Brian May has released (October 22nd) a physical, digital and new timetravelling video for the single ‘Back to the Light. This single is from the remastered and reissued Back to the Light album.
Brian May has written great queen songs from from the very first self-titled album ‘Queen’. During the writing process much of Brian’s writing output was consumed and accepted by the band and soon became Queen songs rather than solo songs. Some of the songs Brian wrote did show up on his solo albums – one of those songs is ‘Back To The Light’. On October 22nd, Brian released on CD and 7” vinyl this great single. Also available on the digital single is a wonderful karaoke version of ‘Back To The Light’ – if you want to sing along yourself.
The release of this great single also comes with a brand new time-travelling video which Rolling Stone called ‘trippy‘. It shows Brian May playing guitar with a 90’s guitarist called Brian May. Brian said of the video, “I feel kind of affectionate looking back. Looking back at me 30 years ago, a young man with no idea of the incredible journey that was still to come.“
Originally released in 1992, Back to the Light got into the UK Top 20 and it is hoped that this new release will do even better in the charts. Back to the Light was always a track which I liked – some people don’t like it (I heard a recent Queen related podcast which basically tore it, and the related album, to shreds), but I feel the track is of the era and in my view is a great rock track. There are some great musicians on the track and indeed on the album. Brian said, ““I had the great fortune of having some wonderful people with me when I was going through this, notably Cozy Powell who was the most fantastic support to me emotionally as well as musically.’“
Brian started to write the tracks for the album around 1988 at a time when things were quote dark for him; there was a marriage breaking down, Freddie was obviosuly dying, and Brian’s father had died.