Brian May’s love for spouse Anita Dobson impressed two Queen songs
Today Sir Brian May’s spouse Lady Anita Dobson turns 74 in the present day. The couple married in 2000 having first met in 1986, when the Queen guitarist was nonetheless wed to his first partner Christine Mullen.
Yet falling in love with the actress led the rock legend to have difficult feelings.
After separating from the mom of his three kids James, Louisa and Emily in 1988, he struggled with despair over his perceived failure as a husband and father.
To make issues tougher, his dad Harold died and Freddie Mercury would lose his battle with AIDS in 1991.
During this troublesome time, the star wrote a few songs impressed by his newfound love for Anita.
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The first observe was Too Much Love Will Kill You, which Brian wrote with songwriting friends Elizabeth Lamers and Frank Musker round 1986-7, when he first met Anita and was in a “tangled state of mind”.
Before the music turned one among his tracks on his debut solo Back To The Light, the guitarist had recorded a much bigger Queen model with Freddie in 1989 earlier than he died. This one ended up on the band’s remaining album, 1995’s Made In Heaven.
The 75-year-old beforehand stated of the recording session: “I loved working with Freddie to do that vocal. We were aware that the song was becoming something different, and it meant something different. We were all aware of it. We obviously knew Freddie’s days were probably limited barring a miracle. So the song started to feel like something different. And we didn’t shy away from making it very big, very Queen-like. And I like it.”
The Queen model of Too Much Love Will Kill You earned the guitarist an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. Brian added: “But if you want to hear what the song originally had poured into it, with the blood, sweat and tears of my life, then that’s this version.”
As for the opposite Queen music he wrote impressed by his love for Anita, that was 1989’s I Want It All, which Freddie sadly by no means had the possibility to carry out reside. Just not too long ago the observe’s music video starring the late singer cross over 100 million views on YouTube.