Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Some slippery harmony goodness. Forgive me for being dusty - been sanding down a wall.

MIDI piano borrowed from: youtube.com/watch?v=OzNDolj3HHk

#queen
#brianMay
#guitar

Stolen from Wikipedia:
"You Take My Breath Away" was written by Mercury and based on the harmonic minor scale. He performed it by himself at Hyde Park before recording it, and all of the vocals in the version of the song on the album were performed by him, as was the piano part.

Unusual for Queen, Mercury's lead vocals were triple-tracked to achieve "a solo vocal that could hold its own against the chorus."

There is a vocal interlude between this song and the next in which a wash of vocals consisting of a loop of a multi-tracked Mercury repeating the words "take my breath" steadily increases in volume until it resolves into the echoed phrase "take my breath away" and fades out.

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