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You're My Best Friend

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ou're My Best Friend
Single by Queenfrom the album A Night at the Opera
B-side
'39
Released
May 18, 1976
Format
7"
Recorded
1975
Genre
Pop rock
Length
2:52
Label
EMI (UK), Elektra (US)
Writer(s)
John Deacon
Producer
Roy Thomas Baker and Queen
Queen singles chronology
"Bohemian Rhapsody"(1975)
"You're My Best Friend"(1976)
"Somebody to Love"(1976)
"You're My Best Friend" is a song penned by John Deacon and performed by British rock band Queen. It was originally included on the A Night at the Opera album in 1975, and later released as a single. This song also appeared on the Greatest Hits (1981) album.
Deacon wrote the song for his wife, Veronica, to whom he remains married to this day. In this song, he plays a Wurlitzer electric piano in addition to bass guitar. The characteristic 'bark' of the Wurlitzer's bass notes plays a prominent role in the song. During live performances, the band used a grand piano rather than an electric, and it would be played by Freddie Mercury, while Deacon played the bass guitar.
For the music video, it shows Queen in a huge ballroom surrounded by over one thousand candles. The video was filmed in the summer of 1976. (May later mentioned that the video was shot in the middle of a very unpleasant heatwave and the ballroom in which they were filming did not have air conditioning.) Also, Deacon is seen playing a grand piano, even though he plays a regular electric on the recording.
Queen on the song
The band answered Tom Browne on 24 December 1977 in a live BBC Radio One interview, regarding Deacon's control of the piano for the recording:
Well, Freddie didn like the electric piano, so I took it home and I started to learn on the electric piano and basically that the song that came out you know when I was learning to play piano. It was written on that instrument and it sounds best on that. You know, often on the instrument that you wrote the song on.
ohn Deacon
I refused to play the damn thing (the Wurlitzer). It tiny and horrible and I don like them. Why play those things when youe got a lovely superb grand piano? No, I think, basically what he [John] is trying to say is it was the desired effect.
reddie Mercury
Personnel
John Deacon - Wurlitzer electric piano, bass guitar.
Brian May - Guitar, backing vocals.
Freddie Mercury - Lead and backing vocals.
Roger Taylor - Drums, Backing vocals.
In popular culture
The song can be heard in Kenneth Brannagh's 1992 film Peter's Friends.
The song was featured in a 2000 episode of That '70s Show entitled "Hyde's Father."
The song was featured at the end of the Simpsons episode "Moe Baby Blues" in 2003.
The song was featured in the ending credits of the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead.
The song was also featured in the 2005 Nintendo Gamecube game Karaoke Revolution Party.
The song was played during the final moments of the Will & Grace finale in May 2006.
The song was played during the opening credits in the 2006 film The Break-Up.
The song was featured in a My Name Is Earl episode "Something to Live For" in 2006.
The song was featured at the end of the 2007 movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
The song was featured in a 2007 "AT&T" commercial.
Cheese (voiced by Candi Milo) sang this song in the 2007 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade along with other characters from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
The song is currently featured for "Carnival Cruise Lines" new brand campaign, "Let the Fun Begin".
The song is currently featured in a television trailer for the 2008 film, Pineapple Express.

v?d?eQueen singles discography
1970s
1973: "Keep Yourself Alive"? 1974: "Liar"? "Seven Seas of Rhye"? "Killer Queen"? 1975: "Now I'm Here"? "Bohemian Rhapsody"? 1976: "You're My Best Friend"? "Somebody to Love"? 1977: "Tie Your Mother Down"? "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)"? "Long Away"? "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy"? "We Are the Champions"/"We Will Rock You"? 1978: "Spread Your Wings"? "It's Late"? "Bicycle Race"/"Fat Bottomed Girls"? 1979: "Don't Stop Me Now"? "Jealousy"? "Mustapha"? "Love of My Life"? "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
1980s
1980: "Save Me"? "Play the Game"? "Another One Bites the Dust"? "Need Your Loving Tonight"? "Flash"? 1981: "Under Pressure" (w/ David Bowie)? 1982: "Body Language"? "Las Palabras de Amor"? "Calling All Girls"? "Staying Power"? "Back Chat"? 1984: "Radio Ga Ga"? "I Want to Break Free"? "It's a Hard Life"? "Hammer to Fall"? "Thank God It's Christmas"? 1985: "One Vision"? 1986: "A Kind of Magic"? "Princes of the Universe"? "Friends Will Be Friends"? "Who Wants to Live Forever"? "Pain Is So Close to Pleasure"? "One Year of Love"? 1989: "I Want It All"? "Breakthru"? "The Invisible Man"? "Scandal"? "The Miracle"
1990s
1991: "Innuendo"? "I'm Going Slightly Mad"? "Headlong"? "The Show Must Go On"? "These Are the Days of Our Lives"? 1995: "Heaven for Everyone"? "A Winter's Tale"? "Too Much Love Will Kill You"? 1996: "You Don't Fool Me"? "I Was Born to Love You"? "Let Me Live" ? 1997: "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" ? 1999: "Under Pressure (Rah Mix)" (w/David Bowie)
2000s
2007: "Say It's Not True" (w/ Paul Rodgers)? 2008: "C-lebrity" (w/ Paul Rodgers)
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