Today I found a comment (see below) at you tube River of words from the miracle sessions. But I would like to know if Freddie did sing a track from brians solo album besides too much love . freddie did reject Driven by you unfortunately. It would be stunning to hear a freddie version of The song Back to the light.
“Did Freddie sing some/couple songs from later solo albums B.May "Back to the light" and R.Taylor "Shove it" during the 'Miracle' recording sessions?
Miracle recording sessions (January 1988-January 1989)
No turning back (Freddie vocal version)”
Also on Roger's 1984 Killing Time the some synths and backing vocals.
There is for sure Rock it with Freddie vocals but it was out voted. Speculations about Man on fire & Sail away sweet sister.
Check all the information Ghost. Brian asked Freddie to sing Driven by You, but Freddie refused. The version Brian has released was according to Freddie a good version. So he rejected to sing this version.
1) Driven By You was released on 6 November 1991 and was recorded and mixed with David Richards co-producing at Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland, 1991
2) In the same time, in the same studio there were the session recording of A Winter’s Tale (January-February) and Mother Love (end of May- mid October)
3) Freddie knows the song. From a 1993 interview: "He never succumbed in spirit," Brian says. "He was always up. He always had his sense of humor, which I find incredible. He was the first to say, 'Hey, I don't want you guys to sit around. This may be happening to me, but you have your lives to lead.' I played him 'Driven by You' when I had it at the demo stage, and I said, 'Do you fancy singing it?' And he said, 'No, no, you do a perfectly good job. Go for it and get out there.' When I was about to put it out as a single quite a few months later, I said, 'You sure you're all right about this, Fred? I'm not sure how tasteful it is for me to put this out at this point in your life'—me putting out this very jolly single and getting on with my solo career while he was wasting away. He said, 'Why should you do anything else?' And he said, 'If I pop off while it's happening, it'll give you an extra bit of publicity.'
Freddie states that he don't want sing the song but couldn't sing one line?
Freddie sang a line of Roger's "I Cry For You" but it can be only heard in the 7" single version.
On the line of the topic, Brian played on "Strange Frontier" (guitar solo at OIQFC FM Tribute in Hackney 2001) and Roger played drums on Brian's "Last Horizon" (from 2005 on).
The Cross at the Astoria 1990: Roger plays on "Let Me Out". He also did sang backing vocals on the "Star Fleet" song in 1983.
At the Marquee 1992 and as an intro to "Tie Your Mother Down", Brian *and Roger* played an instrumental bit which was almost identical to the "Resurrection" bridge (it could have been easily it because BTTL was on its "hey day") during that specific period.
It wasn't that Freddie 'rejected' Driven By You, it was that he thought Brian's version was already good and felt no need to record it. I would love it had Freddie recorded that song but I think possibly he wouldn't even have been able to do it by that time anyway.
Can someone find the quote from Freddie about "Too Much Love Will Kill You"? I read somewhere that he said "It's good, Brian, but it isn't that good". This could be complete BS of course. Actually I think he's right though: I remember LOVING Freddie's version of Too Much Love when it was released on Made In Heaven, because there was very little left to hear of Freddie and anything we could hear him sing at that time was a real treasure, but now that we have more distance from it in terms of time, I look at it more objectively and think it's not the best recording or the best song ever.