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-	STOP! What you have just picked up is not your normal kind of album. Not an album which has been "thoughtfully pieced together by a coordinated band as a balanced and polished listening experience". Not a Queen album. Not a solo Brian May album. It is a record of a unique event.
-	On the 21st and 22nd of April 1983, five musicians from different backgrounds, who had previously known each other only as friends, played together for the first time. Purely for fun. In listening to this record, I hope you will share in the excitement we felt.	+	Dear folks,
-	[[Star Fleet]] is the theme tune for a superb TV sci-fi series broadcast in England for kids of all ages; Japanese visuals and British soundtrack including music by Paul Bliss. The heroes pilot space vehicles which can assemble into a giant robot for land battles. The aliens fly fantastic insect-like craft which spawn smaller fighting machines, all intent on possession of the secret of F Zero One... Having been introduced to all this by my small boy, I became equally obsessed by it, and formed the idea of making a hard rock version of the title theme.	+	This is an album of songs, and the man who finished making it today is very different from the man who started it five years ago. So this is not a set of ideas put down at one moment, nor is it the story of my life; it is merely a collection of attempts made at various times to make sense of life's journey. Thus you won't find much in here about how fab it is to be a rock star in Queen; but you may find, in contrast, glimpses of someone quite small and insecure. I know him well.
-	A few months later, I found myself in LA doing very little. I suddenly realised that four musicians, with whom I'd long wanted to play, were at the end of a local telephone call. To my great surprise they all liked the ideas I had, so I took my courage in both hands, booked a studio, and in we went. None of us had done this kind of thing before - no record company, no plans for release, no back-up organisations - just us. Just for fun.	+	Music is joy to me, and living in it is sometimes the only safe place to be. Much of what is recorded here is for fun, escapism, music for it's own sake, and although I mean what I say, take it all with a small pinch of salt.
-	In [[Star Fleet]], recorded on the first day, you can hear a kind of nervous exhilaration. The new situation produced a strange and different kind of energy.	+	In my mind, this album was always called Back To The Light. At it's beginning I felt no real hope of finding the light; now it glimmers dimly, encouragingly, but always intermittently in the hall of mirrors around me. I suppose if we ever knew exactly where the light was coming from, getting there would be easy.....
-	In [[Let Me Out]] - an old song of mine which found new life - and in [[Blues Breaker]], which of course is purely spontaneous, you can hear a much more relaxed set of people, just laying back and enjoying the fresh inspiration of each other's playing.
-	I could have put these tapes in a bottom draw and kept them as a private record of one of the best experiences of my life. But the few people I've played them for have urged be to "publish", and it will make me very happy if others can enjoy this stuff the way I have.	+	Management: Jim Beach and Julie Glover
-	I've attempted to hone ''Star Fleet'' into something like a "proper record" - my thanks to Roger for helping me with the chorus vocals. But I haven't messed one scrap with the tracking done on the day. The rest is simply mixed 'naked'.	+	Tour manager: Gerry Stickels.
-	In [[Blues Breaker]] you can hear us smiling as we search for answering phrases. In the last solo of [[Let Me Out]], Edward tortures his top string to it's audible death and winds up quite naturally on the remaining five. I'll leave the rest to imagination. It's not too hard to figure out who did what.	+	Sleeve design and photography by Richard Gray
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		+	Fan Club: 46 Pembridge Road, London W11 3HN.
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		+	These performances were digitally recorded on two linked Sony '3324' 24-track machines with Apogee filters and mixed back on to two tracks on the same machines. The album was then digitally compiled at West Heath Studios with Ian Sylvester. The guitars were played mainly either through 'Zoom' boxes or good old (or new) Vox AC30's.
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		+	Extra expert programming by David Richards and Brian Zellis.
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		+	For the past 20 years I have been privileged to work with the best team in the world. Thank you Roger, John and our dear incomparable, sorely missed, Freddie, and all those who worked for Queen over the years, for getting me this far.
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		+	This album is dedicated to Harold May, Alfred Dobson, and Freddie Mercury. And to all those loved ones we have lost too soon.
	==Brian talks==		==Brian talks==

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Tracklists

Vinyl version	Japanese CD version	Hollywood Records CD version
Side 1: 01. The Dark - time 02. Back To The Light - time 03. Love Token - time 04. Resurrection - time 05. Back To The Light - time 06. Driven By You - time Side 2: 01. Nothin' But Blue - time 02. I'm Scared - time 03. Last Horizon - time 04. Let Your Heart Rule Your Head - time 05. Just One Life - time 06. Rollin' Over - time	01. The Dark - 2:20 02. Back To The Light - 4:59 03. Love Token - 5:55 04. Resurrection - 5:27 05. Too Much Love Will Kill You - 4:28 06. Driven By You - 4:11 07. Nothin' But Blue - 3:31 08. I'm Scared - 4:00 09. Last Horizon - 4:10 10. Let Your Heart Rule Your Head - 3:51 11. Just One Life - 3:37 12. Rollin' Over - 4:36 13. Just One Life (Guitar Version) - 3:36 14. Too Much Love Will Kill You (Guitar Version) - 4:31	01. The Dark - 2:20 02. Back To The Light - 4:59 03. Love Token - 5:55 04. Resurrection - 5:27 05. Too Much Love Will Kill You - 4:28 06. Driven By You - 4:11 07. Nothin' But Blue - 3:31 08. I'm Scared - 4:00 09. Last Horizon - 4:10 10. Let Your Heart Rule Your Head - 3:51 11. Just One Life - 3:37 12. Rollin' Over - 4:36 13. Driven By You (new version) - 4:10

Credits

• Musicians:

Brian May - all vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards and anything else around except:

Cozy Powell - drums on Back To The Light, Love Token, Resurrection, Nothin' But Blue, I'm Scared, and Driven By You (new version)

Geoff Dugmore - drums on Let Your Heart Rule Your Head and Rollin' Over

Gary Tibbs - bass guitar on Back To The Light, Let Your Heart Rule Your Head, and Rollin' Over

Neil Murray - bass guitar on Love Token, I'm Scared, and Driven By You (new version)

John Deacon - bass guitar on Nothin' But Blue

Mike Moran - piano on Love Token and Rollin' Over, keyboards on Last Horizon

Don Airey - extra keyboards on Resurrection and Nothin' But Blue

Miriam Stockley - backing vocals on Back To The Light and Rollin' Over

Maggie Ryder - backing vocals on Back To The Light and Rollin' Over

Suzie O'List - backing vocals on Back To The Light and Let Your Heart Rule Your Head

Gill O'Donovan - backing vocals on Back To The Light and Let Your Heart Rule Your Head

Chris Thompson - co-lead vocals on Rollin' Over

• Produced by Brian May and Justin Shirley-Smith
• Engineered by Justin Shirley-Smith
• Recorded between 1980 and 1992, mainly at Allerton Hill Studios

Charts

• #35 UK, #125 US

Liner notes

Dear folks,

This is an album of songs, and the man who finished making it today is very different from the man who started it five years ago. So this is not a set of ideas put down at one moment, nor is it the story of my life; it is merely a collection of attempts made at various times to make sense of life's journey. Thus you won't find much in here about how fab it is to be a rock star in Queen; but you may find, in contrast, glimpses of someone quite small and insecure. I know him well.

Music is joy to me, and living in it is sometimes the only safe place to be. Much of what is recorded here is for fun, escapism, music for it's own sake, and although I mean what I say, take it all with a small pinch of salt.

In my mind, this album was always called Back To The Light. At it's beginning I felt no real hope of finding the light; now it glimmers dimly, encouragingly, but always intermittently in the hall of mirrors around me. I suppose if we ever knew exactly where the light was coming from, getting there would be easy.....

Management: Jim Beach and Julie Glover

Tour manager: Gerry Stickels.

Sleeve design and photography by Richard Gray

Fan Club: 46 Pembridge Road, London W11 3HN.

These performances were digitally recorded on two linked Sony '3324' 24-track machines with Apogee filters and mixed back on to two tracks on the same machines. The album was then digitally compiled at West Heath Studios with Ian Sylvester. The guitars were played mainly either through 'Zoom' boxes or good old (or new) Vox AC30's.

Extra expert programming by David Richards and Brian Zellis.

For the past 20 years I have been privileged to work with the best team in the world. Thank you Roger, John and our dear incomparable, sorely missed, Freddie, and all those who worked for Queen over the years, for getting me this far.

This album is dedicated to Harold May, Alfred Dobson, and Freddie Mercury. And to all those loved ones we have lost too soon.

Brian talks

blah blah blah

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