A winter's tale
| A winter's tale | |
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| Queen | |
| publication | December 11, 1995 |
| length | 3:49 |
| Genre (s) | Psychodelic rock , soft rock , art rock |
| Author (s) | Queen Freddie Mercury |
| Label | Parlophone , Hollywood |
| album | Made in Heaven |
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A Winter's Tale is a song by the British rock band Queen , written by their singer Freddie Mercury and released in 1995, several years after his death in 1991. The song was the second single from the album Made in Heaven .
Mercury wrote and composed the song after recording the Innuendo album while looking out the window of his apartment in Montreux , overlooking Lake Geneva . In a procedure that is unusual for the singer, the vocal recordings were made before the music was completed. A Winter's Tale is the last song in the group that Mercury was solely responsible for. The remaining members of Queen completed the song for the posthumous album Made in Heaven (1995). A sample from A Winter's Tale was used as the intro for the song You Don't Fool Me , also released on Made in Heaven.
For the single release in December 1995, different versions with different B-sides appeared. The traditional maxi CD contained digitally reworked versions of the older Queen songs Now I'm Here (1974), You're My Best Friend (1975) and Somebody To Love (1976); a second maxi CD, optically designed as a Christmas greeting card, had the B-sides of the Christmas song Thank God It's Christmas (first released in 1984 as a separate single) and the previously unreleased live recording Rock in Rio Blues , recorded during Rock in Rio Festivals in January 1985. The B-side of the 7 "single from A Winter's Tale is just Thank God It's Christmas .
Although the single was successfully placed in the UK charts (UK # 6), A Winter's Tale was not considered for the compilation album Greatest Hits III (1999). Only with the release of the album Deep Cuts, Volume 3 (1984-1995) from 2011, A Winter's Tale was re-released as part of a Queen compilation. The song is also featured on the album Queen Forever (2014), a compilation of the band's greatest ballads and love songs.
occupation
- Freddie Mercury : ( background ) vocals , keyboard
- Brian May : Electric guitar , keyboard, backing vocals
- Roger Taylor : drums , backing vocals
- John Deacon : Bass
Music video
The music video that was made after Mercury's death should be understood as an epitaph . In addition to images of winter landscapes, Mercury's images from earlier performances and music videos can be seen.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK
- ↑ Information about the song. songfacts.com, accessed October 13, 2016 .
- ↑ A Winter's Tale (single) - Queenpedia.com. Accessed August 28, 2019 .