LOVE KILLS
Writer(s)
Freddie Mercury Giorgio Moroder
Producer(s)
Freddie Mercury Giorgio Moroder Reinhold Mack
Freddie Mercury - vocals, synthesizers
Brian May - guitar, bass guitar
Roger Taylor - drum programming
John Deacon - additional guitars
Reinhold Mack - synthesizers, programming
IN MY DEFENSE
Writer(s) Dave Clark
The song was written by Dave Clark, David Soames and Jeff Daniels for the musical Time.
Recorded as a solo project, it was recorded at Abbey Road in October 1985, about six months after Mr. Bad Guy was released. The producers expected that if Mercury was not satisfied with the final song, they would let him record with the rest of Queen, but Mercury found the final version satisfactory
Freddie Mercury - lead vocals
Mike Moran - piano
Paul Vincent - guitars
Graham Jarvis - drums
Andy Pask - bass
Peter Banks - synthesizers
John Christie - backing vocals
Source: wiki
Thanks for the info.
Pretty stupid of me going to wiki about In My Defence and reading "In My Defence is a ballad performed by Queen ...AND...lead vocalist, Freddie Mercury.
Why i readed that suppsosed "AND", i dont know.
Ozz wrote:
LOVE KILLS
Writer(s)
Freddie Mercury Giorgio Moroder
Producer(s)
Freddie Mercury Giorgio Moroder Reinhold Mack
Freddie Mercury - vocals, synthesizers
Brian May - guitar, bass guitar
Roger Taylor - drum programming
John Deacon - additional guitars
Reinhold Mack - synthesizers, programming
This is correct, but only on the Queen Forever comp. The original recording doesn't have Brian's bass, as the bass was almost definitely done on a synthesizer.
Queen's input on the original version of Love Kills isn't that obvious until you realise that the solo at the end is actually Brian May on guitar. When I first heard it - and I was very young at the time - I probably assumed it was a keyboard, and then didn't think about what it was until Brian May came out and said that it was him, and then I realised....
Although Brian and Roger have both claimed to have been involved in the production of Mr Bad Guy - Roger even said "I think I added some backing vocals or something", which he must be getting confused about.
I may be making this up but wasn't Love Kills meant to be a group song but when Queen requested permission to use footage of Metropolis in the video for Radio Ga Ga, Giorgio Moroder accepted but only on the conditions that Love Kills becomes a Freddie Mercury solo song and that he could get a writing credit on the record too. As far as I know, Moroder has nothing to do with making and recording the record (though he possibly helped co-produced the record).
Moroder wrote another song for Freddie with the same title, the original inlay to the metropolis soundtrack has the lyrics to it, it's totally different.
Presumably Freddie thought it wasn't that great and reworked something the band was working on that fit the scene.
The Ghost of Lester Burnham wrote:
This is correct, but only on the Queen Forever comp. The original recording doesn't have Brian's bass, as the bass was almost definitely done on a synthesizer.
Wrong.
Sebastian wrote:
They did, they just weren't credited.
I thought Moroder didn't even produce Love Kills, and it was handed to him complete, and that he demanded a writing credit somewhere in the contract for the film rights. Could be wrong though...