I Was Born to Love You (song)

Single infobox
Name = I Was Born to Love You


Artist = Freddie Mercury / Queen
from Album = Mr. Bad Guy / Made in Heaven
Released = 1985 (Mercury version) February 28, 1996cite web|url=http://music.goo.ne.jp/cd/CDDORID270723-1/index.html|title= クイーン アイ・ワズ・ボーン・トゥ・ラヴ・ユー - goo 音楽 (Release information - Queen - I Was Born to Love You)|language=Japanese|accessdate=2008-06-28|works=music.goo.ne.jp] (Queen version) (Japan only)
Format = 7" single / CD single
Recorded = May 25 1984 / 1995
Genre = Pop Disco
Length = 4:49
Label = EMI
Writer = Freddie Mercury
Producer = Freddie Mercury and Mack / Queen
Reviews =
Chronology = Freddie Mercury
Last single = "Love Kills" (1984)
This single = "I Was Born to Love You" (1985)
Next single = "Made in Heaven" (1985)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Queen
Type = single
Last single = "You Don't Fool Me" (1996)
This single = "I Was Born to Love You" (1996)
Next single = "Let Me Live" (1996)

"I Was Born to Love You" is a 1985's song by Freddie Mercury, and was released as a single and on the "Mr. Bad Guy" album. After Mercury's death, Queen re-recorded this song for their album "Made in Heaven" in 1995.

The song received its live debut on the 2005 Queen + Paul Rodgers tour of Japan. Roger Taylor and Brian May performed the song acoustically.

Appearances in other media

The song has been featured in the multiple television advertisements and a program mainly in Japan. Original version recorded by Mercury was featured in the TV commercial of Japanese cosmetics company Noevia in the mid 1980s. Re-recorded version by remainders of the Queen was released as a single exclusively in Japan in February 1996, because the song was used in a TV ad for Kirin Ichiban Shiboricite web|url=http://music.goo.ne.jp/cd/CDDORID270723-1/index.html|title= クイーン アイ・ワズ・ボーン・トゥ・ラヴ・ユー - goo 音楽 (Release information - Queen - I Was Born to Love You)|language=Japanese|accessdate=2008-06-28|works=music.goo.ne.jp] , one of the best-selling liquors of the country produced by the Kirin Brewery Company. The single became their first song that entered the Japanese chart since "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)" , released in 1977.

In 2004, their version was used as the theme for "Pride" which was aired on Fuji Television, the successful Japanese drama starring Takuya Kimura and Yūko Takeuchi that featured the songs by the band. "Jewels", their tie-in compilation album featured "I Was Born to Love You" and released only in Japan, debuted at the number-one on the United World Chart, and the song itself also re-entered the Japanese chart.

A cover version of this song – based around the Queen re-recording – is featured in the fourth level of the Nintendo DS video game "Elite Beat Agents".

This song was featured in episode 29 of "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon", during a competitive game of gym-class volleyball.

Chart position

Freddie Mercury version

Queen version

References