Does anyone know if "woe" was the working title for a song on ADATR? Prior to the album's release, Circus magazine wrote about a song called "Woe" that had multiple overdubs. Thanks.
Penetration_Guru wrote: Could it be, and I'm just guessing here....a magazine printed something inaccurate?
I know I know, it seems SO unlikely...
No it was straight from the horses (Brian's) mouth> He cited a song named "Woe" they were working on as an example of how the guitar overdubs were starting to get ridiculous. Has anyone ever asked him, I imagine someone would've so I wont bother to.
I always assumed it was a working title for The Millionaire Waltz.
All the quotes I've read about it could easily be referring to that song, being as it was the song with the richest production on ADATR.
Bohardy wrote: I always assumed it was a working title for The Millionaire Waltz.
All the quotes I've read about it could easily be referring to that song, being as it was the song with the richest production on ADATR.
I pretty much agree with Bohardy. If you consider some of the more sombre portions of TMW, the working title of 'Woe' would seem to be fairly appropriate.
Here is the quote from the article in the 1/31/77 circus. ...the Anglo-Japanese "Let Us Cling Together" (which may well be the most difficult mix of our career, except for Freddie's "Woe"). Mercury's "Woe" has a ludicious amount of overdubs, "the multiple guitar thing has reached rediculous proportions" according to Mr. May.
It might be the working title for "Millionaire Waltz" because most of the other Freddie compositions on ADATR are mentioned elsewhere in the article.
The article does not mention Millionaire Waltz, but does talk about Somebody to Love, Good Old Fashioned Loverboy, and You Take my Breath Away, which are the other Freddie compositions I would have considered.
Interesting -- so it would appear that 'Woe' was the working title of 'Millionaire Waltz'.
For some reason, I always really like finding out working titles of songs. Maybe that's weird.