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The last Freddie Mercury's completed song recording session was this beautiful, sweet-bitter ballad. We perform it here as an instrumental version for classical solo double bass, church organ and electric guitars. This song has been composed in Switzerland in winter 1990/91 and also recorded in Mountain Studio in Montreux (today Queen Memorial, in Casino). Today on November 24th, 2021 is exactly 30 years since Freddie Mercury's death, I couldn't find a more suitable date to upload this video with his last wonderful creation. That unforgettable artist and his mates from the band Queen have composed also numerous other compositions with the harmonical structure in such high quality that they can be adapted for the classical music performance. Please check also our other two videos with Queen songs “Bijou“ and “Who Wants To Live Forever“ (composed by Brian May) with solo double bass, guitars and the pipe organ, recorded during the same sessions in February 2016. Performed by: Božo Paradžik (double bass & guitars) and Wolfgang Sieber (pipe organ) Recorded in St. Leodegar Church in Lucerne / Hofkirche Luzern (CH) main recording session: 15 February 2016 Post production (guitar tracks, audio & picture, snowfall, end scene): 2016-2021 Production by: Božo Paradžik Tools and instruments: 20 track audio native 24 bit recording Derek High double bass built 2000 Handmade gut strings by Gerold Genssler, Berlin Bow master model by Milan Oubrecht microphones by Schoeps (70%), Neumann (20%), Røde and Sennheiser cameras by Panasonic (hacked GH1 and GH2) and Sony A7 II vintage fast lenses: Nikkor, Canon FD, Minolta MD and Voigtlander Nokton guitars: BMG Special white as lead guitar (mods: original Burns tri-sonic pickups and 220k log pots) and original BMG Super as rhythm guitar amps: Vox AC30 HWH with Lyle Caldwel “vintage“ JMI mods and MM clone of Hadon OT & choke / Laney L5 studio head / Boss Stereo Chorus, Range Master clone Treble Booster (rhythm guitar) and Vox VBM1 played through Celestion Greenback (lead guitar) Sheet music info: this composition is under copyright protection, I haven't purchased the licence for sharing or selling the music. Sharing (even for free) would bring me into the illegal position, which I will not do. So please save your and my time and don't even ask for the sheet music, thank you for understanding.
