- You're My Best Friend
Infobox Single
B-side ='39
Name = You're My Best Friend
Artist = Queen
from Album = A Night at the Opera
Released =May 18 ,1976
Format = 7"
Recorded =1975
Genre =Pop rock
Length = 2:52
Label =EMI (UK), Elektra (US)
Writer =John Deacon
Producer =Roy Thomas Baker and Queen
Reviews =
Last single = "Bohemian Rhapsody " (1975)
This single = "You're My Best Friend" (1976)
Next single = "Somebody to Love" (1976)"You're My Best Friend" is a song penned by
John Deacon and performed by British rock band Queen. It was originally included on the "A Night at the Opera" album in 1975, and later released as a single. This song also appeared on the "Greatest Hits" (1981) album.Deacon wrote the song for his wife, Veronica, to whom he remains married to this day. In this song, he plays a
Wurlitzer electric piano in addition to bass guitar. The characteristic 'bark' of the Wurlitzer's bass notes plays a prominent role in the song. During live performances, the band used a grand piano rather than an electric, and it would be played byFreddie Mercury , while Deacon played the bass guitar.For the music video, it shows Queen in a huge ballroom surrounded by over one thousand candles. The video was filmed in the summer of 1976. Also, Deacon is seen playing a grand piano, even though he plays a regular electric on the recording. This shows the only video of him without his bass. By watching the video closely, when it shows Freddie singing the first verse, behind him is Roger Taylor on the drums, you can hear a cymbal hit on the recording, and it looks like he's about to hit one of his cymbals, but he comes a little too late, and almost messes up, but came back beat along with the recording.
Queen on the song
The band answered Tom Browne on 24th December 1977 in a live BBC Radio One interview, regarding Deacon's control of the piano for the recording:
:
John Deacon : "Well, Freddie didn’t like the electric piano, so I took it home and I started to learn on the electric piano and basically that’s the song that came out you know when I was learning to play piano. It was written on that instrument and it sounds best on that. You know, often on the instrument that you wrote the song on":
Freddie Mercury : "I refused to play the damn thing [the Wurlitzer] . It’s tiny and horrible and I don’t like them. Why play those things when you’ve got a lovely superb grand piano? No, I think, basically what he [John] is trying to say is it was the desired effect".Personnel
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John Deacon - Wurlitzer electric piano, bass guitar, backing vocals.:Brian May - Guitar, backing vocals.:Freddie Mercury - Lead and backing vocals.:Roger Taylor - Drums, Backing vocals.In popular culture
* The song can be heard in Kenneth Brannagh's 1992 film "
Peter's Friends ".
* The song was featured in a 2000 episode of "That '70s Show " entitled "Hyde's Father."
* The song was featured at the end of the "Simpsons" episode "Moe Baby Blues " in 2003.
* The song was featured in the ending credits of the 2004 film "Shaun of the Dead ".
* The song was also featured in the 2005Nintendo Gamecube gameKaraoke Revolution Party .
* The song was played during the final moments of the "Will & Grace " finale in May 2006.
* It was also played in the 2006 film "The Break-Up ".
* The song was featured in a "My Name Is Earl " episode "Something to Live For " in 2006.
* The song was featured at the end of the 2007 movie "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry ".
* The song was featured in a 2007 "AT&T " commercial.
* Cheese (voiced byCandi Milo ) sang this song in the 2007Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade along with other characters from "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends ".
* The song is currently featured for "Carnival Cruise Lines " new brand campaign, "Let the Fun Begin".
* The song is currently featured in a television trailer for the 2008 film, "Pineapple Express".
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