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Marlene meets Masato Honda - I Was Born To Love You (2007)

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

The song received its live debut on the 2005 Queen + Paul Rodgers tour of Japan. Brian May and Roger Taylor performed the song acoustically. The song was also performed during Queen + Adam Lambert's concerts in South Korea and Japan, which was the first time that a full live band was used for the performance.

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

Jewels, a 24 bit digitally remastered compilation CD with extensive liner notes and obi-strip, featuring "I Was Born to Love You", was released in 2004 only in Japan, and the song re-entered the Japanese chart.

In 2004, Queen's version was also used as the theme for Pride, the successful Japanese drama starring Takuya Kimura and Yūko Takeuchi, aired on Fuji Television.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Was_Born_to_Love_You_(song)

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