“He was very ill, in pain, he could barely walk. I asked him: Fred, I don’t know if you will be able to sing, there are too high notes here, you are very weak. He looked at me and replied, calmly, ‘I will, Dear.’ And so he downed a glass of vodka, he went into the studio, he sang at very high notes… and I was, literally, shocked.” – Brian May on recording “The Show Must Go On”.