Today's song comes from their 1982 album "Hot Space." Penned by Freddie Mercury, the song is called "Life is Real" and is dedicated to John Lennon, who was murdered on December 8th 1980.
This is going to be totally lazy of me, but here's what Wikipedia has to say about the song:
Mercury wrote "Life Is Real" as a tribute to John Lennon, whose murder in 1980 had also previously prompted the band to perform his song "Imagine" on tour. Like Lennon's songs, "Life Is Real" features a sparse piano-based arrangement and a melancholy tone. It is also one of the few Mercury songs whose lyrics were written before the music ("Killer Queen" being another). The title may be a reference to the lyric 'love is real', from Lennon's 1970 song "Love", or the line 'nothing is real', from The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever". It begins with three bell-like piano notes, meant to recall the opening bells in Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over", and "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)". Also, the first two words, 'Guilt stains...' are virtually identical interval-wise (though in a different key) to Lennon's first two notes in his song, "Mother".
Who knows if all this jazz ^ was coincidental or intentional in Mercury's songwriting.
Anyways, here's the song:
Did you like that? I hope so.
Fun fact, I caught a rare Pokemon and named him Lennon. It's a ditto and apparently is super rare.
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