Talk:You're My Best Friend (Queen song)

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Deletion

Why on earth should this article be deleted?!? --feline1 15:46, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously a mistake or prank. Somebody remove the notice. --70.188.134.238 22:09, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

time dilation

Brian May says that in '39 a man comes back 100 years later to find his daughter still alive. How is this possible, if most people don't live for a century. Even in the future, this seems a bit unlikely. Perhaps he finds his grandaughter and sees that she has his daughter's eyes? Or did the writer of the song just make a mistake?

A couple of explanations - the entire story takes place in the future, so maybe by that time people will have mastered the art of longevity.

Second, the song says "Your mother's eyes, from your eyes, cry to me". Your explanation above could fit, or it could be the man's wife/girlfriend gave up and found someone else years later (thus, a daughter that would be less than 100 years old). 70.176.186.10 30 June 2005 20:01 (UTC)

And you're assuming it's a literal "your mother." It could just as easily be a figurative sense, as in "your foremothers"- that is, she's a female descendent of his wife. Taken that way, it could be a grandaughter, a great grandaughter, a great-great grandaughter, whatever. It could, in fact, be hundreds of generations later- all we know is that it's been in one or more increments of a hundred years since they left- in a '39, in other words.--Deridolus 23:55, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

May is referring to the "time dilation effect" which Einstein's theory of special relativity predicts will happen if you travel close to the speed of light. Time passess more slowly for the man in the spaceship than for his folks back on earth. May studied astronomy at post-graduate level, so he would have been familiar with the concept.--feline1 15:46, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What the shit are you faggots talking about? Sean Gray 05:38, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roger's High Notes

On "A Night At the Opera", Roger is singing that high B flat falsetto in '39. This doesn't seem unreasonable, as he sings the very same note elsewhere on the album (Bohemian Rhapsody)... it would seem to be his "top note" - he never goes above it to my knowledge (eg My Fairy King, In the Lap of the Gods, Seven Seas of Rhye.... these have top A, one semitone lower) This being the case, one wonders why he would "refuse" to sing the note in '39, but not Bohemian Rhapsody! Nonetheless, on "Live Killers", that version of '39 is indeed pitched one semitone down from the album version.... and there are numerous bootlegs where Taylor fails woefully to reach even that A note during the late 70s...