Brian also wrote a ballad for this album. Truth is, he is the one who comes off best on the record, even though Freddie wrote the biggest hits.
Like a cousin to She Makes Me, Leaving is in the trope of ’39 or Long Away. If one put together an album of Brian’s mid tempo acoustic tracks frommthe 70s I think they would have made for a pretty standard California rock sounding album.
I dig this song even though the subject matter is trite and on the nose. Like i said earlier: give the boys a phrase and they’ll conjure up a tune,
Grade: B
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