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"Love Of My Life" -composed by Freddie
Mercury- is one of the most beautiful ballads in the history of rock music, and
a fantastic song to play as piano solo.
This is not a simplified arrangement. Is an
arrangement that will sound quite like the original - with the obvious
difference that all music and secondary melodies must be played by a single
instrument - the piano.
This version follows the studio recording,
not the version made by Queen for their live performances.
My score includes chord symbols, in case
you prefer to play them instead of reading exactly each note I've written.
You can have a listen at YouTube (and
"soon" on Spotify and other digital platforms):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0J013MNcNU
"Love Of My Life" was included on Queens
album "A Night at the Opera" (1975). The ballad was composed for Mary Austin.
Freddie Mercury said about this song:
"Love Of My Life" is adapted on
stage for guitar, but it was written on the piano. I've totally forgotten the
original and if you asked me to play that now, I couldn't. Sometimes, I have to
go back to the music sheet, and I can't read that well either.
(Queen Archives Freddie Mercury Interview,
Melody Maker 05-02-1981)
I hate this thing about trying to recreate
the albums on stage. We sometimes deliberately change. Look at 'Love Of My
Life', for instance. On record I play piano on that but on stage it's just
Brian playing the guitar and me singing it, because it works on stage better
that way.
(Love Of My Life Queenpedia.com Freddie
Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon, Discography, Bibliography,
Charts.)
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