“Freddie originally wanted to use the boys from Queen on the recording,” recalls Clark, “but I wanted to do something different and I said, ‘Freddie, I would love to bring my guys in and if it doesn’t work, don’t worry I’ll pay for it and we’ll do it again.’ Mike had never met Freddie but it all clicked and years later he wrote the album Barcelona with him, which was the greatest compliment I could get about how good Mike and the other musicians were.” Freddie, at that stage, liked innovative things, so that’s what we aimed to do. It was a joint idea to make it different that way.
The final version was a 96-track production. Then we got into the track and we did 48 tracks of backing vocals, which had never been done in Abbey Road before. “When Freddie came into the studio and it was just Mike Moran on the piano and him,” says Clark, “it really was fantastic. When he returned three months later to sing the title song from Time he was on fine form. Three months earlier, Mercury had laid down the first track for the Time project – “In My Defence” – after flying in from his Munich home, bringing his own chef for a 12-hour session that was helped along by champagne and vodka. “Freddie liked innovative things, so that’s what we aimed to do”
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