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I Was Born to Love You (song)

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"I Was Born to Love You"
Song

"I Was Born to Love You" is a 1985's song by Freddie Mercury, and was released as a single and on the Mr. Bad Guy album. After Mercury's death, Queen re-recorded this song for their album Made in Heaven in 1995.

The song received its live debut on the 2005 Queen + Paul Rodgers tour of Japan. Roger Taylor and Brian May performed the song acoustically.

Appearances in other media

The song has been featured in the multiple television advertisements and a program mainly in Japan. Original version recorded by Mercury was featured in the TV commercial of Japanese cosmetics company Noevia in the mid 1980s. Re-recorded version by remainders of the Queen was released as a single exclusively in Japan in February 1996, because the song was used in a TV ad for Kirin Ichiban Shibori[1], one of the best-selling liquors of the country produced by the Kirin Brewery Company. The single became their first song that entered the Japanese chart since "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)", released in 1977.

In 2004, their version was used as the theme for Pride which was aired on Fuji Television, the successful Japanese drama starring Takuya Kimura and Yūko Takeuchi that featured the songs by the band. Jewels, their tie-in compilation album featured "I Was Born to Love You" and released only in Japan, debuted at the number-one on the United World Chart, and the song itself also re-entered the Japanese chart.

A cover version of this song – based around the Queen re-recording – is featured in the fourth level of the Nintendo DS video game Elite Beat Agents.

This song was featured in episode 29 of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, during a competitive game of gym-class volleyball.

Chart position

Freddie Mercury version

Charts (1985) Peak
positions
German Media Control Chart 10
UK Singles Chart 11
Austrian Singles Chart 20
Swiss Singles Chart 24
Dutch Singles Chart 34
Japanese Oricon Singles Chart 55
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 76

Queen version

Year Charts Peak positions
1996 Japanese Oricon Chart 45
2004 40 (Re-Entry)


References

  1. ^ a b "クイーン アイ・ワズ・ボーン・トゥ・ラヴ・ユー - goo 音楽 (Release information - Queen - I Was Born to Love You)" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-06-28. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |works= ignored (help)
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