It was Freddie Mercury himself who sang that the present should go on. Positive sufficient, on December 23, 1995, totally 4 years after his loss of life, Queen had been scoring one more new Prime 10 hit within the UK along with his composition “A Winter’s Tale.”
The observe was lifted from the Made In Heaven album that had been launched a number of weeks earlier, and change into an instantaneous No.1. “A Winter’s Tale” was written in Freddie’s ultimate months, after the completion of the classes for Innuendo, the ultimate Queen studio album of his lifetime. The track was to not be confused with one other of the identical title which had reached No.2 within the UK charts for singer-actor David Essex again in 1982.
Gratifyingly for Brian Could, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon, the Queen single and album launch left little question of their minds in regards to the affection by which they, and Mercury, had been held by the British public. It entered the chart at No.6, as Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” continued at No.1. That will have been the Queen track’s solely week within the Prime 10, nevertheless it gave Queen a working whole of 23 singles prime tenners, to which they’ve since added one other two to date.
Trying throughout Lake Geneva
“Heaven” additionally turned a modest hit in different European international locations, reaching the Prime 30 in Austria, Holland and Queen’s beloved Switzerland. They’d recorded so usually there, and it was the place Freddie composed the track, looking throughout Lake Geneva from his hospital mattress.
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“Freddie wrote the song in Montreux, in a little house on the lake that we called The Duck House,” Could informed Mojo. “The extraordinary factor is he’s speaking about life and its magnificence at a time when he is aware of he hasn’t acquired very lengthy to go, but there’s no wallowing in emotion, it’s simply completely purely noticed.
“So that’s the way I wanted my solo to be. It was one of those things where I could hear it in my head, long before I actually got to play it. And when I recorded it, at my home studio, in my head I was there with Freddie in Montreux in those moments, even though this was happening long after he was gone.”
Purchase or stream “A Winter’s Tale” on Made In Heaven.
