Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy

Words and music by Freddie Mercury

At first the three basic tracks were recorded:

• DRUMS (Roger)
• BASS (John)
• PIANO (Freddie)
  Then Brian added a guitar choir,with eight tracks (eight guitars). Roger added a percussion-overdub track with triangle, high and low Woodblocks and a snare-roll played with brushes (on the "one,two,three,four...." part)

  Then Brian,Freddie and Roger did the backing-vocals on multiple tracks (three or so).

  These are the last two tracks:

  • On the main vocal-track Freddie sings the lead-vocals.
  • On another track Freddie and Mike Stone (the engineer) sing some additional vocals:
    MIKE:"Hey boy,where d'you get it from...." and "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 o'clock"
    FREDDIE:"There he goes again,there's my good old fashioned lover boy ooh ooh"

  John plays his famous Fender precision-bass on this song.