15th August 2025

Queen - 'B-SIDES'

"Freddie told me one day he had a surprise for me - he said, 'I've written a song about you - but it needs your touch on it!' I think, curiously, we were both working on songs separately, which referred to each other. Can't remember which one of mine it was, since a lot of my songs were obliquely aimed at him (as well as to be sung by him!). Anyway, we got in the studio and he played this song. Now, whether it was really about me, I don't know. But I thought it was fab. I know he wrote it in about 15 minutes!. As to why not on the album (The Game) - well, Freddie deliberately wrote it as a B-side to fill a gap, so I imagine the album was already sewn up." Brian May on 'Soul Brother'

Click here to listen to the new specially compiled 'B-SIDES' playlist - overseen by Roger Taylor and Brian May.