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I Was Born to Love You (song)

"I Was Born to Love You"
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Single by Freddie Mercury
from the album Mr. Bad Guy
B-side "Stop All the Fighting"
Released 8 April 1985
Format 7" single
Recorded 1984
Musicland Studios, Munich
Genre Pop rock, disco
Length 3:37 (7" and album version)
7:03 (12" extended version)
Label CBS
Songwriter(s) Freddie Mercury
Producer(s) Freddie Mercury and Reinhold Mack
Freddie Mercury singles chronology
"Love Kills"
(1984)
"I Was Born to Love You"
(1985)
"Made in Heaven"
(1985)
"Love Kills"
(1984)
"I Was Born to Love You"
(1985)
"Made in Heaven"
(1985)
"I Was Born to Love You"
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Single by Queen
from the album Made in Heaven
Released 28 February 1996
(Japan only)
Format CD single
Recorded 1984, 1995
Genre Rock, hard rock
Length 4:49
Label EMI
Hollywood (North America)
Songwriter(s) Freddie Mercury
Producer(s) Queen
Queen singles chronology
"A Winter's Tale"
(1995)
"I Was Born to Love You"
(1996)
"Too Much Love Will Kill You"
(1996)
"A Winter's Tale"
(1995)
"I Was Born to Love You"
(1996)
"Too Much Love Will Kill You"
(1996)

"I Was Born to Love You" is a 1985 song by Freddie Mercury, and was released as a single and on the Mr. Bad Guy album. After Mercury's death, Queen re-worked this song for their album Made in Heaven in 1995, by having the other members play their instrumental parts over the original track transforming the song from a disco number to a hard rocker.

The song received its live debut on the 2005 Queen + Paul Rodgers tour of Japan. Brian May and Roger Taylor performed the song acoustically. The song was also performed during Queen + Adam Lambert's concerts in South Korea and Japan, which was the first time that a full live band was used for the performance.

The Queen version from the Made In Heaven album also includes samples of Mercury's ad-lib vocals taken from "A Kind of Magic" from the 1986 album of the same name and from "Living On My Own" from his Mr. Bad Guy album.

The video for the original Freddie Mercury version of the song was directed by David Mallet and filmed at the now demolished Limehouse Studios, London. The video was choreographed by Arlene Phillips and features Freddie singing in front of a wall of mirrors, then running through a house with an unknown woman (Debbie Ash), before dancing on a podium.

The video for the Made in Heaven version was directed by Richard Heslop for the British Film Institute, and was included on Made In Heaven: The Films. It features the inhabitants of a block of council flats, showing people of every sexual persuasion. Couples kiss, kids play, and teenagers steal and destroy a car in a monochrome film. The audio also uses the vinyl edit.

The video for the Queen version of the song included on Queen Jewels, the 2004 Greatest Karaoke Hits DVD and the Japanese releases of the Days Of Our Lives documentary in Japan features footage from Freddie's original solo video intercut with footage of Queen performing live at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 12 July 1986, One Vision, A Kind Of Magic and Now I'm Here, and Freddie's solo video Living On My Own.


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