Quotes related to 'All Dead All Dead' from 'News Of The World' album

[layered guitars] Yes. That's one of my favorites. That was one of the ones which I thought came off best, and I was really pleased with the sound. It allways gives me a surprise when I listen to it because it was ment to really bring tears to your eyes. It almos does it to me.

Brian May; Guitar Player magazine, January, 1983 #

A quiet track, very typical of Brian May's, very delicate and melodic. I personally think there's a slight McCartney influence there. Written and sung by Brian May. It's about priceless memories.

Roger Taylor; EMI Italy, October 1977 #

[The guitar interlude] is one of my favourites. That was one of the ones which I thought came off best, and I was really pleased with the sound. It always gives me a surprise when I listen to it because it was meant to really bring tears to your eyes. It almost does it to me.

Brian May; Guitar Player, 24th of September 1982 #

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 #

For the record, as far as I remember, I played piano on: Doin' All Right, Father to Son, Now I'm Here, Dear Friends, Teo Toriatte, All Dead All Dead. Notably NOT on Sail Away Sweet Sister - 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, Flash and The Hero (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… 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.

Brian May; Official Website, 23rd of April 2003 #

There's multi-tracking through the AC30 and multi-tracking through the Deacy as well. It's probably about sixteen tracks. It's all guitar. I got those by adjusting the tape speed. If I wanted to get a certain tone or to get above the guitar's range we'd slow the tape down while recording. I had to play it in a particular way so that it would work when we sped it back up. I don't remember using an EBow on that song. I've definitely used EBows to play around onstage and had a great time. But in the studio I just put myself in the exact position to get each note to feed back and sustain.

Brian May; Guitar Player, January 2008 #

These words [“memories, my memories, how long can you stay to hunt my days…”] are the ones I was GOING to sing over the piano introduction - but decided not to! You can try it if you like!

Brian May; Official Website, 1st of February 2008 #