I think this is the most audacious song we have taken on so far. Thanks to Brett Biggs and Dave Bayliss for help on drums and Keys duties. Links to their KZread channels below.
Today (4th Feb 2021) marks the 30 year anniversary of the release of the last Queen album with Freddie. We truly hope you like our cover of this song. It took some putting together we can tell you.
"Innuendo" is a song by the British rock band Queen. Written by Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor but credited to Queen, it is the opening track on the album of the same name, and was released as the first single from the album. The single debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1991, the band's first number one hit since "Under Pressure" in 1981, and additionally reached the top ten in ten other countries.
At six and a half minutes, it is one of Queen's epic songs and their longest ever released as a single, exceeding "Bohemian Rhapsody" by 35 seconds. The song has been described as "reminiscent" of "Bohemian Rhapsody" because it was "harking back to their progressive rock roots". It features a flamenco guitar section performed by Yes guitarist Steve Howe and Brian May, an operatic interlude and sections of hard rock that recall early Queen, in addition to lyrics inspired in part by Mercury's illness; although media stories about his health were being denied strenuously, he was by now seriously ill with AIDS, which would claim his life in November 1991, 10 months after the song was released.
The song was accompanied by a music video featuring animated representations of the band on a cinema screen akin to Nineteen Eighty-Four, eerie plasticine figure stop-motion and harrowing imagery; it has been described as one of the band's darkest and most moving works. AllMusic described the song as a "superb epic", which deals with "mankind's inability to live harmoniously."
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