Quote related to 'You Take My Breath Away' from 'A Day At The Races'

One song I remember him writing specifically is on the Day at the Races album. Before recording it, he played it to me and I remember feeling shattered for days that anyone was prepared to write a song like that for me for that it is what he told me the lyrics were about. It was a worthwhile vindication for at the time, our friendship was under severe pressure from many quarters. It was ironic that later on in his career, I knew exactly about whom he had written subsequent songs. He was awfully clever like that.

David Minns [Mercury's then-boyfriend]; This Was the Real Life, 1992