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Jokapaikanapina: Brianhan tais soittaa Save Me -kappaleen alun pianolla livenäki.
 
Pakollinen Queen trivia kysymys: missä kappaleessa vaihtuu pianisti kesken biisin :)
 
Freddie taisi painia pianistina kuitenkin vähän eri liigassa kun Queenin muut jäsenet. 70-luvulla Freddien pianonsoitto aika hallitseva elementti Queen kappaleissa, 80-luvulla kiipparit korvasivat aidon asian lähestulkoon kokonaan.
 
Muistaakseni Brian kommentoi joskus blogissaan syitä siihen miksi Freddie jätti pianon vähemmälle myöhempinä vuosinaan... tuota juttua ei enää löytynyt mutta muuta aiheeseen liitttyvää mielenkiintoista tietoa kylläkin. Eli alla Brianin vastaus millä kappaleilla hänen pianonsoittoaan kuullaan:
 
for the record, as far as I remember. I played piano on the following:
 
Doin Alright (on Queen I),
 
- Father to Son (II),
- Now Im Here, Dear Friends (SHA),
- Teo Toriatte (ADATR),
- All Dead All Dead (NOTW)
 
Notably NOT on
- Sail Away Sweet Sister (The Game) I got Freddie to learn it and play it with Roger and John for the backing track I wanted his marvellous rhythm and percussive feel on piano.
 
But yes on
- Save Me
- Las Palabras de Amor (Hot Space)
- Flash and The Hero (Flash Gordon) (plus organ on the WEDDING)
 
But from here on in we began using synthesisers and there were many excursions from us all into keyboard territory.
 
My main contributions on principal parts were (in no particular order) in:
 
- Scandal,
- Was It All Worth it,
- Hang On In There,
- Too Much Love will Kill You (which was done with Frank Musker up in his house in the Canyon in L.A. when we first sketched the song),
- No-one But You (again done on my own, originally for use on my solo album),
- One Vision (my first ramblings on a Kurzweil gave rise to the opening section) ,
- I Cant Live With You,
- The Show Must Go On (that sequence just got thrust into my head playing around with Roger I will never know where it came from, but it completely took me over for a long time while the song was in development).
 
And of course
- Who Wants to Live Forever.
 
The only pure piece of piano from this era from me is Forever - which was a doodle done live in the studio which I rescued for a bonus track later on.
 
Of course there are many other smaller contributions, but in many cases later on we would work together on the programming of a keyboard part (eg Days Pf Our Lives). This is a benefit of the new technology which allows us to keep the original feel of a demo keyboard part but update the actual notes as the song is developed Ive used it many times in my solo work giving an impression that I can play better than I actually can!!!