May contributed occasional guitar phrases to the original recording and played the swooping harp glissandos by pasting together multiple takes of single chords.
[5] The group then had a three-week writing and rehearsing session in July in a rented house near Kington, Herefordshire before recording began.
Introduced during the News of the World Tour in 1977, "Love of My Life" was such a concert favourite that Mercury would stop singing and would conduct the audience as they took over.
It was especially well received during concerts in South America, and as a result, the band released the Live Killers version of the song as a single there.
"Love of My Life" had both May singing a few lines and archive footage of Mercury performing the song during the inaugural Wembley concert in 1986.
[9] The acoustic version of the song featured on the band's 1979 album Live Killers[1] was recorded at their concert at Festhalle Frankfurt on 2 February of that year.