[Mercury] came up with the bass-line, which [he] made me play. It is very different from other tracks on the album.
I think that song stems from John and myself. I seem to remember that I wanted something a little more relaxed, and the way the other songs were going, and I thought we're getting so involved and they're very heavy, and there was a lot of guitar input in some songs, and I felt that we didn't have something that was sort of a little bit more pristine, a little bit more, sort of clear-headed, and not too involved, and so we decided, I thought, “let's just go for something quite straightforward, and something that we hadn't got in the batch.” So we decided that we should have something with just a very easy backbeat, and something very listenable, and I don't think it was going to go on the album at first, we just decided that that would be a nice breather at the end of the second side, so we kept that in, but apart from that there's no sort of wonderful idea behind it.
This is one from Freddie and John.
The band wrote My Baby Does Me using a drum machine and we decided to keep it in; we had two different patterns and I used an SRC (SMPTE Reading Clock) to put them on separate tracks with a slight delay between them. That produced a slight phasing effect, which we decided to keep - it's the most natural type of phasing you can have, and I like that sort of spontaneity.