5.14.14 Adam News & Info, Sunset Grins and Countdown
May 13, 2014 23:08:41 GMT -5
Post by tinafea on May 13, 2014 23:08:41 GMT -5
Sunset Grins
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#36 “You Take My Breath Away”/”Long Away” (1976)
"You Take My Breath Away"
Written by Freddie Mercury.
Released on A Day at the Races on December 10, 1976.
Freddie wrote this song based on the harmonic minor scale. All of the vocals and piano were done by Fred, and he performed it by himself at Hyde Park before recording it. There is a vocal interlude between this song and the next one that begins with a wash of vocals (repeating the words "take my breath") created by echoes (of a multitracked Mercury) regenerating in reverse, which gradually evolves into the repeated phrase "you take my (breath away)" and reintegrates into the next track on A Day at the Races, "Long Away".
"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
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
Musicians:
Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals, piano
Brian May - guitars
John Deacon - bass guitar
Roger Taylor - cymbals
Produced by: Queen
“You Take My Breath Away” Album track
youtu.be/oO2SIa1TEDQ
"You Take My Breath Away" Live
Queen performed this song regularly for almost a year from September 1976 through June 1977, and then once again in April 1978. It is a lovely song. One of the Queen songs that was not a single and is not famous but should be.
“You Take My Breath Away” Live At Hyde Park, 1976
youtu.be/UBBne8R66xo
“You Take My Breath Away” Live At Earls Court June 6, 1977 (2011 Remaster)
youtu.be/0cf3ZV_lJG0
"You Take My Breath Away" Lyrics
youtu.be/g_1omWwSrFU
You Take My Breath Away
Oooh oooh take it take it all away
Oooh oooh take my breath away
Oooh oooh you take my breath away
Look into my eyes and you'll see I'm the only one
You've captured my love stolen my heart
Changed my life
Every time you make a move you destroy my mind
And the way you touch
I lose control and shiver deep inside
You take my breath away
You can reduce me to tears with a single sigh
Every breath that you take
Any sound that you make is a whisper in my ear
I could give up all my life for just one kiss
I would surely die if you dismiss me from your love
You take my breath away
So please don't go
Don't leave me here all by myself
I get ever so lonely from time to time
I will find you anywhere you go
I'll be right behind you
Right until the ends of the earth
I'll get no sleep until I find you
To tell you that you just take my breath away
I will find you anywhere you go
Right until the ends of the earth
I'll get no sleep until I find you
To tell you when I've found you
I love you
Take my breath take my breath ... away
This is a fantasy picture. Queen never performed "Long Away"
“Long Away”
Written by: Brian May
Released on A Day at the Races on December 10, 1976 and as a single in the US, Canada and New Zealand on June 7, 1977.
"Long Away" was composed and sung by Brian. He used a Burns Double Six 12-string electric guitar for the rhythm parts instead of his Red Special. Brian had wanted to use a Rickenbacker because he admired John Lennon, but did not get along well with the thin neck of the instrument. The single was released in the US, Canada and New Zealand but did not chart anywhere.
Personnel
Musicians:
Brian May - lead and backing vocals, guitars
John Deacon - bass guitar
Roger Taylor - drums, backing vocals
Produced by: Queen
“Long Away” Album track
youtu.be/QaSB0M7iTpA
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“Long Away” Acapella
youtu.be/toq3Tvz9fYc
“Long Away” (Instrumental)
youtu.be/HZeg8xueUtU
“Long Away” Live
Queen never performed this song live, but Q+PR did perform it.
Queen + Paul Rodgers “Long Away” Nagoya Japan, November 1, 2005
youtu.be/qZi2A3YUpDA
“Long Away” Lyrics
youtu.be/6e06qoOTrkE
Long Away
You might believe in heaven
I would not care to say
For every star in heaven
There's a sad soul here today
Wake up in the morning with a good face
Stare at the moon all day
Lonely as a whisper on a star chase
Does anyone care anyway?
For all the prayers in heaven
So much of life's this way
Did we leave our way behind us?
Such a long long way behind us
Who knows when now who knows where
Where the light of day will find us?
Look for the day
Take heart my friend we love you
Though it seems like you're alone
A million light's above you
Smile down upon your home
Hurry put your troubles in a suitcase
Come let the new child play
Lonely as a whisper on a star chase
I'm leaving here,I'm long away
For all the stars in heaven
I would not live I could not live this way
Did we leave our way behind us?
Such a long long way behind us
Leave it for some hopeless lane
Such a long long way such a long long way
Such a long long way I'm looking for
Still looking for that day
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