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During the night, Freddie, Montserrat and Mike worked on ideas together which would later form the basis of Barcelona and The Fallen Priest. She felt a wonderful sense of artistic freedom, which Freddie had brought into her life. Everything had to be absolutely perfect for the day when Montserrat would come into the studio and sing her parts.

This orchestra is out of tune and therefore not adequate. This made us very keen to get the best sounds we could. Freddie insisted on trying out every vocal line and phrase, not only his own parts, but those of Montserrat too, imitating her parts in a very high falsetto voice. He had to be in control of every note of the orchestral parts. Standing over Mike at his keyboard with a feverish enthusiasm, he would examine and direct every violin part, every cello note, when they should play, and how loudly, and when there should be flutes and how high they should play.

At this stage I remember working very hard to make the sampled and synthesized instruments sound as real as possible. This was frustrating sometimes, as I thought a real orchestra would sound better. The studio itself had to be polished, cleaned and made ready, and Freddie made Townhouse Studios redecorate the ladies toilets just in case she wanted to use them.

Montserrat sang the songs brilliantly and turned out to be the nicest and friendliest of people. It was obvious that she liked and admired Freddie very much. The whole vocal session was completed in a couple of hours. Barcelona the song was recorded in April and was first performed by Freddie and Montserrat at the Ku Club in Ibiza on May 30, It was the finale to the worldwide Ibiza 92 festival.

The hugely emotional reception it received from the Spanish audience, spurred Freddie and Montserrat to push on with the project, and Barcelona became a fitting title track to the album which was to follow, and a worldwide hit.

The Barcelona album was recorded over an 18 month period between January and July , at both Townhouse studios in London and Mountain studios in Switzerland, and was produced by Freddie, Mike Moran and David Richards. I just thought, and still think, that Montserrat is remarkable and has a marvelous voice.

It just snowballed. It was such a different thing to do. A number of ideas he began during the Barcelona sessions were never finished, and those which were, underwent significant changes along the road to perfection. Ultimately, in October , the Barcelona album emerged as an immensely impressive body of work.

On October 8, , Freddie and Montserrat appeared together again, this time at the huge La Nit event, on the steps of Montjuic Castle in Barcelona, to mark the arrival of the Olympic flag from Korea. The event was filmed for television worldwide, director Gavin Taylor working live with no less than 18 cameras. On October 10, , the Barcelona album was released to widely contrasting press reviews. For once, the music establishment was taken by surprise by the unlikely collaboration, and many struggled for things to say.

But by far the majority were complimentary. In Spain, the album was released three weeks earlier, on September 21, and promptly sold 10, copies in the first three hours of going on sale. It was the first collaboration between a rock star and opera diva, but a formula which was to be copied many times in subsequent years. For that album, Hollywood Records repackaged the disc, using alternative artwork from the European CD re-issue, and, most significantly, remastered each track, thus creating something of a rarity.

The famous title track single, meanwhile, was never released in America. The photograph of Freddie being embraced by Montserrat on the reverse side of the album sleeve , is an image which will endure forever. It was like an operatic This Is Your Life, and all unrehearsed.

Huge luminaries were due to attend — di Stefano, Carreras, Juan Pons. At the end of the show, she insisted he be on stage with her. It was a tremendous vindication for him. Like Montserrat, Freddie was deeply respectful of talented people, those whom he admired, in whatever field. He was always ready to accord credit where he felt credit was due, and when it was done in reverse, when he was the recipient, he was delighted.

He was not only a popular singer, he was a musician, that could sit at the piano and compose. He discovered a new way to bring different music styles together. Freddie was up in the sky. From what I know of Freddie, one of the biggest, greatest moments in his life, was when Montserrat had come over to London and put down her vocal track for Barcelona. In Barcelona was adopted as the main anthem for the Olympic Games.

The single was re-issued in August, and this time peaked at No. Freddie and Montserrat were to have sung it together at the opening ceremony of the games, but of course, ultimately Montserrat sang it instead with Jose Carreras. Barcelona is a truly unique collection. It is a greatly underrated piece of work, too often overlooked in preference to the more pop-orientated, in-vogue records Freddie made.

In terms of sheer musicality and vocal virtuosity, it is unsurpassed. It remains a firm favourite among fans and is generally regarded as THE Freddie Mercury showcase — a vocal, musical and lyrical tour de force. It topped the album charts in numerous territories, and has to date sold in excess of three million copies. The album features eleven tracks, comprised for the most part of specially commissioned remixes.

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