QAL Somebody to Love analysis

Freddie Mercury’s Somebody to Love, among the best known Queen songs of all, was to become the biggest single of the album. It was also its author’s most favourite of his own compositions at the time. Like Bohemian Rhapsody, this recording features complex layered vocal tracks, though this time based on a gospel choir arrangement; a combination of Freddie, Brian and Roger’s multi-tracked voices to achieve the impression of a 100-voice gospel choir. It is staggering to think that the colossal choirs on this recording could have been produced from just three voices, but that is certainly the case. The various band members have stated many times over the years that it is purely good fortunate and luck that the three voices merge so wonderfully together to provide such a distinctive part of the Queen sound.