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Queen – I'm Going Slightly Mad (4:23)

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“I’m Going Slightly Mad” is a Queen song, written by Freddie Mercury. It is the second track on the 1991 album Innuendo. Although the accompanying music video appears to project the song as being very humorous and light-hearted, many people believe that the eerie keyboards and bleak lyrics reflect darker undertones, inspired by AIDS-induced dementia. Actress Cleo Rocos has confirmed this notion, stating that Mercury had explained to her and mutual friend Kenny Everett that the song documents the tragic mental decline he suffered during the final years of his life.

The single cover was inspired by a Grandville illustration (as are the others from the album).

The accompanying video is one of Queen’s most famous, along with Bohemian Rhapsody and I Want to Break Free.

The video - like all other Innuendo videos directed by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher of DoRo Productions - also features the band dressed and acting in very absurd ways, including but not limited to guitarist Brian May dressed as a penguin, drummer Roger Taylor wearing a tea kettle on his head, a man in a gorilla suit, who was later revealed to be Elton John, bassist John Deacon as a jester, and Mercury wearing a bunch of bananas as a wig (corresponding with the line “I think I’m a banana tree”).

In interviews Brian May has said that it was (with These Are the Days of Our Lives) the last video Mercury shot and that he was already very ill at the time, although Mercury is very mobile in the video. This was not the case in the video for These Are the Days of Our Lives, where Mercury hardly moves around at all.
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  • Greatest Hits II
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  • Innuendo
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  • Classic Queen
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  • Greatest Hits Platinum Collection
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  • LuciaAlfie

    Amazing song writing <3

    March 2012

  • notyetaladie

    I am an amazing human being.

    January 2012

  • nicolasbj

    insane!

    December 2011

  • SpecialKKay

    Great song !

    December 2011

  • manzarek93

    Creo que esta es mi canción favorita de Queen.

    November 2011

  • Unsociable21

    Мой любимый клип. [6]

    November 2011

  • Olrona

    Roger, what did you do?

    September 2011

  • BlackRoseKilla

    Oh dear :3

    September 2011

  • Jericho09

    happy 65th freddie; RIP

    September 2011

  • tyveranthula

    I think I'm a banana tree :D [2] Well, Freddie as mad person. Brian as penguin, John with Joker's hat, and Roger... Uh, Roger, what did you put on your head?!

    August 2011

  • alfonzoloya

    i'm going slightly mad too.

    August 2011

  • rifampicin

    I think I'm a banana tree :D

    July 2011

  • BeatleFreak98

    The best band!!! [2]

    July 2011

  • riosapolinar

    The best band!!!

    July 2011

  • Kate_Lindstrom

    Мой любимый клип. [5] дада, и песня тоже.

    June 2011

  • NeProrok

    Мой любимый клип. [4]

    May 2011

  • malusienka

    Pinguins!

    May 2011

  • wisaac5440

    I can't believe I've never heard this track. I'm not the biggest Queen fan. I like it alot!

    May 2011

  • jonininman

    queen are awsome

    April 2011

  • clarky212

    'and there you have it.....'

    April 2011
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