Uploaded by OfficialQueenRomania on Aug 11, 2011
Mercury wrote "Life Is Real" as a tribute to John Lennon, whose murder in 1980 had also previously prompted the band to perform his song "Imagine" on tour. Like Lennon's songs, "Life Is Real" features a sparse piano-based arrangement and a melancholy tone. It is also one of the few Queen songs whose lyrics were written before the music ("Killer Queen" being another). The title may be a reference to the lyric "love is real", from Lennon's 1970 song "Love". It contains the slightly offensive line "... Loving like a whore". It begins with three bell-like piano notes, meant to recall the opening bells in Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over", and "Beautiful Boy". Also, the first two words, "Guilt stains..." are virtually identical interval-wise (though in a different key) to Lennon's first two notes in his song, "Mother".
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Freddy was born in Tanzania, no¿
agninachu 4 months ago
@wantedvirus rolf, since what date Freddy were born in ENGLAND? USE WIKI FOR MORE INFO, MY STUPID FRIEND o/
SadByYou 4 months ago
I love and respect England just because John & Freddy were born there.
wantedvirus 5 months ago
the hot space album was mediocre I still bought it..... besides i like that song
Wikipediot 6 months ago
I love a ridiculous amount of Queen songs and lime almost all of them, but this song in particular is by far one of if not my most disliked one. It's overly mediocre and it's just strange because I would expect a song dedicated to Lennon by Queen to be like one of their best. I'm kinda of even confused what they even thought on this song afterward... Brian May would be honest about it and I agree with him on everything, more than anyone I've known in my life; he needs to be asked about it. XD
Typhoon792 6 months ago 2
Great song, great men.
FRE1991DDIE 6 months ago