78. Love of My Life - Queen/Brian May - Guitar Solo Cover

Such a pretty song written by Freddie, with another huge guitar arrangement at the end. Recorded in delightful HD so you can watch my Red Special and weird hands do their thing in more detail than normal. He finds a harmonic in this that doesn't appear to exist on my guitar, I'd tried to do it justice but this is as close as I can manage. Don't think this song needed a harp though. Still learning Vegas, none of the things I want to do are where you'd expect them to be...

Stolen from Wikipedia:
"Love of My Life" is a ballad by the British rock band Queen from their 1975 album A Night at the Opera. The song was written by Freddie Mercury about Mary Austin, with whom he had a long term relationship in the early 1970s. After performing the song in South America in 1981, the version from their live album Live Killers reached number 1 in the singles chart in Argentina and Brazil, and stayed in the charts in Argentina for an entire year.

Freddie Mercury wrote it on the piano and guitar first, and Brian May rearranged the song for acoustic 12-string guitar for live performances, also lowering the key by a semitone. May contributed occasional guitar phrases to the original recording and played the swooping harp glissandos by pasting together multiple takes of single chords. The song is an example of Mercury's familiarity with rubato phrasing, showcasing his classical piano influences, notably by Chopin and Beethoven.

With its similar lyrical theme, the Roger Taylor penned single "These Are the Days of Our Lives" would later hearken back to "Love of My Life", twice using the line "I still love you". At the end of "These Are the Days of Our Lives", Mercury simply speaks those words, as he would often do in live versions of "Love of My Life".

During the voyage of the space shuttle Columbia (STS-107), Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, asked to play the song. The song was played in the shuttle and Ramon said: "A special good morning to my wife, Rona, the love of my life." Ramon died in the Columbia disaster shortly thereafter, during its return to the atmosphere in 2003.

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[CrossCuntryFranco]

The harmonic is basically feedback. If you were to play the solo with a sixpence and let the string ring out, the feedback would come. :)

[rocketman]

Thank you! I was actually looking for this by Brian May, however all his live versions seem to be on acoustic, not the Red. In my opinion, not only his most beautiful, but one of the most beautiful solos ever. Well done!

[LaupiasSamarialainen]

I love the low tones at the end. They feel make me feel so weird

[konstapelwalander]

That tone is fucking great! Well done!

[kmleonardokm]

0:10 creo que en un show habia escuchado ese solo de brian, pero estuve buscando y no me aparecio, hasta creo que no existe ese solo en un show o en la pelicula

[shdshshd]

Thank you so much aha I was looking for this

[tuana]

What are the effects/ setting you use ? Can someone please help ❤

[brickmasterneo]

I was wondering what the pickup switch’s you have on

[manueldollynainggolan]

can you make the tab bro? i wanna to learn this solo guitar...thanks :)

[goku-giri]

Good! (Your shirt is beautiful, where you have buy it?)

[ringmerscience]

please joe cant you make a page that shows the tab of the four guitars part thanks!

[federicofaridgase]

great! can you tell me how you do it to get May tone? any effect? any pedal?