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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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