Love of My Life (Queen song)

"Love of My Life"
Song by Queen
from the album A Night at the Opera
PublishedQueen Music Ltd.
Released21 November 1975 (1975-11-21)
Recorded1975
StudioRockfield (Rockfield, Wales)
GenreSoft rock
Length3:39 (album version)
3:33 (Queen Forever version)
Label
Songwriter(s)Freddie Mercury
Producer(s)

"Love of My Life" is a song by the British rock band Queen from their 1975 album A Night at the Opera.[1] The song is a sentimental ballad, notably featuring a harp played by Brian May.[2]

After Queen performed the song in South America in 1981, the version from their live album Live Killers reached number 1 in the singles chart in Argentina and Brazil, and stayed in the charts in both countries for an entire year.[3][4]

Mercury wrote it on the piano and guitar first, and May rearranged the song for acoustic 12-string guitar for live performances, also lowering the key by a minor third. May contributed occasional guitar phrases to the original recording and played the swooping harp glissandos by pasting together multiple takes of single chords.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference allmusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ A Night at the Opera (Media notes). EMI Records. 1975. EMTC 103.
  3. ^ Jones, Lesley-Ann (2012). Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury. Simon and Schuster. p. 198.
  4. ^ “Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock”. p.164. Voyageur Press. Retrieved 12 July 2011