Innuendo - Queen
The Official Music Video

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Written by Mercury and Taylor but credited to Queen, it is the opening track on the album of the same name, and was released as the first single from the album. The single debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1991, the first number one hit since Under Pressure
At six and a half minutes, it is one of Queen's epic songs and their longest ever released as a single, exceeding "Bohemian Rhapsody" by 35 seconds. The song has been described as "reminiscent" of "Bohemian Rhapsody" because it was "harking back to their progressive rock roots"
Released on 23 November 1990, combining stop motion animation with rotoscoping and featuring plasticine figures reminiscent of the album artwork in a detailed miniature cinema set.
The band members only appear as illustrations and images, mainly taken from earlier Queen music videos, on a cinema screen in the same manner as in the film Nineteen Eighty-Four.
With Mercury drawn in the style of Leonardo da Vinci, May in the style of Victorian etchings, Taylor in the style of Jackson Pollock, and Deacon in the style of Pablo Picasso
It features a flamenco guitar section performed by Yes guitarist Steve Howe and Brian May and an operatic interlude and sections of hard rock that recall early Queen
The song was accompanied by a music video featuring animated representations of the band on a cinema screen akin to Nineteen Eighty-Four, eerie plasticine figure stop-motion and harrowing imagery; it has been described as one of the band's darkest and most moving work
"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.
AllMusic described the song as a "superb epic", which deals with "mankind's inability to live harmoniously".
The video won production company DoRo a Monitor Award for Best Achievement in Music Video.
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