Mother love
| Mother love | |
|---|---|
| Queen | |
| publication | November 6, 1995 |
| length | 4:49 |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| Author (s) | Brian May , Freddie Mercury |
| Label |
Parlophone (Europe) Hollywood (North America) |
| album | Made in Heaven |
Mother Love is a song by the British rock band Queen . It was written by Freddie Mercury and Brian May in the spring of 1991 and released on the album Made in Heaven in November 1995 . It's the last song on which Freddie Mercury's voice can be heard.
Emergence
Mother Love was written together by Brian May and Freddie Mercury, with May primarily writing the music and Mercury more the lyrics. It was the last song Mercury sang. When he recorded the song with Brian May between May 13-16, 1991, after they had recorded the second (of three) verses, he went home because he was feeling tired and said he would be on the third verse sing in next day. However, he never did this. He died on November 24 of the same year. May later said it was the last time he saw Mercury inside the studio (“After he'd finished the second verse, he said 'Oh I don't feel too well, I'm going to go home and we'll finish it tomorrow '… and he never did. That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studio. "[Brian May]). Mercury's voice is still very strong despite his health. May only recorded the last stanza several years after Mercury's death.
text
The text was written jointly by Mercury and May. Along with The Show Must Go On, the song is one of the few songs in which Mercury addresses his emotional state and how difficult it is to deal with AIDS (for example, "I'm a man of the world and they say I am strong, but my heart is heavy and my hope is gone ").
music
Mother Love is a very calm song that consists of three stanzas, between which there is always an instrumental transition, and between the 2nd and 3rd verse there is a guitar solo. In between you can hear short excerpts from other single releases by Queen. In the outro you can hear scraps of songs from the songs One Vision , Tie Your Mother Down (as live recording) and Going Back , a song by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, which Freddie Mercury - still under the name "Larry Lurex" - sang in 1972 as the lead singer. Parts of Mercury's vocal improvisation can also be heard at a concert at Wembley Stadium on July 12, 1986 in London. At the end, the sound of a baby is crying. It is written in the keys of G minor and B flat major .
occupation
- Freddie Mercury : vocals , keyboard , drum computer
- Brian May : guitar , vocals (last verse), keyboard
- John Deacon : Bass
- Roger Taylor : drums
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Information about the song. songfacts.com, accessed June 22, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Musical analysis and development. queensongs.info, accessed June 22, 2016 .
- ^ Cole Moreton: Inside the studio where Freddie Mercury sang his last song. telegraph, December 1, 2013, accessed June 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Lyrics. songfacts.com, accessed June 22, 2016 .