| Vulcan 28.11.2005 11:41 |
I know this may have already been discussed a while ago, but I can't find it, but can anyone tell me the year that Freddie's vocal was recorded for each song on the MIH album as I read somewhere that some were as early as 1983. Many thanks :o) Jim |
| Lester Burnham 28.11.2005 11:50 |
Beautiful Day - April 1980, The Game sessions Made In Heaven, Born To Love You - 1985, Mr Bad Guy Let Me Live - 1983 (Freddie vocal), 1994-95 (Brian and Roger) Mother Love - 1991 (Freddie vocal), 1994-95 (Brian vocal) My Life, Too Much Love - 1989, The Miracle sessions Heaven For Everyone - 1987 You Don't Fool Me, Winter's Tale - 1991 |
| Vulcan 28.11.2005 12:10 |
Thanks v. much :oD Jim |
| Serry... 28.11.2005 12:14 |
To be more correct: "I was born to love you" and "Made in heaven" could be recorded in 1984. And "My life has been saved" and "Too much love will kill you" in 1988 :) |
| Daz85 28.11.2005 13:09 |
Brian's vocal on Mother Love comes from his original demo from 1991, and was not changed laster on. |
| PainPleasure 01.12.2005 03:26 |
Lester Burnham wrote: Beautiful Day - April 1980, The Game sessionsIt's impossible it doesn't sound like Freddie's voice at the beginning of the '80s...more around 1987 or 1988... |
| Sebastian 01.12.2005 06:45 |
It's already been confirmed that IABD is from 1980, Game sessions at Munich. |
| deleted user 01.12.2005 10:37 |
I thought " A winters tale" was recorded late in 1990 in montreux - jim hutton mentions it in his book " mercury and me " . |
| FriedChicken 01.12.2005 13:39 |
Sebastian wrote: It's already been confirmed that IABD is from 1980, Game sessions at Munich.But it was Brian who said that, he could be wrong ofcourse :P |
| FriedChicken 01.12.2005 13:43 |
the last vocals from Freddie from Mother Love were recorded 11 days before his death |
| Lester Burnham 01.12.2005 15:00 |
FriedChicken<br><font size=1>The Almighty</font> wrote:Actually Greg said it, so it is your memory that is out of whack! Why can't you be more like Brian and have a better memory? Next you'll be saying 'My Fairy King' is from The Works!Sebastian wrote: It's already been confirmed that IABD is from 1980, Game sessions at Munich.But it was Brian who said that, he could be wrong ofcourse :P |
| stateside fan 01.12.2005 20:26 |
i agree.no way "beautiful day" was from 1980.Freddies voice was much different(and much better) then.that vocal strains from the first note.sounds like everything after The Great Pretender. |
| Lester Burnham 01.12.2005 20:57 |
stateside fan wrote: i agree.no way "beautiful day" was from 1980.Freddies voice was much different(and much better) then.that vocal strains from the first note.sounds like everything after The Great Pretender.No, 'Beautiful Day' was from 1980. |
| Zander05 02.12.2005 01:12 |
Maybe the guys decided to tinker with Beautiful Day sometime during the Innuendo sessions...? Might explain Freddie's voice. I'll shut up in case I'm wrong. |
| The Real Wizard 02.12.2005 04:14 |
Dracula wrote: I thought " A winters tale" was recorded late in 1990 in montreux - jim hutton mentions it in his book " mercury and me " .Jim's a dick. It was recorded very shortly before Freddie died, along with Mother Love. I still don't believe that It's A Beautiful Day is from 1980. Brian forgets stuff... a lot. Freddie's voice definitely sounds like it's from later on, but not too late. He still has the husky voice from the smoking, so it could be as late as the Works or Magic time period, but no later. |
| Lemmy 02.12.2005 06:57 |
Maybe they re-recorded IABD... As for the 'Yeah' bit, I know I've already heard it somewhere else than at the end of IABD. Anybody have a clue? |
| Adam Baboolal 02.12.2005 07:00 |
Ah... the IABD vocal query appears again. But it's being disputed again? Listen, the folks saying it's 1980 are correct. Not just because it was confirmed by Greg, but also because months before that confirmation I was certain it was from the Game sessions. Brian then talked about how they discovered the demo that Freddie had done and it was a nice surprise. I sat and listened to the quality of the voice, the recording's sonical properties and it fit what I started thinking. I originally thought it was something new from the last sessions. But once we all started figuring out where everything came from for the MIH sessions, I paid attention to IABD. And I still hold the same feeling that I can guarantee it's definitely from the early 1980 period. Then because the dispute was still going, someone emailed Brian's site and Greg pops up a few months later telling us it's Freddie's Vox (short for vocals in recording terms) from The Game sessions. For me, the deciding factor is listening to Freddie in the Game sessions, The Miracle sessions and then the Innuendo sessions. The comparison will allow you to hear the breakdown that occurs from the things that affect the way something was recorded and the way Freddie sounded at any particular time. Listen to those alone and you should get a clear idea of what matches IABD, too. Peace, Adam. |
| Sebastian 02.12.2005 21:56 |
Indeed the voice sounds quite similar to 1-3 years after Jazz, nice open-throat for the high notes as in Don't Stop Me but of course a little darker. His voice in that period was brilliant, no wonder why they put it as opening track. |
| bitesthedust 03.12.2005 06:47 |
in terms of Mother Love, Brian recorded the last lines after Freddie's death as he hadn't finished the vocals (obviously)... whether it was 1991 or 1994-1995 I don't know. |
| john bodega 03.12.2005 11:37 |
Well there's the thing. Brian might have already done stuff for Mother Love before Freddie recorded his parts - so it could have been done before. However, as Brian puts it, in those days they were basically writing anything down they had, just getting Freddie to sing whatever they could get him to sing so maybe they didn't even have a last verse ready for him when he became too ill to sing anymore. Who knows. IABD is definitely 1980. It just... sounds like it. Compare it with "Is Everybody Happy" or "Dog with a Bone". Those two (87, 88, whenever they were done) give you a good idea of where his voice was at in demos at that time. Then go and listen to stuff from 1980. It just fits. To address the initial list posted... it'd be fair to say that A Winter's Tale also has Brian and Roger on it from '94, '95 because they had to do the harmonies. But it's a minor nitpick. I had heard the last stuff for Mother Love was done very shortly (a matter of weeks) before Freddie died. But I've had other people try to tell me his last recordings were in MAY! (haha, yeah right...) Does anyone *know* for certain? |
| Serry... 03.12.2005 11:39 |
I do. His last recordings were done in September - October 1991. "May" rumour came from Champions Of The World documentary. |
| john bodega 03.12.2005 11:40 |
See yeah, that's what I figured. Thanks. |
| Seven_Seas_Of_Rhye II 04.12.2005 14:51 |
Mother Love is from October 1991 for sure - I don't remember who - David R. or Brian - said it. Winter's Tale - that's a question... (of course summer-autumn 1991) |
| zaiga 05.12.2005 05:31 |
Lemmy wrote: Maybe they re-recorded IABD... As for the 'Yeah' bit, I know I've already heard it somewhere else than at the end of IABD. Anybody have a clue?"Yeah" seems to come from "Action This Day". I believe you hear it around 1:50, I might be wrong, I'm not at home so I can't check, but it goes like this "Action this day, YEAH, action this night". Just listen to those yeah's and you'll hear the similarities. |
| Serry... 05.12.2005 07:26 |
God... Seems like Freddie recorded just one "Yeah!" through all his music career! |
| Joma 05.12.2005 07:46 |
FriedChicken<br><font size=1>The Almighty</font> wrote: the last vocals from Freddie from Mother Love were recorded 11 days before his deathNo f...in' way. Be serious! |
| Sebastian 05.12.2005 09:54 |
> Well there's the thing. Brian might have already done stuff for Mother Love before Freddie recorded his parts - so it could have been done before. Perhaps. Nothing is excluded. What Bri said is that Fred never went in to record the last verse. > To address the initial list posted... it'd be fair to say that A Winter's Tale also has Brian and Roger on it from '94, '95 because they had to do the harmonies. But it's a minor nitpick. They could have easily done them in '91. > I had heard the last stuff for Mother Love was done very shortly (a matter of weeks) before Freddie died. The story as I've compiled it (through interviews, leaving it clear that both Brian and David Richards might have misremembered) is as follows: while Brian was at the studio, Fred recorded the bridge of ML and said he'd come back later to do the last verse. Shortly afterwards he rang David Richards and said he'd written the last verse of Winter's Tale, went in and sang it. Then Fred left and a couple of days later he was back in London, and died the following week. The outcome was that Brian (since he wasn't present at the last AWT session) thought that Fred's last session had been that one of the Mother Love bridge but actually it had been AWT. |
| NielsB 05.12.2005 17:19 |
The 'yeah' is the first 'yeah' of Don't Try Suicide. |
| Lester Burnham 05.12.2005 20:54 |
Nope, 'Fool Me' was recorded in '91, though I think people get confused because in GH3 it says "harks back to the Hot Space" days or something, which people misconstrue as being a Hot Space outtake. |
| FriedChicken 06.12.2005 03:59 |
Joma wrote:I am serious, this is true.FriedChicken<br><font size=1>The Almighty</font> wrote: the last vocals from Freddie from Mother Love were recorded 11 days before his deathNo f...in' way. Be serious! |
| Sebastian 06.12.2005 08:27 |
Exactly, it harks back to the Hot Space era but it doesn't mean it belongs there. For that matter Freddie composed Seaside Rendezvous two decades before he was born because it "harks back" to the 1920s, and Johnny wrote Need Your Loving when he was seven, for it "harks back" to late 50s :) |