Credits

• Written by: Freddie Mercury
• Produced by: Queen
• Musicians:

Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals, piano

Brian May - guitars

John Deacon - bass guitar

Roger Taylor - cymbals

• Length: 4:40

Discography

Albums:

A Day At The Races, 1976

Singles:

• None

Alternate Versions:

• 1998 eYe Full Instrumental Demo - Electronic Arts DDE05501 101S
• eYe / CD End Demo Composite - Unreleased
• eYe Complete Piano Demo

Queen Talks

"This one I did myself, I multi tracked myself. So the others weren’t used on this for the voices. I played piano and basically, I don’t know how we managed to stay this simple, you know with all our over dubs and things. People seem to think that we’re over complexed, and it’s not true. It depends on the individual track really, if it needs it – we do it. So this is pretty sparse actually by Queen and our standards."

Freddie Mercury - November 1976, Kenny Everett Radio Show

"There's a particular pickup combination which I use for the violin things: the fingerboard pickup and the middle one. Those two working in phase make a very mellow sound. And there's a point on the amplifier where it's just about to get distortioned, but not quite. Instead of using my pick, I tap the fingerboard with the right hand, and that just sets the thing moving. It sustain itself. you hardly need to even tap it any. If you even stand in exactly the right place, it feeds back in any position so I can just warble around and it's very smooth."

Brian May - 1982, On The Record

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