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Queen – Innuendo (6:34)

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“Innuendo” was pieced together “like a jigsaw puzzle.” The recurring theme (with the Boléro-esque beat) started off as a jam session between May, Deacon and Taylor. Mercury then added the melody and some of the lyrics, which were then completed by Taylor.

The middle section was primarily Mercury’s work, according to an interview with May in October 1994’s Guitar Magazine. It features a flamenco guitar solo, followed by a classically influenced bridge, and then the solo again but performed with electric guitars. This section is especially complex, featuring a pattern of three bars in 5/4 time (reasonably uncommon in popular music) followed by four bars in the more often used 3/4 time.

The “You can be anything you want to be” section features a very sophisticated orchestration, created by Mercury and producer David Richards using the popular Korg M1 keyboard/synth/workstation. Mercury had arranged and co-arranged orchestras in his solo career, and closed the previous Queen album with “Was It All Worth It”, which included a Gershwin-esque interlude also coming from an M1 synth. The bridge section in “Innuendo” is in 3/4, showing once again Mercury’s affection for trinary metres: “Bicycle Race” is another one with main sections in 4/4 and middle-eight in 3/4, and some of his best-known pieces (namely “We Are the Champions” and “Somebody to Love”) were in 6/8, as would be his last ever composition, “A Winter’s Tale”.
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  • Greatest Hits II
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  • Joao_Wolf_

    till the end... of time

    Sunday morning

  • karutan

    epic masterpiece [25]

    20 days ago

  • tassi_melo

    6 minutes and 34 seconds of pure art.

    28 days ago

  • tassi_melo

    Innuendo > Bohemian Rhapsody [3]

    28 days ago

  • Laro20

    "surrender your ego, be free, be free to yourself!" I fucking LOVE Queen.

    last month

  • himmel_liebe

    Oh yes, we'll keep on trying!!!

    last month

  • jhansennueve

    Innuendo > Bohemian Rhapsody [2]

    March 2012

  • Tarkus10

    Innuendo > Bohemian Rhapsody

    March 2012

  • Joao_Wolf_

    Innuendo is 2º best Queen song... Before Bohemian Rapsody.

    March 2012

  • stupidlove_

    epic masterpiece [24] ♥

    February 2012

  • SITOSITO1212

    "You can be anything you want to be Just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be ... be free to yourself". well said Freddy :)

    February 2012

  • SITOSITO1212

    epic masterpiece [22 ]

    February 2012

  • Besser_Dieu

    epic masterpiece [21]

    February 2012

  • cjs1985

    epic masterpiece [20]

    January 2012

  • PRagdoll

    epic masterpiece [19]

    January 2012

  • ChrisDarksteel

    epic masterpiece [18]

    January 2012

  • clarky212

    Queen at their best

    January 2012

  • hommerzero

    epic masterpiece [17]

    January 2012

  • nicolasbj

    best Queen song! Steve Howe plays an amazing guitar solo!!

    December 2011

  • Darediego

    epic masterpiece [16]

    December 2011
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