The others had already begun without me, so it started off in a fairly stressful way, anyway. Basically, I spent the next two years of my life either sitting in front of a computer trying to make the most of the scraps that we had of Freddie's vocal, or arranging and producing and performing to fill in all the gaps. It was an enormous project and it's so much easier if you've got all the guys in the band around you. We didn't have that situation, but the aim was to make an album that sounded like we did.