30 Days of Song - Day 24

[dimity_blue]

Day 24 - A song that you want to play at your funeral.

I presume they mean 'to be played at my funeral'. It'd be an interesting funeral if I rose from my coffin in order to play the music myself. :oD

Anyway, maybe this. The beginning is really quiet, btw.

Comments

[leesa_perrie]

Interesting choice, uplifting with a tinge of sadness, I can see why you chose it!

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Leesa. I really like the beginning bit especially - it's like the sun coming up over the horizon.

[sammason.livejournal.com]

That's gorgeous. I hadn't heard it before but like anything by Queen, I had to be in the right mood to listen to it. Freddie Mercury was so talented, such a nice bloke by all accounts, and died so far too young.

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

It's such a lovely piece of music, and the words match it beautifully. I hate to even think about funerals, but it would be a wonderful goodbye to everyone.

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

I agree. He sounded like a genuinely lovely person.

I'm glad you liked the track. It's from the last album Freddie worked on, Made in Heaven.

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

I found it hard to choose a piece, and it was rather depressing looking through the songs I like wondering if it'd do!

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

I went to the most awful funeral of a friend last year, and the only piece of music played (and played four times) was 'Song Sung Blue' by Neil Diamond. Talk about depressing and miserable - and if I never ever hear it again it'll still be too soon! But it did make me think how important it is to choose something yourself, and not leave it to a random funeral director to pick whatever comes to hand. I'd hate to be remembered for my terrible music choices *g*

[sammason.livejournal.com]

No doubt you've seen the interview with Brian May in which he says that Freddie knew he was dying, so he told his bandmates, 'You write the music and I'll sing it,' leaving it for them to release after his death.

I'll tell the story of how I came to feel so emotional about him. (Apart from Queen's wonderful music, which is part of the soundtrack to so many lives.) Soon after my MS diagnosis I dreamed that I was at a Queen concert. Freddie strutted onto the stage, looking cool in black leather shorts as only he could. He pointed at me and said, 'Sam Mason, this one's for you.' Then he performed Another One Bites the Dust. That dream was years ago but I'm tearful again now, remembering it.