This is so lovely it brings tears to my eyes and memories flooding back. I had no idea that the backing vocals, fabulous close harmonies, were done by Freddie Mercury. Gorgeous - I'm going to listen to it again.
My dad sent this to my mum on a cassette after they first met. 20 years and 2 kids down the line, I can only ever hear this as "their song" and it makes me happy every time its played!
As I've said in so many other comment threads for 70's songs, we never knew how blessed we were back then when we got to enjoy this music all the time on the radio when it was new. Riding to the lake in a pickup truck with my transistor radio listening to all of this wonderful music and enjoying youth. The summers of 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1978 were the best times of my life and all of this music takes me right back to it.