вЂњItвЂ™s fair to say she was the love of FreddieвЂ™s life,вЂќ said May. It is believed to be about his former lover Mary Austin. One of his most haunting break-up songs was вЂњLove of My Life,вЂќ from the album Night at the Opera.

I just want to put myself across in my songs in the best way I can,вЂќ Mercury said, quoted in the book Freddie Mercury: A Life in His Own Words. I think thatвЂ™s my natural gift, so thatвЂ™s all I want to do in my songs. вЂњI go through torture and pain in terms of love. Although there are more famous Queen love songs, вЂњFunny How Love IsвЂќ captures the innocence and optimism of the band at the start of their journey.Д¬lick to load video Love of My Life (1975) вЂњFunny How Love IsвЂќ was sung in demanding high-register vocals, which was the reason Mercury declined to sing the song in live shows. вЂњThat album was when we first really got into production, and went completely over the top,вЂќ commented Taylor. It started out, in the first five takes, as a piano-led acoustic song, and evolved into a вЂњwall of soundвЂќ track via MercuryвЂ™s friend and producer Robin Cable. вЂњFunny How Love Is,вЂќ though, was a sunny, optimistic reflection on how love is omnipresent (вЂњlove is anywhere youвЂ™re bound to beвЂќ). MercuryвЂ™s attitude to writing about love changed over the years, from the optimism of вЂњFunny How Love IsвЂќ (from their second album Queen II) to the mid-1980s, when he was writing edgy songs about love being dangerous and referring in interviews to his own love life as similar to a game of Russian roulette.

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