The well-known Freddie Mercury fan page on Instagram, Freddie Mercury Club posted a really rare performance video of “You Take My Breath Away” and shared some part from Freddie’s really little-known interview.
As you will read the caption below, Freddie Mercury stated that people think Freddie and Queen members are over complexed, but he doesn’t agree with that.
Here is the caption:
“43 years ago Freddie performed “You Take My Breath Away” for the very first time at Hyde Park before even recording it in the studio. . ✨Written by Freddie, “You Take My Breath Away” is based on the Japanese pentatonic scale and the song is the second track on A Day at the Races album which was released in December 19th 1976.
Here’s Freddie’s comment on the song:
Freddie Mercury in an interview on Capital Radio: “This one I did myself, I multi tracked myself. So the others weren’t used on this for the voices. I played piano and basically, I don’t know how we managed to stay this simple you know, with all our over dubs and things. People seem to think that we’re over complexed, and it’s not true. It depends on the individual track really, if it needs it – we do it. So this is pretty sparse actually by Queen and our standards.”