This piano ballad was written by Freddie Mercury and is based on the Japanese pentatonic scale. According to Brian May, Japan was a big influence on Queen, as we can hear through songs like "Teo Torriatte" from the same album.
Freddie Mercury never said who inspired this love song, but there are two likely suspects: 1) His lover David Minns, who he started dating in 1975, around the time he wrote this song. 2) His lover Mary Austin, whom he lived with for six years (1970-1976) and remained friends with until his death. Upon his death in 1991, Mercury left Austin his house in London.
Freddie Mercury said 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."
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