Quote related to 'All Dead All Dead' from 'News Of The World'

I don't think I've ever talked about that track - nobody's ever wanted to know about that track! It was a song I'd had around for a while. It was kind of about the passing of friends and I think it crystallised because - this is very embarrassing, I don't know if I should talk about this: well, I think the thing that started it off was losing my cat! My cat died when I was a kid and I kind of never got over it and I think it was one of those things which surfaces now and again in different ways. I think I wrote the song for the album thinking that I was writing it about something completely different, but I think part of it was sort of getting that out of my system, which is a very strange thing to say, and I think that's what it's about. We never talked about it - in those days we never talked about it in the band, we didn't talk about what things were about, never, which is strange, so it was kind of personal, I suppose, and that's mainly what it is about.

Brian May; In the Studio with Redbeard, 27th of October 1997