Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own

Country: UK
Format: 7" single, 12" single
Released: 1985
Genre: Progressive rock , Disco
Label: EMI
Writer(s): Freddie Mercury
Producer: Mack and Freddie Mercury

"Living on My Own" is a song by Freddie Mercury, from the album Mr. Bad Guy. It was released as a single (backed with "My Love Is Dangerous") in September 1985 in the UK where it peaked at no.50. The July 1985 release in the United States had "She Blows Hot & Cold" as its B-side.
In 1993, almost two years after Mercury's death, a remix of the song was released and reached no.1 in the UK, becoming Mercury's only solo number one hit. It remained at the top for 2 weeks and was in the charts for a total of 13 weeks. The video for "Living on My Own" featured footage of Mercury's 39th birthday party in 1985 in Munich. On her 2000 Bohemian Summer tour, Hikaru Utada, a number-one selling J-Pop artist, did a cover of the song. She has quoted Mercury as one of her inspirations. She also alludes to "Living on My Own" in her song "This One (Crying Like a Child)" from her album This Is the One.

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• fredie
• mercury
• living
• on
• my
• own
• queen
• mr
• bad
• guy

[2muchalcohol]

Used to dance this song like crazy at this club in my country. Thanks for posting.

[TheMonteloPnixtiss]

@2muchalcohol My pleasure friend! I am jealous that i was too young to dance this song when it was a hit ! But still a great memory for many fans of this kind of music. Thanks for comment. Keep up your GOOD work ;)

[leimonis13]

very nice song

[ingridloreto22]

Esta cancion me encanta es buenisima...

[claudia89beatles]

RIP Freddie!!! Incredible VOICE!!! I LOVE YOU!!

[hidetheweeeed]

I prefer this version from the videoversion, especially the awesome singy part @ 2.54 (it is a bit different, less noticable in the music video)

I really like the video though, but I wish he could have kept the vocals from this version. Nevertheless, the song is really great, the next party I go to, I'm seriously putting this song on! Don't care if the rest of my fellow party-sheeps want to listen to mainstream, sellout, autotuned, robotical crap!