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A Winter's Tale (Queen song)








A Winter's Tale (Queen song)


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"A Winter's Tale"
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Single by Queen
from the album Made in Heaven
B-side "Thank God It's Christmas"
"Rock in Rio Blues"
Released 11 December 1995
Format
CD single, 7" single
Recorded 1991-1995
Genre
Rock, blues rock
Length 3:49
Label
Parlophone (Europe)
Hollywood (North America)
Songwriter(s) Queen
(Freddie Mercury)
Producer(s) Queen, David Richards, Justin Shirley-Smith, Josh Macrae

Queen singles chronology





"Heaven for Everyone"
(1995)
"A Winter's Tale"
(1995)
"I Was Born to Love You"
(1996)






"Heaven for Everyone"
(1995)
"A Winter's Tale"
(1995)
"I Was Born to Love You"
(1996)


"A Winter's Tale" is a song by Queen, from the album Made in Heaven, released in 1995 after Freddie Mercury's death in 1991. It was written after the Innuendo sessions, inspired as Mercury was staring out the windows of his apartment, in Montreux. The song has a psychedelic, dreamy feel, and describes what Mercury saw outside the windows.


Mercury wrote and composed the song, and also performed the vocals and keyboards (although the track is credited to Queen). In the 1995 documentary Queen: Champions of the World, it was stated that this was, if not the first, then an extremely rare style of recording for Mercury, as it was all performed in one take live in the studio. It was stated in the film that Mercury had always insisted upon music being completed prior to the vocal arrangement beginning, but acknowledged that he had little time left and there was not enough time to work on it differently.


The song was released as the second single from the album. In the UK the single was also available in a special limited edition green paper CD case which resembled Christmas wrapping.




Contents






  • 1 Personnel


  • 2 Music video


  • 3 Chart performances


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Personnel[edit]




  • Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals, keyboards


  • Brian May - electric guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals


  • Roger Taylor - drums, backing vocals


  • John Deacon - bass guitar



Music video[edit]


The music video, produced after his death, was an epitaph, as Mercury's actual written song notes were displayed alongside imagery and clips of Mercury's past performances.



Chart performances[edit]































Chart
Peak
position

Australian Singles Chart[1]
71
Austrian Singles Chart
23
German Singles Chart
62
Netherlands Singles Chart
25
Swiss Singles Chart
28
UK Singles Chart
6


References[edit]





  1. ^ "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 04 Feb 1996". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 21 July 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em} N.B. The HP column displays the highest peak reached.




External links[edit]




  • Official video (based on short film "Outside-In") on YouTube

  • Lyrics at Queen official website











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