Queen
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The Works
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I'M IN LOVE WITH MY CAR
Index A Night at the Opera I'm in Love With My Car

TRACK-LIST
Death on Two Legs
Mercury
Lazing on a Sunday...
Mercury
I'm in Love With My Car
Taylor
You're My Best Friend
Deacon
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May
Sweet Lady
May
Seaside Rendezvous
Mercury
The Prophet's Song
May
Love of My Life
Mercury
Good Company
May
Bohemian Rhapsody
Mercury
God Save the Queen
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ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL
Roy Thomas Baker
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Gary Langan
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Gary Lyons
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Mike Stone
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Dennis Weinreich

STUDIOS USED
Rockfield Quad.
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Rockfield Coach
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Lansdowne
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Olympic
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Roundhouse
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Scorpio
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SARM
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INSTRUMENTS
Bechstein Grand Piano
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Fender Precision Bass
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Ludwig Drums
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May & May Guitar

DEVICES
3M 79 16-Track Tape-Recorder
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Acoustic 301 Cabinet (x3)
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Acoustic 370 Amplifier (x3)
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AKG Microphones
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Alfa Romeo Alfetta Car
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Altec Monitor Speakers
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beyerdinamic Microphones
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Cadac Console
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Cadac Monitor Speakers
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Dolby Noise-Reduction System
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fOXX Foot Phaser Pedal
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Hiwatt Amplifier
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JBL Monitor Speakers
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Lockwood-Tannoy Monitor
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MCI JH-24 Tape-Recorder
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Neumann Microphones
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Olympic Console
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Olympic Monitor Speakers
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Pearl Microphones
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Premier C Drumsticks
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Rangemaster Treble-Booster
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Rosser Bespoke Modules
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Sony Microphones
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Sound City 4" x 12" Cabinet (x2)
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Studer 24-Track Tape-Recorder
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Telefunken 24-T Tape-Recorder
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Telefunken Microphones
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Trident B-Range Console
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Vox AC30 Amplifiers
QUEEN ARE

John Deacon
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Brian May
       
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Freddie Mercury
       
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Roger Taylor

OVERVIEW

One of the best songs Roger ever wrote, and featuring some amazing vocals from him. Played live often between News and Flash tours.

SONGWRITING
Intro
Verse
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Middle-Eight
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Outro

The main key is E minor, and the progression used for most of the song is i > III > VII > VI (same as Nirvana's Polly [written by Kurt Cobain in 1988]). The outro is a perfect cadence in D Major, and it almost sounds like taken from a different song.

Metre is 3/4, like Brian's Sweet Lady.

INSTRUMENTS

Basic Queen combo as in the previous two tracks in the album: piano, bass, drums and guitars. Very nice drumming all throughout.

VOCALS

Roger hits some E's without falsetto, which is quite impressive (though he'd done that earlier in Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll and would repeat in More of That Jazz).

QUOTES

Sometimes I wish that would've been a single in its time. Of course, I made just as much money on it. It was the backside of Bohemian Rhapsody, so I probably made more money that way.

Roger Taylor, Detroit Free Press, 6th August 1982


We always rowed about money. A lot of terrible injustices take place over songwriting. The major one is B-sides. Like, Bohemian Rhapsody sells a million and Roger gets the same writing royalties as Freddie because he did I'm in Love With My Car. There was contention about that for years.

Brian May, Q, March 1991


I remember my car at the time, because I think we've got the exhaust on the record, and that was a little Alfa Romeo. But I think it was more about people in general, for instance boy racers. In particular we had a sound guy/roadie at the time called Jonathan Harris, who was so in love with his car, and that inspired that. I think he had a TR4, Triumph TR4.

Roger Taylor, BBC, 16th November 1997

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