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Basically the song is a précis of the story of the Highlander and the line is an actual line in the movie. That was where the song came from, and it's sort of about an immortal, I suppose… It was written for the movie and it became very popular on stage. I remember when we played it on the 1986 tour, which is our last ever tour, it used to go down incredibly well, this one, and it had a very good end to it. Originally, it was much more filmic, and in fact it was used at the end of the movie as the closing credits, as I remember, and it was much less sort of dance-orientated and it had much more broken-up tempos, it was sort of grander concept, generally more filmic, but we then re-worked. I know Freddie particularly believed in this song, and we re-worked into a single, really, for the album and, funnily enough, they played it on the jukebox in the second Highlander movie, which we didn't really have anything to do with but by that time it'd been a big worldwide hit so I suppose they wanted to get it in.

Roger Taylor; Greatest Video Hits II, November 2003