Too Much Love Will Kill You
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| Single by Brian May | ||||
| from the album Back to the Light | ||||
| Released | 1992 | |||
| Format | CD single, 7" | |||
| Recorded | 1988-1992 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 4:26 | |||
| Label | Parlophone (Europe), Hollywood (US) |
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| Writer(s) | Brian May Frank Musker Elizabeth Lamers |
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| Producer | Brian May, Justin Shirley-Smith | |||
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| Single by Queen | ||||
| from the album Made in Heaven | ||||
| B-side | "We Will Rock You"/"We Are the Champions" "Spread Your Wings" |
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| Released | 6 March 1996 | |||
| Format | CD single, 7" | |||
| Recorded | 1988-1995 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 4:20 | |||
| Label | Parlophone (Europe), Hollywood (US) |
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| Writer(s) | Brian May Frank Musker Elizabeth Lamers |
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| Producer | Queen | |||
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"Too Much Love Will Kill You" is a song written by Queen guitarist Brian May, Frank Musker, and Elizabeth Lamers.[1] The song was recorded by Queen around 1988 or before, and was intended to be on the band's The Miracle album in 1989, but did not make the cut. After Freddie Mercury's death in 1991, May arranged a solo version, which he performed at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992,[2] and subsequently included on his solo album Back to the Light that same year. Released as a single, it reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart.
[edit] Queen version
In 1995, the remaining members of Queen elected to include the original recording of "Too Much Love Will Kill You", with Mercury on vocals, on the Made in Heaven album, released four years after Mercury's death.[3] Queen's version is a power ballad characteristic of the late 1980s time period in which it was recorded, with heavy use of keyboards and electric guitar. It reached #15 on the UK Singles Chart in 1996. Although it failed to duplicate the chart success of May's solo version, Queen's version of the song has since come to be regarded as the definitive version, after being awarded "Best Song Musically and Lyrically" at the 1997 Novello Awards (May said later that if there was one song that he would have wanted to win an award for, it was this one[1]), and being included on Queen's Greatest Hits III.[4]
[edit] Other versions
In 2003, May and Luciano Pavarotti performed a rendition of "Too Much Love Will Kill You", at the tenor's benefit concert held in Modena, Italy.[5]
Myleene Klass, Jovit Baldivino, Katie Melua, Claire Sweeney and Arnel Pineda of Journey have also performed the song.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Billboard 21 Jun 1997 Billboard. Retrieved January 16, 2011
- ^ The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert: Too Much Love Will Kill You Ultimate Queen. Retrieved 2 July 2011
- ^ Made in Heaven (Track 8) Ultimate Queen. Retrieved 2 July 2011
- ^ Brian May interview. BBC Radio 2. Broadcast 12 September 2005.
- ^ Pavarotti and Friends 2003; Press and News Retrieved January 21, 2011
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