Artist: QUEEN
Album: INNUENDO REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1991/ 2011
EAN/UPS: 0602527800035
Media type: CD

Innuendo is a 1991 album by English rock band Queen. It is the band's fourteenth studio album and the last to be composed entirely of new material. It is also the final studio album to be released while lead singer Freddie Mercury was still alive. The album was praised by critics and fans as one of the strongest albums of Queen's later career[citation needed]. It reached number one on the UK album charts (2 weeks) as well as in the Netherlands (4 weeks), in Switzerland (8 weeks), Germany (6 weeks), and Italy. The album was released in the United States one day after it was released in Britain. The album would be the first Queen album to go Gold in the US upon its release since The Works in 1984. It peaked at number thirty in the United States.

The album was recorded when Mercury was in the final stages of a battle with AIDS. Much of the material on the album deals with the band's coming to terms with his imminent death. The theme is also reflected in the music, which can be heavy and arresting ("Innuendo" and "Headlong"), but also bleak and dark ("The Show Must Go On", "I'm Going Slightly Mad" and "Don't Try So Hard"), and very often both ("Bijou").

The Album was also noted for being a return to the more prog rock sound of 70's albums like Sheer Heart Attack and A Night At The Opera.

The album cover was designed by Queen and Richard Gray. The booklets and single covers from the album are by Grandville, or are inspired by his illustrations.

TRACKLIST:

"Innuendo" (Queen) – 6:29
"I'm Going Slightly Mad" (Queen) – 4:22
"Headlong" (Queen) – 4:39
"I Can't Live with You" (Queen) – 4:35
"Don't Try So Hard" (Queen) – 3:39
"Ride the Wild Wind" (Queen) – 4:41
"All God's People" (Queen/Mike Moran) – 4:19
"These Are the Days of Our Lives" (Queen) – 4:12
"Delilah" (Queen) – 3:32
"The Hitman" (Queen) – 4:52
"Bijou" (Queen) – 3:36
"The Show Must Go On" (Queen) – 4:24

LINE-UP:

Freddie Mercury: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Piano, Synthesisers, Programming
Brian May: Electric Guitars, Backing Vocals, Synthesisers, Programming
Roger Taylor: Drums & Percussion, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Synthesisers, Programming
John Deacon: Bass, Synthesisers, Programming

Guest musicians:

Steve Howe: Acoustic Guitar ("Innuendo") (Credited as "Wandering Spanish Minstrel Guitar")
Mike Moran: Piano, Synthesisers, Programming ("All God's People")
David Richards: Engineering, Synthesisers, Programming
Brian Zellis: Programming
Noel Harris: Assistant engineer
Justin Shirley-Smith: Assistant engineer

Sleeve design:

Richard Gray: Sleeve design
Grandville (1803-1847): Illustrations
Angela Lumley: Additional illustrations
Simon Fowler: Photography