Innuendo by Queen

Innuendo, released on 4 February 1991 on Parlophone in the UK and Hollywood Records in the US, was Queen's fourteenth studio album and the last to come out while Freddie Mercury was alive. He had been diagnosed with AIDS in 1987 and kept it from the public, and his failing health pushed the record back from its planned Christmas release. Queen produced it with David Richards across sessions that ran from March 1989 to November 1990.

You'd never guess the band was working against the clock. Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon went back to the grand, lavish bombast of their mid-'70s peak: the title track's sprawling epic swagger, the giddy "I'm Going Slightly Mad", the aching "These Are the Days of Our Lives" and "The Show Must Go On", with Mercury singing like a man refusing to bow out. It topped the charts in seven countries, the UK among them. Mercury died on 24 November 1991.

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