Quote related to 'My Fairy King' from 'Queen'

Quite a lot of the songs on that first album were songs that we had had for a long while, and songs that we just used to play together, songs like Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, Great King Rat, and other numbers. They're songs that we just used to play, and we just went in and recorded them. And there were one or two numbers on that first album which were more sort of that first sort of sign of getting interested in doing things in the studio. My Fairy King was a number Freddie wrote… which we only wrote, when we were in the studio and it was built up in the studio.  Whereas, you know, as I said, there's other numbers where essentially live songs, basically just the track and then just a few backing vocals and guitar solos over the top and that was it. We always find quite an interest on the recording side because of what we have on our records. There's a lot of stuff on our records, you know. Especially when you get the headphones on, you can actually, you know, I suppose our thing is fairly modern in a way, because we do use the studio a lot. I suppose it sounds more modern in a way because of all the various multi-tracking we do. That wasn't done five years ago because the facilities weren't around. When we recorded our first album, 16-track machines were the thing, and we just used the facilities that they could do, whereas a few years previous it was only 8-tracks and 4-tracks and people were very limited to what they could do. It was more like playing music live, they would go in and they would play the music as they performed it onstage, and that would be it. But now working in the studio is an art in itself, because you can come up with sounds that you could never reproduce onstage.

John Deacon; KLOS FM, 8th of July 1977