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Post by Doughnut on Nov 28, 2020 10:33:29 GMT
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Post by fcb101 on Nov 28, 2020 11:35:57 GMT
Brilliant musician, intelligent person and wonderful guy!
And he clearly is very diplomatic too ;-)
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Post by Steve on Nov 28, 2020 12:45:15 GMT
Cheers!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2020 15:39:08 GMT
Love Fred Mandel. He's a great keyboard player and his contributions to Queen and Elton are great.
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Post by Dimitris on Nov 28, 2020 19:20:42 GMT
Love Fred Mandel. He's a great keyboard player and his contributions to Queen and Elton are great. I totally I agree also he was keyboard player in the Wall album. |
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Post by victorvil on Nov 28, 2020 19:41:09 GMT
Also played with Supertramp in the '83 tour, playing guitar and keyboards. That last tour with Roger Hodgson was a very high point musically.
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Post by Doughnut on Nov 28, 2020 19:52:38 GMT
Also played with Supertramp in the '83 tour, playing guitar and keyboards. That last tour with Roger Hodgson was a very high point musically. I have recently rediscovered Supertramp. |
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Post by jlf on Nov 29, 2020 3:49:02 GMT
"Thirty years on from The Works sessions, how was it to finally hear your piano parts intact on the finished version of Let Me in Your Heart Again from the Queen Forever album?
I’d always liked that track and urged Brian to release it. Brian, Roger, John and myself originally cut that as a four piece for Anita Dobson’s record… and although I didn’t know that Freddie had done a vocal on it, I think it’s one of his best; very raw and right in your face."
WOW did anyone else catch this? Queen minus Freddie had cut it for Anita's record? Is the timeline right here?
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Post by antonio on Nov 29, 2020 12:08:22 GMT
I miss Fred Mandel on the current Elton John band.
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Post by pg on Nov 29, 2020 18:28:25 GMT
"Thirty years on from The Works sessions, how was it to finally hear your piano parts intact on the finished version of Let Me in Your Heart Again from the Queen Forever album? I’d always liked that track and urged Brian to release it. Brian, Roger, John and myself originally cut that as a four piece for Anita Dobson’s record… and although I didn’t know that Freddie had done a vocal on it, I think it’s one of his best; very raw and right in your face." WOW did anyone else catch this? Queen minus Freddie had cut it for Anita's record? Is the timeline right here? No. |
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Post by jlf on Nov 29, 2020 19:05:16 GMT
That's what I thought, I had thought that it was *originally* a Queen song recorded in 1983 before Brian even knew Anita.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2020 12:43:57 GMT
As far as I know, Brian met Anita around 1986, and it was Frederick (Mercury) who introduced them. Perhaps Frederick (Mandel) remembered the song being released on Anita's record and confused the years, that was all.
Great interview anyway, thanks for sharing.
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Post by georg on Nov 30, 2020 13:49:31 GMT
Perhaps Anita's backing track, which we knew featured John, also features Roger and Fred Mandel, and Mandel was surprised to discover that the version recorded during sessions for The Works was released instead as an Anita Dobson single.
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Post by Doughnut on Nov 30, 2020 14:21:36 GMT
That's what I thought, I had thought that it was *originally* a Queen song recorded in 1983 before Brian even knew Anita. Edit Originating from sessions for the band's 1984 album The Works, "Let Me In Your Heart Again" was written by May and originally recorded in Los Angeles in 1983. On the Chris Evans Breakfast Show in September 2014, May revealed that the band had found it impossible to complete the track, despite several versions of the lyrics being written to make it easier for Mercury to sing. They eventually abandoned the song. For Queen Forever, May wove together parts from each of the existing Queen versions, before he and Taylor fleshed out the music. Consequently, the result contains very different lyrics from Anita Dobson's 1988 version. "I was very pleased we had three new tracks to put on [Queen Forever]…" remarked Taylor. "'Let Me In Your Heart Again' is absolutely typical mid-period Queen… When I put the original tape on, it was so astonishingly real, like it had been recorded that morning. I got quite emotional about the way Freddie was doing his thing. It's like suddenly coming across recordings of your parents after they're gone. And then it turns into something rather joyful."[1] |
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Post by victorvil on Dec 3, 2020 11:57:00 GMT
Also played with Supertramp in the '83 tour, playing guitar and keyboards. That last tour with Roger Hodgson was a very high point musically. I have recently rediscovered Supertramp.
This is the last show of the classic lineup in Europe. A couple of weeks later, Roger Hodgson left the band to start his solo career. They were absolutely brilliant live. Fred is in the back with Scott Page.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Dec 14, 2020 6:18:53 GMT
Brilliant musician, intelligent person and wonderful guy! And he clearly is very diplomatic too ;-) Yep - this is why he has worked for decades. He shows up on time, he's skilled, and he keeps the dirty laundry where it belongs.
Thoroughly enjoyable piece.
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