Brian May: "I Was Born To Love You was one of the songs I spent literally months constructing down at my studio in Allerton during the long "Made in Heaven" process. It was an obsession for me. I don't know if many people realize (it has been good really that mostly they don't) but the whole track is a montage around the pieces of Freddie's vocal and keys which we pulled off of the version on Freddie's solo album. I had always believed that this song could be a huge hit. And I wanted to create the illusion that we had all gone into the studio and re-recorded it together as Queen. The vocal is massively re-arranged to make it fit an entirely new arrangement - I have a diary of the manipulations I tried every day for weeks to send the track in new directions. And Roger and John both eventually came in and played on it, in the spirit we might have done in the old days. And there are many little ad-libs - the devoted fans will have recognised that I pinched them from other tracks!

The icing on the cake was Dave Richards doing his magic on the bass and drums as an addition to the final mix. Listen again - there are little asides and laughs rescued from trawling through the multitracks....and some actual retuning of some lines ...some 'live' trademarks, etc, etc. ...Freddie's voice soaring above big Guitars and Drums - the way I certainly always dreamed the song could be ... and the overall effect is the sound of the four Queenies in the studio having fun. Well, it COULD have happened!!! Postscript - Freddie did the original track almost as an aside. He never thought the song was good enough even to finish off, until the record company (in this case CBS who signed him for a solo deal) insisted it was a possibility for a single. Now it is a massive hit, I'm sure he would be delighted!!"

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