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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”.
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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DJ_Anubis wrote:
always has been my personal favorit! (Maybe Bohemian rhapsody, Somebody to love, ... are a little over-used)
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Just great, simply great!!
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*_*
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master of masters!!!!!
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i love going into artists or songs i dont particularly like and slating them to wind people up.........that said;......What DonnieSTFU said(3)
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torspoo wrote:
my all time fave queen song, i remember seing the music video on MTV as a kid and i was blown away! Freddy is one of the most talented and charismatic rock vocalists of all time!
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Mekon1000 wrote:
Epic song!
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davidthemugman wrote:
a nice bit of music here it would be number 4 in my top 50 tunes
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One of my favorites.
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davidthemugman wrote:
be free and he is now
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a ture classic
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classic
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Queen forever.
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DonnieSTFU wrote:
Hate saying "epic" but this is definitely their most "epic" song.
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What DonnieSTFU said. [2]
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What DonnieSTFU said.
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qrobur is overblown, self-indulgent rubbish.
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open-arms wrote:
Very good lyrics and such variety in this song
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qrobur wrote:
Sorry, but this is overblown, self-indulgent rubbish.
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