A number that's done a lot for us.
That's done us proud, especially in England. It's been a very, very strong live track. And I think it sounds good. It's opened up a lot of new areas.
That was something which came together in bits and pieces and we used to play it on stage. Gradually, it got expanded and more things crept in and things got thrown out, and it was one of those songs which just gradually took shape. That is the form which the song had arrived at when we made the first album. If we hadn't made that album at that time songs like Liar would've just gone on changing and evolving and probably past their peak.
Freddie has become more interested in the piano, and writing more and more piano-based songs. Some old songs like Liar were written on guitar and are heavier.
Liar is probably the first song we ever played together.
Freddie was the driving force for getting us back together [after Smile]. He told us we could do it, and said he didn't want to play useless gigs where no-one listened, and that we would have to rehearse and get a stage act together. He was very keen for it to be an actual act, and we started again, taking a couple of songs from Smile and a couple of songs from groups he'd been in, like a band called Wreckage from which we stole bits than went into Liar and a couple of other songs, and we set about it in a serious manner.
Brian did apologise magnanimously to me for nicking a riff of mine which ended up in the Queen song Liar.