I hate...

[fourstarfizzle]

.. the fact that I have to prove to my drunken father that 'Made In Heaven' wasn't the last Queen album made whilst Freddie Mercury was still alive.

Hell, he doesn't even believe 'Innuendo' is a Queen album.

It's a real shame, as he saw Queen live 3 times, before they got huge, and at one gig in Manchester, some shit band opened for em callde 'U2'.

[MalaCloudy Black]

U2, they anything like UB40?

[fourstarfizzle]

Yeh, but more irish and gay.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

I thought Made In Heaven was released after Innuendo?

[fourstarfizzle]

It wasn't, 4 years after Freddie Mercury died. Innuendo was the last album written and released whilst he was dying. Hence why most of the songs have a deathish overtone to them.

Innuendo was release 5th February 1991, Freddie Mercury died 7 months later, 5th September 1991.

I tried to argue Innuendo was the last album released when he was alive, he thinks it was Made In Heaven.

Edited January 10, 2009 by fourstarfizzle

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Okay. So Made in Heaven did come after, but also after the death. I buy that.

[fourstarfizzle]

Yeh, Made In Heaven was basically put together as Freddie Mercury recorded as many vocals as he could, months before his death. He basically told the band to finish the songs later, after he'd died. He basically told them to write anything, he'd sing it, and leave them with whatever he could to make a song from it.

So with what he recorded, they mixed it with old material he had recorded and constructed an album from it.