltz wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Whatever, can't the man just write a song? I don't think you need to have someone particular in mind when writing a love song, as long as it's good.[/QUOTE]

If you dont think an argument is worth discussing, theres this amazing thing you can do.

you can not say anything about it.

You dont have to come and COMMENT, no ones making you, be we have the freedom if we want, thanks. saying "who cares" makes you sortof... well, care.

if mary wasn't the love of his life then why did he leave all his money and his mansion to her?
mary was the only person he really cared about, besides his family.
answer me that dude where's my car.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]magicalfreddiemercury wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]macbethscrazywife wrote: [/QUOTENAME] "The structure of the melody comes easy to me, it's the lyrical content that I find hard, cause I'm not a poet, I just like to write nice little catchy tunes that's basically what I like to do. In term of the lyrical content that's difficult. So I have to work on that part of it. The other side seems to come... it's easier for me to write a melody and a structure but in terms of the actual lyric I find that hard because I'm not a poet and I hate writing lyrics anyway."

and i'm not trying to say that his lyrics were meaningless or unimportant, just that they were less central to his creative expression than they would be to a person like, say, john lennon.
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I'm not so sure about that. Just because lyrics didn't come easy to him, doesn't mean it's less central to his creative expression. It could be that there was a preciseness he wanted to convey and had to work harder to achieve that. Especially if his lyrics WERE personal. He'd want(I assume) a certain quality of writing, a certain emotion, but also to maintain a certain distance so critics (and us) couldn't pinpoint the meaning behind everything he said. Who knows, he could have jotted down first-thought lyrics we would have loved, while he might have considered them gibberish. Just think, Freddie might have been satisfied with a few 'meows' in a song, but would he have been satisfied with several 'goo goo g'joobs'?
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i'm not quite sure what your final point is...like i said, i'm not trying to entirely trivialize his lyrics, but i think when he says "I just like to write nice little catchy tunes that's basically what I like to do," it's pretty clear. the melody is more important to him-one of the things he excelled at. you can tell more about his state of mind from listening to the tune than you can from listening to the lyrics-take innuendo, don't even the most cheerful, funny songs on there sound a little dour? maybe it's just me projecting, idk.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]donttrysuicide wrote: [/QUOTENAME]if mary wasn't the love of his life then why did he leave all his money and his mansion to her?
mary was the only person he really cared about, besides his family.
answer me that dude where's my car.[/QUOTE]
well, this isn't the final word, but someone on another thread said jim said(ooh, i'm a poet! lol),
“At that stage, Freddie already knew that I was HIV positive. He knew that Joe Fanelli had Aids and would die soon. He had to be realistic. Had he left the bulk of his estate to me, here would it have ended up if I passed away?”

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]thenymphinyellow wrote: [/QUOTENAME]okay well not that anyone cares but heres what i think:

a while ago i cant remember what I actually saw it on but I remember freddie saying that Love of my Life was written for Mary as like a dont worry, thank you and I love you song all mixed together. I cant remember exactly what he said but it was something along those lines...
so I believe that it was written for her.
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Can you try try try TRY to find where you saw that? Please? WHat year even??

2If Freddie and Mary split up in Seventy-six, then maybe love of my life was based on his fear of telling her about his fondness toward guys, and his fear of her departure. It's a beautiful song, and I do think Mary was the love of Freddie's life, alongside Mr. Hutton and Barbara Valentine, who he did love.

I bought that DVD the other day. I don't think they ever say that Freddie wrote it about Mary. If I remember correctly, they just insinuate that was the case.

BTW, I thought the DVD was excellent. I didn't know what to expect, but I found Brian May and Roy Thomas Baker talking about piecing together songs fascinating.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Breakthru27 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]

BTW, I thought the DVD was excellent. I didn't know what to expect, but I found Brian May and Roy Thomas Baker talking about piecing together songs fascinating. [/QUOTE]

I loved it too, fantastic, I think the special features with Roger were AWESOME, IE, half a sonic volcano! And how the album got its name, lmao,

FUCKEN SING!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]ilvcats wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I was watching the Queen DVD "The Making of A Night at the Opera" and they said that Freddie wrote "Love of My Life" for Mary.

In terms of soul mates, in your opinion, was Mary the love of Freddie's life?[/QUOTE]

yes :) sweet isn't it,because they were going out for 7yrs but then Freddie was bi-sexual so they just kinda became best best best friends :D