Queen- Love of My Life REACTION & REVIEW
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![[RAPPER REACTION] QUEEN - LOVE OF MY LIFE](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/llgoAY9uf3s/mqdefault.jpg)
I understand that Brian learned to play the Harp specifically for this track. No mean feat!
The live version of this is just Freddie and Brian playing guitar. The interaction with the crowd is unreal. The album version is so beautiful. Thanks for the reaction and please continue your journey with Queen!
Freddie is such a genius a true legend no one can replace you Fred
The backing vocals were all Freddie. Beautiful♥
I sang this with Queen at Wembley (along with 80,000 others)
So beautiful! No wonder it’s a crowd favorite.
The rapport between Freddie and his audience was a thing of beauty during this killer ballad!
An absolute gem of a song 👏👏
Thanks, JP! this was the way the song was written and intended.. based on Freddie's piano.. (Brian actually learned harp for this... ).. the harmonies are so beautiful... but as noted below, they came to perform it live... with just Freddie & Brian.. guitar-based.. appreciate you hearing this first... then you can appreciate then transition to live.. enjoyed your reaction!
"We will remember as we grow older and everything's all by the way..." achingly beautiful.
No click track was harmed during the making of this song
Can't wait for the ballad from the album A Kind Of Magic 😊❤👑
I have to agree with you JP, as a ballad, this is as close to perfect as it gets.
The thing with this album, it has no specific style, it is varied and full of surprises...
I don’t think Freddie gets enough credit for his piano playing. You can tell he is classically trained and very good. I love live versions of this song where the audience sings along. It’s a very difficult vocal melody, but some audiences are great. I’m traveling today but when I get a chance to stop, I’ll see if I can find a live video as an example.
Such a beautiful song
The live acoustic version became a staple, but the studio version is special for most fans.
Hi JP. DP from UK. This is The Closest Thing To Heaven. I've run out of superlatives for tracks on this album. And we still have the piece de resistance to come. Great description of yours btw - yes, it's the complete opposite of a power ballad.
Now, this is my favorite song on the album ♥️
"Love of My Life", heard but not seen. "Pictures At An Exhibition", creates the scene. A Night At the Opera, with the Love of My Life, my Queen. Peace & Love.
This song, live is great. Alot of crowd participation. Should react to a live version.
Damn what a gorgeous song..
You must listen to Love of My Life, live in Rock in Rio. The crowd, 250,000 sing the song to Freddie. It is marvelous.
Love of my life is a piano sonata...style....in the court of Marie Antoniete!! uff
I wonder if JP will do the entire Queen discography. "A Day at the Races" which is also the name of a Marx Brothers movie is worth listening to as well. The first track "Tie your Mother Down" is a great opening track.
''Sheer Bloody Poetry" - The Times.
IMO A Day at the Races is Queen's best album. And I prefer You Take My Breath Away to this track.
@@79BlackRose I agree on both counts.
Live version is missing THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BACKGROUND VOCALS ever made! So glad you did the studio version! (Everyone does life). Next song, all the “Dixieland Jazz band” is ALL BRIANS GUITAR!!!!!!
The first rock album I bought! I knew Queen from "Killer Queen" and when "Bohemian Rhapsody" hit the charts I just had to get that album! Never regretted it and still like to listen to the album. Wonderful playing throughout and it opened up my taste for varied music as on this album is being displayed. And the love for longer songs and mini-symphonies started here as well. This song is another example of the variations in songs Queen was able to perform. Love it! Not much after that I looked for the older albums and bought each album after "A Night At The Opera" upon release. Great catalog of music.
This is so beautiful coming out of the Prophet Song.
Only Brian May could make an electric guitar sound like a cello. Pure genius.
I'm sure he had a little help from the Deacy amp.... he used it a lot during many recordings to give him his 'orchestral' effect... He is a genius, along with the other three... Love this song.
This is my #1 track on this album. Prophet Song #2.
It’s called a trill. Freddie’s classical training comes thru. Very Bach. Brian played the harp.
This is as good as music can be.
Please see Love of Life in Argentina, audience sings to Freddie.It's beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤Freddie Forever
The Scorpions do a very good cover of this. Not a metal version, but a ballad like this.
guitar sound flute!! brian is amazing efects.
Mays guitar influenced me so much. First before I knew much about recording I thought I could buy an effect pedal to sound like him. So I amassed an array of pedals. That turned out to be a good thing but of course did not make me sound like him. Later when I got a 4 track recorder some of the first things I did was little guitar orchestrations. And that actually teaches you a lot about tone and EQ and combining sounds. Between May and Belew the idea that you can make your guitar sound like anything inspired me towards being that type of guitarist.
Brian also used the Deacy amp for many orchestral effects.... all 4 are geniuses....
@@susanp.7954 yes later on I read about it and even later I saw him demonstrating its tones. I had to make do with my tone knob. But learned a lot from that. Also worked out the echoplexes delay harmony technique. But I do it with Ebow.
If you're interested in the background of the song, it's said it was written for Freddie's girlfriend, Mary Austen. (And you'll find more details of that through Google if you want.) The official Queen website has a article on it.
They're different songs (and it's a song that's been with me just about all my life, so oddly... ) but oddly enough it makes me think of *Adville* by Major Parkinson. No idea why. Might be because the piano in that one goes all neo-classical as well. Maybe. Just makes me think of it, that's all.
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Probably a happy problem to have, but its almost a shame that folks practically ignore the album version and immediately bring up live versions of "Love Of My Life" because the album version is absolutely gorgeous.
Hope you continue on with A Day At The Races. Its very much A Night At The Opera: Part 2 and I find it a more consistent listen. I'd put "You Take My Breath Away" (The ballad on Races) above "Love Of My Life".
So beautiful ❤
Those backing vocals are so tight you'd be forgiven for thinking that a harmonizer was used, no harmonizers back in them days though folks.
For Mary?
On the one hand this is a very good example of Freddie's great ability to write interesting chord progressions that you would never come up with playing guitar, on the other it drags for me and is one I'm happy to skip. It's one I think works best in alive environment with a stripped back arrangement.
You're right Justin. This IS how you do a ballad. So restrained yet sweet and full bodied when needed. Would expect nothing less from Queen. ✌
They've got it down! Ty Bruce
@@JustJP You're welcome bud. Keep up the great reactions/reviews!
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Upon the first listen, Love of My Life did not land well with me. Since then, I've had plenty of time to learn to appreciate it's many fine points, and I have "allowed" it to worm its way into my heart...
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First things first. "Love of My Life" is the best _composition_ in this record. Not the best song (" '39" is), but the best realized piece of music these guys wrote for this record. It has a really long tune, which showcases Mercury's facility with melodies, and the arrangement is first rate. Mercury's neo-classical piano and May's "Red Special as cello" treatment are just what this song needed. There is an almost perfect analog to this song called "You Take My Breath Away" in Queen's follow up record _A Day at the Races_ , that I believe is meant to be listened together with "Love of My Life". Oh, and this is a total afterthought, in the 1992 Wembley tribute to Freddie Mercury, Nuno Bettencourt and Gary Cerone of the band Extreme did a version of this song. Bettencourt transcribed the piano parts for acoustic guitar and he was magnificent. Give it a listen.
'39' the best song? Not many would agree on that one.
@@Owlstretchingtime78 I've been listening to Queen for a good 40 years, and I bet that most people can't name, much less heard, more than 5 songs by this band. So the idea that "most people" would know better doesn't really fly. I also know that a claim to authority isn't a total guarantee of knowledge.
One hundred years from now, six or seven generations removed from this album's release, the songs that people would gravitate to would be the ones that are easier to sing/play or the most interesting to adapt. "Love of My Life" is by far the best composition, the only song in this album that qualifies as an art song, and " '39", which is a folk song, is the most memorable. A heartwarming _story_ wrapped in a beautiful melody backed by interesting chord changes.
Think quick. Was Woodie Guthrie a better songwriter than Bob Dylan? And what's Guthrie's best known, most beloved song? Now you get what I mean?
@Azabaxe80 My bad. For some reason i was confusing '39' with 'Sweet Lady'. This album was my debut purchase as a bloody 9 year old! 👍
Still played in their live set to this day.
It's just better to say which song is your favorite one on the album
Please JP the March of the black Queen. Have u ever heard this track? Play it!
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I think it was fine until they put the harp in at the end, that pushed it over the top for me.
In what way?
Fantastic song......except......he/she/it couldn't have been the love of his life if they left him. Whoops.
She was always the love of Freddie's life... even though they never could be together, he considered her his common-law wife and best friend he could count on.. they were life-long partners, her managing his businesses, house , financials, etc.....she stayed by him until the day he died..... he left almost everything to her and her children....
@@susanp.7954 And then she auctioned it all off. Greed of my life, indeed.
@@SpaceCattttt ... I understand Mary's reasoning... she's now in her 70's and has to look after herself and her future... she stated she had to get her own things in order... she couldn't handle the responsibility anymore..... her auctioning things off gives fans a chance to have their own little piece of Freddie... and a lot of the money went to Mercury Phoenix Trust and Elton John AIDS Foundation.
@@susanp.7954 Well, I would've preferred it if she donated the lot to a museum so that everyone could enjoy it.
And Elton John is rich enough to buy a small country, so he could easily donate 90% of his fortune to the cause and still live an insanely comfortable life.
@@SpaceCattttt .. I agree, but maybe they did donate to a museum, too...Maybe some items went over to Switzerland .. I know they have a huge following there, especially for Freddie's birthday.... Both AIDS foundations fight AIDS across the world, not just there in England ... It's for a good cause no matter what... Freddie would be happy, as he was a very giving man...
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