A winter's tale

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A winter's tale
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
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
A winter's tale
  DE 62 December 25, 1995 (9 weeks)
  AT 23 01/14/1996 (2 weeks)
  CH 28 01/14/1996 (7 weeks)
  UK 6th December 23, 1995 (11 weeks)

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

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

  1. Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK
  2. Information about the song. songfacts.com, accessed October 13, 2016 .
  3. A Winter's Tale (single) - Queenpedia.com. Accessed August 28, 2019 .