The acoustic version of the song featured on the band's 1979 album Live Killers was recorded at their concert at Festhalle Frankfurt on 2 February of that year. " Love of My Life (Live at Festhalle Frankfurt, 2 Feb '79)" " Now I'm Here" (live at Palais des Sports Lyon, 17 Feb '79) 1979 live single release "Love of My Life (Live at Festhalle Frankfurt, 2 Feb '79)" "Love of My Life" had both May singing a few lines and archive footage of Mercury performing the song during the inaugural Wembley concert in 1986. When played at the Glasgow SECC in the 2008 Cosmos Rocks tour, May dedicated the song to his own mother, who had recently died.ĭuring Rock in Rio 6 in 2015, Queen + Adam Lambert was one of the artists to celebrate the festival's 30th anniversary. In the Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour, May would sing a few lines of the song, then let the audience take over for every verse, as Mercury did.
At that show, May announced that Mercury's mother was at the show and he dedicated the song to her instead. A notable exception is the Sheffield show which yielded the Return of the Champions CD and DVD. After Mercury's death, Brian May has frequently dedicated the song to him in his own live performances. Ī live performance of the song appears in Queen at Wembley from 1986 where again Mercury conducts the audience as they sing the song.
Brian May on the 1981 South American concerts. May contributed occasional guitar phrases to the original recording and played the swooping harp glissandos by pasting together multiple takes of single chords. Mercury wrote it on the piano and guitar first, and Brian May rearranged the song for acoustic 12-string guitar for live performances, also lowering the key by a minor third. A sentimental ballad featuring a harp.Īfter 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. " Love of My Life" is a song by the British rock band Queen from their 1975 album A Night at the Opera.
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