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22 ìàé 2021 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY Undergoes Eye Surgery |
14 àïð 2021 : |
BRIAN MAY & KERRY ELLIS Unveil Video For "Panic Attack 2021" (BOB WHITEHILL Edit) |
25 ÿíâ 2021 : |
Total Guitar Readers Vote BRIAN MAY For Playing The Greatest Solo Of All Time - "I Am Not Worthy, But It's Much Appreciated" |
3 äåê 2020 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY Was 'Shocked' 70 Million Americans Voted For DONALD TRUMP In 2020 Presidential Election |
10 íîÿ 2020 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY: The Rest Of The World Is 'Rejoicing' In The Fact That It Is Getting Its 'Best Friend Back, Our Friend America' |
13 àâã 2020 : |
QUEEN Guitarist BRIAN MAY Thanks Firefighters For Saving Home From Wildfire |
7 àâã 2020 : |
BRIAN MAY Joins NUNO BETTENCOURT, STEVE VAI, ZAKK WYLDE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN And TOSIN ABASI For 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Jam (Video) |
13 èþë 2020 : |
BRIAN MAY Says 'There Is A Chance' His Collaboration With TONY IOMMI Will See Light Of Day |
17 èþí 2020 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY Is 'Touched' By Praise From NUNO BETTENCOURT And STEVE VAI |
12 èþí 2020 : |
NUNO BETTENCOURT And STEVE VAI React To BRIAN MAY Being Named Greatest Rock Guitarist |
27 ìàé 2020 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY Thanks Fans For 'Torrent Of Love And Support' After Heart Attack |
26 ìàé 2020 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY Says He Was 'Very Near Death' After Suffering 'Small Heart Attack' |
8 ìàé 2020 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY 'Can't Walk Or Sleep' After Ripping Buttock Muscles During 'Over-Enthusiastic Gardening' |
12 àïð 2020 : |
All-Star Band Featuring JEFF SCOTT SOTO, ALEX SKOLNICK, STU HAMM, BUMBLEFOOT, DEBBY HOLIDAY And More Take On BRIAN MAY's "Hammer To Fall" Challenge; Video Available |
8 àïð 2020 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY On BORIS JOHNSON's Hospitalization: 'I Had A Feeling He Wasn't Doing Too Well' |
1 àïð 2020 : |
QUEEN Guitarist BRIAN MAY Launches "Hammer To Fall" - Microstudy #8 - "This Is A Challenge, Jam With Me!" (Video) |
25 ìàð 2020 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY Says U.K.'s Stay-At-Home Order Is 'Long Overdue' |
25 ìàð 2020 : |
QUEEN Guitarist BRIAN MAY Posts Playthrough Video Of "Bohemian Rhapsody" Solo From Self-Isolation |
19 ìàð 2020 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY: 'Why We Must Take Extreme Measures Now' To Slow Coronavirus |
18 äåê 2019 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY Says U.K. Election Result Is 'A Wake-Up Call For Us' |
17 äåê 2019 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY And ROGER TAYLOR Create Special Film To Send Christmas Message To Fans |
4 äåê 2019 : |
QUEEN Guitarist BRIAN MAY Recovering From Leg Surgery |
12 ñåí 2019 : |
QUEEN Guitarist BRIAN MAY - "Why I Love JOHN LENNON..." |
1 ÿíâ 2019 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY Releases Music Video For First Solo Single In 20 Years |
20 äåê 2018 : |
QUEEN's BRIAN MAY To Launch First Solo Single In 20 Years From NASA |
15 èþí 2017 : |
BRIAN MAY + KERRY ELLIS Release Official Lyric Video For “It’s Gonna Be All Right (The Panic Attack Song)” |
5 àïð 2017 : |
BRIAN MAY + KERRY ELLIS Release “Roll With You” Music Video; Golden Days Album Available This Friday |
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2 àâã 2021
BRIAN MAY Re-Releases "Too Much Love Will Kill You" - "In A Way, It’s The Most Important Song I Ever Wrote,” Says QUEEN Legend; Remastered Music Video Posted
With its vulnerable vocal, tender keys, understated acoustic guitar solo and indelible melody, “Too Much Love Will Kill You” is a standout from Brian May’s 1992 solo album, Back To The Light. May refers to it as, “in a way, the most important song I ever wrote.”
Originally emerging as a single on August 24, 1992, it earned Brian a solo hit when it reached #5 in the UK Singles Chart. Ahead of that release, a visibly moved and note-perfect May previewed it before some 72,000 fans at Wembley Stadium’s Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in April 1992, perhaps cementing a misunderstanding about its origins.
“My excuse for singing it is, I think, it’s just the best thing I have to offer,” said May, by way of his on-stage introduction to the song. His reason for singing it was not, as was often thought, that he wrote the song about the legendary Queen singer, who had died in 1991. The song itself stretches back to 1986-7, when Brian wrote it with two friends, songwriters Elizabeth Lamers and Frank Musker. May was in Los Angeles at the time, “far away from home” and in a “tangled state of mind”, trying to find some release from a period of profound personal upheaval.
As Brian explains: “'Too Much Love Will Kill You' is a big, long story and the version that you hear on Back To The Light is the original. It has the original keyboard that I played when we were writing the song. Me and Frank Musker, and his lady friend at the time, were in a room and it was like a therapy session for me. I was just pouring out all these words because I felt like I was trapped. I was in a place that I could never, ever get out of. All I could do is write about it. This is the only song I wrote in that probably nine months or a year period.”
In writing about it, Brian laid everything on the line. “The pain will make you crazy”, he sings. And although his lyrics stem from a period in his life, it is that very specific honesty that lends them a universal power. Certainly, for Brian, the words hold their resonance years on. “The things that I struggle with are still there. ‘Too Much Love Will Kill You’ is a chronicle of what’s actually buried deepest inside me. Every word on it, as I listen to it now, every word counts for me. Every word I would still stand by. It’s exactly how I am inside. I say ‘am’ in the present tense because I’ve come to the realisation that I haven’t changed that much. It’s the one opportunity I had in my life to tell it as I saw it. In a way, it’s the most important song I ever wrote because it does sum up life’s journey for me.”
The personal power of the song stems to a great extent from Brian’s restraint in the arrangement. As he recognized, a song so entrenched in personal suffering needed to be true to its maker’s voice, with no undue embellishments. “The version I did is anchored to the source. There’s nothing in there which doesn’t just speak about the emotion of the original writing. There’s no point in the original where the drums kick in and it becomes big. It never gets there. It’s all tentative and all quite delicate. And the raw emotion of the way I sing it is the way I feel. I wrote it, I feel it.”
And yet Brian knew and understood that listeners felt it too. Many Queen fans took it to heart as a song connected to Freddie. Meanwhile, Queen themselves took it to heart. A bigger version was recorded in 1989 with Freddie’s vocal, which would later surface on Made In Heaven, the Queen album completed after Freddie’s death and released in 1995. Released as a single the following year, Queen’s recording earned May’s tender confessional an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically, a testimony to the abiding power of a song strong enough to grow beyond its origins and stand on its own legs.
“I loved working with Freddie to do that vocal. We were aware that the song was becoming something different, and it meant something different. We were all aware of it. We obviously knew Freddie’s days were probably limited barring a miracle. So the song started to feel like something different. And we didn’t shy away from making it very big, very Queen-like. And I like it.
“But if you want to hear what the song originally had poured into it, with the blood, sweat and tears of my life, then that’s this version.”
“Too Much Love Will Kill You” is available to download and stream now.
Back To The Light will be available in a Collector’s Edition box set featuring an exclusive white-vinyl LP, two CDs, a 32-page book, a 12” art print, a download card and an enamel badge all presented in a lift-lid box. A limited-edition (x1,000) of the same box-set is available exclusively on Queen Online Store with a signed 12” art print.
The album will also be released on 1LP black 180g vinyl, 1CD, Deluxe 2CD, Cassette and digital formats, with Out Of The Light available in the box set, on the 2CD and digital formats. A limited-edition 1LP Picture Disc will also be available exclusively on Queen Online Store.
Pre-order here.
Tracklistings:
Back To The Light
"The Dark"
"Back To The Light"
"Love Token"
"Resurrection"
"Too Much Love Will Kill You"
"Driven By You"
"Nothin’ But Blue"
"I’m Scared"
"Last Horizon"
"Let Your Heart Rule Your Head"
"Just One Life"
"Rollin’ Over"
- Produced by Brian May.
- Co-produced and engineered by Justin Shirley-Smith.
- All vocals, backing vocals, guitars, keyboards and anything else around – by Brian May unless otherwise stated.
Out Of The Light
"Nothin’ But Blue" - Guitar Version
"Too Much Love Will Kill You" – Guitar Version
"Just One Life" – Guitar Version
"Driven By You Two"
"Driven By You" – Ford Ad Version
"Tie Your Mother Down" (Featuring Slash) - Live on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 5th April 1993
"Too Much Love Will Kill You" - Live at the Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, 6th April 1993
"’39 / Let Your Heart Rule Your Head" - Live at the Brixton Academy, 15th June 1993
"Last Horizon" - Live at the Brixton Academy, 15th June 1993
"We Will Rock You" - Live at the Brixton Academy 15 June 1993
"Driven By You" - Cozy and Neil Version ’93
- The Live tracks are played by The Brian May Band from the ‘Back To The Light’ Tour 1993.
- Brian May: Vocals/Guitar, Cozy Powell: Drums. Neil Murray: Bass, Spike Edney: Keyboards, Jamie Moses: Guitar/Vocals, Cathy Porter: Vocals, Shelley Preston: Vocals.
- “And a special thank you to Slash”.
- Audio Supervised by Justin Shirley-Smith and Kris Fredriksson.
- Mastered by Bob Ludwig & Adam Ayan, Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME.
- Audio Restoration Kris Fredriksson.
- Half Speed vinyl mastering Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios.
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