Innuendo (Remastered Standard Edition)

Original UK Release Date: 5 May 1991“40 Years of Glam Rocking Genius” – NME 14th March 2001“Britain’s Best Loved Band” – The Sun 25th February 2011“Remastered Queen is jaw-dropping for its rabble-rousing
consistency” – Q August 2011Between 1984 and 1995 Queen released their last five studio
albums and consolidated their reputation as the biggest,
brashest and boldest band in the world. They achieved
legendary status as they delivered THE defining performance of
the century at Live Aid as well as headlining massive stadium
concerts all over the world. Queen also released some of their
best loved and most anthemic work in this period, before and
after the passing of Freddie Mercury in 1991.Now in 2011 Island Records reissue the five Queen albums
from this period on September 5th (to coincide with what would
have been Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday) as part of the
band’s 40th Anniversary celebrations – ‘The Works’, ‘A Kind Of
Magic’, ‘The Miracle’, ‘Innuendo’ and ‘Made In Heaven’. The
reissues will be accompanied by the third in the ‘Queen: Deep
Cuts’ series, which looks at some of the lesser known tracks
from these albums.Many Queen favourites were released during this period
including ‘Radio Gaga’ (the track from which Lady Gaga took
her name), ‘I Want To Break Free’ (complete with the infamous
cross-dressing Coronation Street parody video that MTV
banned in the US), ‘One Vision’, ‘A Kind of Magic’, ‘I Want It All’,
‘The Miracle’ and ‘These Are The Days of Our Lives’ (featuring
Freddie’s final haunting video appearance).These five albums cover the era when Queen were elevated to
truly legendary status as they stole the show at Live Aid in front
of a global TV audience of 1.9 billion people, and wowed
audiences with subsequent headline shows at Knebworth and
Wembley in 1986, the latter recently voted by the public as one
of the most iconic events ever seen at the stadium. This was
also Queen’s most consistent period of commercial success
with each of the five albums going platinum in the UK and ‘A
Kind of Magic’ and ‘Made in Heaven’ each selling over 1 million
copies, the latter doing so four years after Freddie’s death
showing that the Queen legacy reigns eternal.As well as their huge UK gigs they continued the global
domination of the late 70’s playing Rock in Rio twice to crowds
of over 300,000 each time. On their subsequent Magic tour they
sold over 1 million tickets around the world playing the first ever
stadium gig in Eastern Europe at the Nepstadium in Budapest
with fans hitchhiking from all over the Eastern Bloc to attend.After Freddie’s death The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert saw
a packed Wembley set alight again to the music of Queen once
again in April 1992, with stars from all over the world joining
Queen surviving members John Deacon, Brian May and Roger
Taylor on stage. Subsequently The Mercury Phoenix Trust was
founded to help distribute money raised from this concert for
AIDS awareness. Since then, the Trust has raised and
distributed over $15 million to help in the fight against AIDS.
The charity has just created a truly unique initiative with the
launch of the ‘Freddie For A Day’ Global Charity Network.Queens 40th Anniversary year has kicked off in spectacular
style so far with their first ever major exhibition ‘Stormtroopers
in Stilettos’ in London’s East End which drew an incredible
crowd of over 20,000 visitors in two weeks, and kicked off with a
star studded launch party attended by the likes of Foo Fighters
and Jessie J.A recent two part BBC TV documentary drew widespread rave
reviews as Brian May and Roger Taylor looked back over their
first 40 years in detail for the first time. The Guardian described
it as ‘fantastic and moving’.Meanwhile the bands first ten albums have been reissued to
considerable acclaim. The Telegraph said of their early work,
‘Queen’s greatest music was extravagantly innovative,
technically brilliant and created with a jeweller’s care.’These last five studio albums highlight the diverse talent,
musical ambition and global success of a band made up of
some of the best songwriters, musicians and performers of all
time.