Every band wants a song like this. A cut that isn't played on the radio, but every fan knows the words and can sing it from the very first chorus. It's a sad love song, but it captures the feeling of love so well. We don't cry because it's over, we sing because it happened.

There will never be another Freddie. Truly one of a kind

Freddie's emotional singing is unbeatable.

So simple 2 men 1 guitar 1 voice pure magic

I got chills watching this performance. Anyone who got a chance to see Queen live with Freddie is forever lucky.

I think the key was that Freddie & Brian trusted their audience. They knew that they could let the pauses & silence, the simplicity & grace simply be what it is because the audience would go there with them. The greatest Queen love story is between the band & the fans. This song shows that love in all its glory.

I saw him in concert in Houston Texas. He really draws in the crowd. I felt every emotion he had while singing. I even cried. R.I.P. Freddy Mercury 💐

He never performed a song the same way, and every version was awesome.

There is not one moment this man sings that I don't get goosebumps. RIP to the greatest singer of all time.

Freddy was literally music royalty. Unrepeatable, unique, extraordinary.

It was really Freddies love for Mary that kept this song simple and really just protruding his voice, his love for her was truly next level and I think that shows in this voice

Queen in Rock in Rio. Brazilian is the best crowd in the world ever.🇧🇷

Freddie was the greatest singer ,Brian is still a guitar legend ,John is a wonderful bassist ,and Roger a fantastic drummer .

The day just got much better :)

I was fortunate enough to see queen with Freddy live six times back in the 70s and early 80s he was certainly someone special they will never be another like him

Best male live performer ever!

I cant listen to this song without crying. So beautiful

Another beautiful thing about this song is that Brian s playing a 12 string which add to the sumptuousness of this song.

I feel so blessed to have seen Queen live at Knebworth back in 1986. Freddie was a supreme showman. Truly one of the all time greats.

Freddie wasn't a codified operatic singer, but he sang operatically. Naturally, organically, beautifully. With his whole soul.

I have no idea how many times I have watched this exact video and will never get over the absolute command that Freddie has over that audience

Rawr. Rawr. Starts and ends my experience with a smile, even if the video is sad. This one with the crowd is SO spine chilling!

The greatest showman could have been written about Freddie and i am sure in the future it will be. Every time i see this it brings me to tears,i guess i am just getting old.

Me: I won't cry. Freddie: Love of my liii... Me: *hysterically sobbing*

Freddie really was the best all round artist. Amazing talent. And the band too, absolutely in sync with each other all those years.

Ahhh, Freddie and Queen with Love of my Life! Beth, you make me happy and sad at the same time. Wauw, what a performance.

Freddie was, is and will always be the best. As always, great reaction Beth. I also want to add that I love your smile. ☺️

Freddie has emotion & texture like no one!! I have cried to many a Queen song cuz of Freddie’s passionate vocals. Brian on 12-string is pure magic! 💕💕💕

Bri is just really a corner of my heart and I am so happy that he and Roger just make IT (and I mean the LEGACY OF QUEEN= FREDDIE+ROGER+BRYAN+DEAKY) keep going because it is really a THING, that we can't miss.

Love seeing just the two of them on stage. They way they stripped it down from the orchestral sounding studio track is pretty impressive in it own right. They always did an acoustic set in the show.

Just about 2 years ago, I did a big trip through the UK. Spent about 3 months there, and it kicked off with watching Bohemian Rhapsody with a close friend. I fell in love with this song especially, and it became the soundtrack to a lot of my trip. To this day if I listen to this song and close my eyes I can still almost smell the British air, always brings back bittersweet memories :')

Honestly, if I could time travel seeing them live would be one of the top things on my list

O.m.g.every time I hear it so emotional I have tears always 😢 Freddie's voice is unic and strong and indescribably beautiful out of this world the best ever walked on this planet and never will be another one even close thanks great reaction

If Freddy had opted for a career in opera, he would have been one of the greatest (and skinniest) tenors of all time! IMHO, his range and emoting, and his vibratos, portamentos and glissandi were second to none. What a sad and tragic loss his death was to music. *_R_* 😎

Love him so much

What a nice song to react to, thanks a lot for this one. I was food shopping a few days ago and they played "Queen - I want to break free" on the store speakers. People were singing along all over the place. It's something I only saw with Freddie's and Queen music.

It's well known he had a bad cold this night, which you can tell when his voice cracks some. Still outstanding, beautiful song.

He will never be replaced. It was a huge loss to the music industry and the world. I am very lucky to have seen them live.

If I could time travel I 100% would go and see Queen live. I got into them from Bohemian Rhapsody onwards but foolishly never went to see them, then sadly it was to late 😢😢😢

Freddie was one of a kind and a special person unmatched. As a bisexual myself he was always a hero to me. What a voice and style.

Beth, had you ever heard his live show of Love Of My Life in Rio (I believe it was on Rock in Rio, first or second edition, but for sure on Rio de Janeiro city), hid interaction with the people on show is AMAZING...

Great analysis. Have you seen Queen doing Impromptus? Such as at Wembley 1986, Freddie's falsetto was always good. Depending on your voice type, male voices can often become heavier as they age. Heavier voices are far more rare then lyrical voices, especially in tenors. In fact, there are almost no dramatic voices left in opera at the moment, these are amazing voices, but they can take time to develop. Look at Franco Corelli as an example, he had an amazing heavy voice, but he started off with a lyrical voice. Freddie's voice changed naturally into a heavier voice. Of course Queen was one of the bands that toured the most, and Freddie's own partying was not always good for his voice, along with some techniques. However, his voice grew consistently heavier over time, it was an organic change, and cannot be attributed to nodules. People are simply very used to light and lyrical voices, but heavier and dramatic voices are really amazing and powerful. Going back to opera singers such as Mario Del Monaco and Franco Corelli, they had amazing heavy, manly and powerful tenor voices, that you just cannot find today. Everyone is just being taught to sing with light voices. Singing lighter is not necessarily better.

This song brings my skin out in goose bumps every time.

listening to Freddy and Beth..... this day got a lot better!!!! Thanks Beth!!!!

Chills every time the crowd starts to sing during one of his concerts.

May be one of my top 10 live performances ever such a treat love you

When the Queen had a concert in Budapest, Freddie sung a Hungarian folk song, everyone love it. Folk song not easy to sing, especially if isn't in your mother tongue, but he can sing basically everything.

Qeen was the first band i was Fan of ,and it intrduced me into rock and later metal , back than i was 9 or 10 years old ,and even if i hear them not as often any more ,the songs are still great

Freddie and John Farnham are the only ones i have seen that bring the audience into the show. Superb talents

Thank you for this cool Freddy Mercury and Brian May simple yet GREAT performance - so godamn cool

Audience sang massively great feeling. that is the point.

I missed seeing him live. He is at the top of a list of great artists who were gone too soon.

Great reaction! Always love listening to the great Freddie Mercury and Brian May. Please react to another great song that showcases both of them - White Queen live at the Hammersmith Odeon, 1975.

Loved the extensive reaction. Would love to hear your breakdown of the hauntingly beautiful White Queen at Odeon Hammersmith…

He was the ultimate performer !

Freddy is one of those beeings that you fall trully in love with when they "speak" to you. Shurely admiration for a remarkable artist, but him and few others make you truly hart felted love them.

Two years ago... around this time, I saw Brian May playing this song and this guy showed up for a little moment to joined us at Central Park, Beth... It was So Beautiful and Magical that moment. You can tell how much Brian May misses him as we do! I got tears in my eyes when the song had finished. I tell you something, there's 2 of them touring around the world but believe me, somehow you can feel the presence of the other two! Brian and Roger make sure of that. This is my favorite band of All Times! Take Care!!!!

Great singer and a great song. A Night at the Opera was a mandatory purchase in my day. If you haven’t, watch Dido sing White Flag. The audience sings the final lines and she seems touched by it.

Your passion for Freddie enthrals me. You have to take into account that this day he had a throat infection and his doctor advised him to rest his voice, but he still came on and performed. He went on to perform a duet with montserrat caballe with 'Barcelona, he loved music and was always looking for more ways to entertain us, He was the best entertainer that ever lived.. I believe Brian still plays this song with a interactive video of Freddie at their live shows. I hope to go to one of their shows before my time comes, and I meet Freddie in spirit.

That's definitely the 1986 Wembley concert .. Thought it was Budapest at first but the T shirt is different. Both are phenominal shows.

Some interesting differences between this version and the album version. First of all, this is in a lower key. Second, like you mentioned he uses mixed voice instead of falsetto. Lastly, when he sings "because you don't know" he changes the melody slightly. In the original, it's broken into two notes "kno-ow." The second note is a step above the first. But I guess he decided he couldn't hit that cleanly, even in the lower key. So he sings it as one note here. He sings higher notes than that elsewhere, but those are in rock songs where he can belt a bit more.

this was the biggest queen show in history

Love you Freddie Mercury

I love Queen..i liste from when I was 8 years old..and now i'm 38

Hi Beth, I LOVE your Freddie reactions... I always learn something! I ran across an interview that Freddie had done in 1979, I believe. (So at least 7 years before this performance) He referred to the nodules in his throat as far back as that, saying that he had blown his voice out at some point during their concert tour and they had to cancel some shows until he got his voice back. (I think this was during the Live Killers tour, which was '78-79, but not certain.)

Might I reccomend another touching and powerful Brian May penned tune? I've been a fan of Queen since the early seventies. I've seen them twice at Madison Square Garden back in 1980 and 1982. The track is "Save Me" off of the Game album, in fact the last song on side 2. There is a great clip from Queen Rock Montreal 1981, the same tour I saw them on in 1980. The track speaks for itself.

The greatest singer ever !!

One of best LOVE SONGS ❤❤❤

Also I have to say, this channel is one of the very few reactions I don’t fast forward through some talking. Love the reaction/explanations. Keep up the break down of amazing music!

Just beautiful 💕 One of a Kind

Freddie and Brian were a treasure. Roger and John as well. What a loss Freddie was.

If this doesn't warm your heart, I don't know what will

One of the greatest bands in the world can still hold an audience with a tiny acoustic ballad.

Even today I have Freddy as one of my top 5 best voices of all time.

Truthfully you will never see a true artist again in any of our lifetimes

I can't watch this without getting full body chills. lovely to enjoy it with you.

Loved your video Beth. Good point on the nature of the song being a simple voice and guitar duet, there is one other, almost as beautiful- it's called 'Is this the world we created...?' and was the last song Queen played at Live Aid some time after their main set- give it a listen, I'm sure you'll love that too.

Ily girl! Your points are soo correct!

The best participation of the public in this song is in rock in rio.

Amazing....all is amazing!!!! 😍😍😍

Truly one of the best songs,in the world,EVER!

Yes Freddie had a very fast vibrato and was unstable. He also sang alot from his chest rather than his diaphragm. Freddie was also diagnosed with having nodules way back in 1975 and refused to have them removed for fear of ruining his voice completely

Loved this! For AMAZING dynamics watch Freddie sing "Save Me" live in Montreal 1981 or "Play the Game" same concert.

I can only envy those who were at that concert

One hundred thousand, (or whatever), people in the palm of his hand. Best ever on the planet.

I dig your videos, your expertise & voice 😁

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Freddie ❤

Would love to see some more Queen from you. Somebody to Love at Montreal 1981 is a good one, well any really.

please, react to queen performing love of my life at rock in rio in 1985. That's incredibly beautiful

Maravilloso 👏👏🍀🍀💙💜

I truly believe that Queen WANTED to play music that people WANTED to hear. They cared about their audience, and many of their songs were MEANT, DESTINED to be better live than recorded, even though their recordings were impeccable. It is what separates them from every other band.

"What instrument do you play?" "The audience".

great vid well explained

Also check out the other live acoustic songs by Queen such as Dreamer's Ball, Is This The World We Created and '39

God I love this song...

Thanks for a great reaction. Freddie was so gifted and talented. Check out a tribute of this song by Marc Martel from Canada. It's beautiful as well. Kind of looks like Freddie too! Take care😬

Queen - Top 10 rock band of ALL time.

When some people say about other singers or band We love him eeeeee boys and girls,you really dont know what love mean for you it is just.WORD You say I love him,her I love them but it is just words nothing more words the same as bread,or milk but when We say we love our Freddie it is feel,it is intimacy,it is purrest sense of love ♥you feel this warm heat extending around the heart you feel butterfly into your stomach,you feel that drug called love what you never want to get out of your vein so that is LOVE♥ Not just word but feeling deep into you and why we have such love to Our Freddie,it is nort just about his exterior,or music is something deep ,with we are engaged learn and you will be understand it is bond what can not never be torn I believe other you know what I am talking about honey

React to Brazilian singer MARIA BETHANIA(more than 50 years career) singing EXPLODE CORAÇÃO. Its amazing,Magic. Please!!!