compositions, long guitar solos, and sudden tempo changes. "My Fairy King" "My Fairy King", written by Freddie Mercury, deals with Rhye, a fantasy world he created with his younger sister and which features in other Queen songs, most notably "Seven Seas of Rhye". Freddie Mercury borrowed some lines from Robert Browning's poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". The song was written while the band was in the studio, and contains many vocal overdubbed harmonies, which Freddie Mercury was fond of. Roger Taylor also displays his high vocal range, hitting the highest notes in the composition. The vocal overdubs technique would later be used in many Queen songs, most notably "Bohemian Rhapsody". Brian May said that after the lyric "Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me" was written, Freddie Mercury claimed he was singing about his own mother. Subsequently, Freddie Bulsara took the stage name Freddie Mercury. This was another attempt to separate him from his stage persona. As Freddie Mercury once explained, "When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man." "My Fairy King" is the first song on the album to feature Freddie Mercury's piano skills – as the piano on "Doing All Right" was played by Brian May, who was quite impressed by Freddie Mercury's piano playing on the track. From this point on Freddie Mercury handled most of Queen's piano parts. Side two "Liar" Originally titled "Lover," the rudiments of this song were written by Freddie Mercury and guitarist Mike Bersin from Freddie Mercury's earlier group, Ibex. Queen reworked it, and Freddie Mercury took full credit since he had written the lyrics. As mentioned on the transcription on EMI Music Publishing's Off the Record sheet music, this is one of the band's few 1970s tracks to feature a Hammond organ. "Liar" was a staple of early concerts, but its inclusion was intermittent in later years, before returning in a shortened form for The Works Tour. For the Magic Tour, it was shortened to just the opening guitar section as a segue into "Tear It Up". "The Night Comes Down" Brian May wrote this song shortly after the band's formation in 1970, following the break-up of Smile. It was first recorded at De Lane Lea Studios in December 1971, when the band were hired to test the studio's new equipment in exchange for being allowed to record proper demos for their attempt to