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Queen - Innuendo

submitted by Zifnab

1 decade 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago

"Innuendo" is a song by English rock band Queen. It is the opening track on the album of the same name. Though credited to the whole band, the song was mainly written by Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor. At six and a half minutes, it is one of Queen's longest songs. The song went to #1 in the UK. Featured is a flamenco guitar solo performed by Yes guitarist Steve Howe, an operatic interlude that harks back to the Queen of old and sections of heavy metal.

"Innuendo" was put together as a jigsaw puzzle. The recurring theme with the bolero-esque beat started off as a jam session between May, Deacon and Taylor, to which Mercury then added the melody and some of the lyrics (which were then completed by Roger Taylor).

The middle-bit was Mercury's, according to what May said to Guitar Magazine in October 1994. It features a flamenco guitar solo, then a classical-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, infrequently found in popular music, followed by four bars in the more often used 3/4 time. Thanks Wikipedia)