Queen, Innuendo - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
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Innuendo: an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one.” And what is being suggested in this song? Oh, we can feel the desperate frustration and sense of betrayal indeed!
Here’s the link to the original song by Queen:
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A truly great and epic composition. I absolutely love this one, and I thought this was one that you would really appreciate for its lyrical and musical depth. I really like all the transitions and variety in the different sections. You had some great commentary on the lyrics and the music. Not only does it speak on the greed and other darker aspects of our nature, but with a sense of hope that we can rise above these qualities and push on. Your gift for seeing and describing the imagery you experience from lyrics and music was on full display here. A great musical piece for all of us to experience together with you. Great reaction! I loved it!
Queen's last masterpiece!
Honestly this is the best channel ever. Thank you for your accurate reactions.
As a classical musician, you really understood what Queen were all about... One of the greatest band ever, in my opinion the best.
Mercury was a pure genius.
God save the Queen🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🎹🎹🎹🎵🎵🎵
I agree, Amy is utterly brilliant at describing her thoughts, feelings and emotions
The video to Innuendo is amazing. One of the best Queen videos of all.
It’s a grand beginning to an absolutely spectacular album. When I first heard this album, I simply thought that the band had really become re-energized, and Freddy was really taking his singing seriously. Most of us did not know at this point that Freddy had AIDS. When he announced his health condition a few days before he died, it changed the perception of the album for me. Suddenly, them not holding back on the album made sense, they were all making one last push to the finish line, and were not going to leave anything left on the table. Then when Freddy died, the perception of the album, for me, changed again. It became a celebration of everything Queen, and everything Freddie Mercury. The album is serious, funny, spectacular, heart wrenching, and everything else in between; just like Queen, and Freddy.
Led Zeppelin KASHMIR was an influence. Robert Plant even sang Innuendo at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992
A fragment of Innuendo, mixed with a fragment of Kashmir :D
Innuendo is so layered and complex yet bitterly beautiful too. Another Queen genius work. I’m so glad you got deeply into this one. I’m going to miss you pointing out amazing sounds and explanations on Queen songs. What a wild ride this one was! Thanks 🙏
The reception of the title and album back then when it has been released and before Freddys death was quite the opposite of what it had become afterwards.
But that story has been forgotten how terrible and poor the reviews were then in spring of 1991 and I did not like the album nor the title after I had bought it early. I was disappointed like hell and withn days that should change later in november 1991 when the news spread out that freddy had died by Aids / HIV positive. And that message was so incredibly loud and big that it changed everything - and especially for the 2 latest album Innuendo and THe miracle.
Innuendo!! The song that started my addiction to Queen. The chorale, the multi-layered guitars, the musical styles, the rythms and that VOICE.
Better late than never.
@@williamwallace5857absolutely. Almost 33 years ago 🤟
I'm going slithly mad 👌
and there you have it
Slightly mad *
Nooooo
slightly
Wonderful analysis. Thank you. I feel a tinge of sadness now we reach this point, as we are now nearing the end, and the music is coloured by that reality that Freddie was facing. It is remarkable that he was able to sing so powerfully and contribute so much to these final songs and recordings.
Innuendo is an astonishing piece of art, simply a masterpiece.
It has so many layers and depths that every listening to it is an incredible experience.
Amy, you are just amazing yourself. I admire you a lot and I wish you will continue with Queen after this 50 series. I know there are a lot of great rock bands to experience but your journey into rock music has just began. You really have to do Queen's deep cuts because there are at least new 50 gems hidden.
Have no doubt you'll listen "These Are The Days" and "The Show Must Go On". But I really hope you'll check "You Don't Fool Me" and "A Winter's Tale" from the "Made In Heaven" album.
As a classic musician you should listen to " The march of the black queen" and " The prophet song".
This is a very special album, almost every song, I feel is inspired by or for Freddie. This one is very powerful about humanity's good and bad, but also exudes hope, Freddie states keep on smiling, that's so Freddie, that's exactly what he did. Bijou on this album is beautiful, then you have Freddie's song about his favorite cat Delilah which is funny and cute. Every song has a special meaning. Great reaction.
Bijou and Delilah are beautiful little gems
Impressed! She got the Kashmire influence! ❤I love thinking of this song as the hero’s journey - thanks! . I’ve said with each Queen video - you have to keep going with the Queen journey and do the deep cuts! There are so many you’ve missed and so much more to discover. I think Vlad should explain his choices and omissions. I know he’s said he wants you to experience the variety the Queen discography has but now that you appreciate their musicianship it would be a real shame not to do a deeper dive. “March of the Black Queen” “Fairy Fellers Master Stroke” “I Was Born to Love you” “Great King Rat” “Ogre Battle” “Father to Son” “In the Lap of the Gods” ”Was it all Worth it?” To name a few you missed.
Wonderful reaction, thank you, loved every minute of it
Great song and analysis. Thanks Virgin Rock
One of Queen's best albums to be sure. They really pulled out the stops on this one.
Was It All Worth It (Miracle album!) please!!!
Between the hope of The Miracle and the acceptance of Innuendo, Freddie clearly knew the cure wasn't going to arrive in time.
I don't like to hear the fear in the lyrics in this song, it makes me very sad but as I get older I come to understand this more.
Not just the lyrics, his singing is full of fear as well. It's a beautiful, painful expression of humanity.
How could you comment in such a competent, so genuine, so precise, and so captivating way on this true Queen's masterpiece? Please never, never give up because this channel fill my music lover's soul.
Definitely do more Yes! Please and thank you!
I’d suggest the song “Awaken”, not only because it is some of Steve Howe’s best work, but also it has a harp in it! 😊
Agree! Awaken simply must be the next Yes song :)
In my honest opinion Innuendo is their Opus Magnum.
Besides, Queen plus Steve Howe - that couldn't go wrong.
I hope you will listen Bijou. It's a guitar masterpiece.
She did. 👍
Fun fact - The Sun newspaper gave this 2 stars (says a lot about the attitudes of the media at the time towards people who didn't fit the norm) and was called going through the motions and bland.
This has to be one of your very best reactions/reviews/interpretations, and-- it was as inspiring as the music.
Yes, it reminds a little of “Kashmir” by Led Zeppelin. Not by chance, Robert Plant chose this song to sing in tribute to Freddie with Queen
That's right. Plant said he chose it because it was so much like a Zeppelin song.
@@robertkramer2271 yep.I heard Phil Collins saying that Genesis wrote "Squonk" after listening to Kashmir, trying to sound like Zepp, but in my opinion Queen had better success
@FABIO_MARTINSS I love Genesis, but I don't hear "Kashmir" when I hear "Squonk". But, you definitely hear it in this song.
it was 'i want it all'..
really? did Robert sing this? OMG! i would love to hear that!
I guess it is apparent by now that Queen were heavily influenced by many genres especially (Classical) in that they wrote and composed very much like classical artists of the past did . Incorporating a main theme , with multiple temple changes and movements incorporated in around it . These guys were unapproachable by most bands. What they did was un - reproducible by many bands. That's why you do not see many covering their music , unless the artists covering it are in their own right epic , and at the top of their game in their virtuoso ability.
Terminé llorando, realmente no me había dado cuenta de cuánto me gusta Queen, tremenda reacción, aprendí muchísimo. Saludos y cariños
Innuendo is such a great song, and album.
This song is an action-adventure, hero's journey epic movie without the movie. Simply fantastic.
Another amazing piece of Queen is: "White Queen" the live version at the Hammersmith Odeon 1975
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IMO, one of their epic masterpieces!
I love this song, it's a masterpiece, the Bohemian Rhapsody of the 90´s.
Finally!! ❤❤❤🤩🤩🤩 Thank you!
YES is Jhonn Deacon's favorite band
Yes and Queen have a long history of mutual respect ....They go back as far as 1971 when Queen supported Yes at their London Polytechnic gig ... Steve Howe said that he admired them not just because of their music but also their camaraderie. He was very honoured that Queen asked him to play on their album. But that story looks like an intervention from Higher power, it is not just serendipity... ❤
There are many more Freddie & Queen songs to enjoy and they are beautiful gems, a list of 50 songs I think is too short. Queen is one of the most popular bands in history, despite not being to the critics taste, it's 20 years of career with Freddie, for many Bohemian Rapshody is the best song ever, Live Aid was shown to be the best staging of a rock number in history, the movie, the most successful biopic of a musician, if you look at Spotify, Queen is the most listened to classic rock band, even over the Beatles. Their greatest hits album, is the best selling album ever in Britain, that you can understand is not easy in the UK. I think your list should at least have 100 Queen songs, including some live versions, because there are some gems that surpass what was done in the studio, like Somebody to love in ‘Rock Montreal’, there are many songs that live took another dimension.
The bit towards the end where it moves from the fast part back to the 1st verse style of music gives me goosebumps
Finally, Innuendo 😍😍😍😍 I'm so excited!!! This is probably the first time I comment before actually watching the video 😂
Beautiful reaction. You made me realize something: The Miracle and Innuendo are the last Queen records with Freddie alive. Both have a song with the same name. The Miracle and Innuendo talk about the same thing. The Miracle is optimistic towards a destiny, while Innuendo it's much more realistic in a sense of fate.
Just a thought, no matter what, we'll just keep on tryin'!!!
You're right, Led Zeppelin's Kashmir is definitely an influence on this track along with Ravel's Bolero with the ghost of Bohemian Rhapsody peeking over their shoulders (it also reminds me of Spanish Caravan by The Doors). Great to hear Queen get their ambition back after losing their way a bit in the 80s. Unusually for a Queen song, the music for this was written first and it definitely is the stronger element here. Queen played an orchestral version of Innuendo before some of their recent concerts and it sounded like the intro to a Roman epic. There's a cover version by Bryan Adams that's worth a listen too.
you're mixing up things. Writing music first was a norm (a least for Freddie), not other way around. One important exception was Killer Queen when he wrote the words first.
@@konradtomala3580 I'm not mixing up anything, thanks for the offensive remarks, pal. Innuendo wasn't just written by him, so your comment doesn't apply.
@@konradtomala3580 Oh, and if you're going to be mouthing off at least don't post anonymously like a coward.
Amy, please watch the video. I'm always amazed at how accurate you are at describing what pictures the music paints.
Freddie gave everything he had left on this album, and the band went with him to the end. Epic.
One of my favorite Queen songs. Very underrated.
Quite an exceptional analysis..wonderful....well done Amy....you really get this one!
I really hope to see you react to 'Freddie Mercury - Time Waits For No One' at some point (I recommend the official video version as it's more striped down, Just Freddie's vocals and a piano), 'Time' is a 1986 song recorded by Freddie Mercury for Dave Clark's musical of the same name.
it's a beautiful song, I think you'll love it.
I have various versions / mixes of that song, but my favourite is the original 7 inch single from 1986 Time LP, which has a different mix to the one on The Freddie Mercury Album from 1992.
10:13 Matter of fact, while performing "Innuendo" at the Tribute Concert, Robert Plant included the fifth verse of "Kashmir" (Oh, pilot of the storm...), after the second chorus, before moving to the interlude. So....
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I was pretty amazed when this album came out. It was the first queen album I bought on CD too.
My favourite Queen song
Sou do Brasil e gosto muitos das suas reações, parabéns pelo trabalho.
I was waiting for this one.
I MUST have missed her reaction to Queen's "The Prophet's Song" as it one of the very greatest Queen songs ever and I know she would adore it. Can someone please direct me to it? And Amy, if you missed it, PLEASE PLEASE react to The Propet's Song or at least listen to it for yourself - it is a masterpiece.
Sadly, she missed it.... 😢
Oh wow! I've had no idea Steve Howe also played on _this_ musical masterpiece! 😀
The Show Must Go On is my Fave Queen Song, this is my second Fave
We love the gut wrenching fear and the smile he carries while he sings.
Hello, I recommend you listen to these songs from the Innuendo album - ''Don't Try So Hard'', ''All God's People'', ''These Are The Days Of Our Lives''. Thank you.
The Show Must Go On!
@@mortimore4030I am sure she will.
I'm quite sure the collection is already set. And considering that throughout Queen's 80's albums all of the selections were the singles I predict the songs will be:
"I'm going slightly mad", "These are the days of our lives" and "The show must go on".
I would imagine The Show Must Go On and These Are The Days Of Our Lives will be two of the final selections of songs in this series, I'll be shocked if they aren't. I also suspect there'll be one from the Heaven For Everyone album as well.
... and also BIJOU. 💖💎
Most Metal Queen's song, one of my fav
most symphonicisch metal, for me , as a metal lover, it was Stone cold crazy by Queen. Also covered by Metallica and Brighton Rock.
FINALLY!!! My heart is in peace now =)
Now that you’ve reached the Innuendo album, when you get to your reaction to “The Show Must Go On”, PLEASE also react to the gorgeous track that acts as a prelude to “Show” titled “Bijou”. It’s a track by Brian that turns the song structure inside out, being largely instrumental but with a brief vocal bridge sung by Freddie.
The songs truly should be heard consecutively. ❤👑
Yes. YES.
One of my absolute favorite queen tracks.. 🥰 if not my favorite.
Please react to Bijou from this album. Wonderful reaction as always!
It is like a miniature opera, and much more ...
There's a lot of cynicism about Rock music, whether it has any musical value when compared to classical music. This song answers that question, I believe. Rock is a very broad church that can be as beautiful when it's simple as it is when it's complex, Queen were masters of the advanced end of the genre and Innuendo was one of their finest examples.
Yes this is their Kashmir. You must see the performance of this song with Robert Plant at the tribute
Horrible performance 😂
That performance was so bad that Plant requested it was removed from the official concert release.
I've been requesting this song before this Queen series began and I happy it's finally here.
Amy, another band you need to react to is the underrated 70 glam rock band Sweet. They were ahead of their time and influenced many bands, yet are not in the RNR HOF. As for songs: "The Ballroom Blitz", "Fox On The Run" and "Love Is Like Oxygen" (album version).
I love this song, one of my absolute favourite Queen songs. The only fault I can find with it is that it is too short. It should be 50-100% longer!
Yes do give Yes another chance (Close To The Edge is a big ask to absorb at one listen). Roundabout is their most iconic and representative single. But if you want to hear Steve Howe and Jon Anderson at their most accessible and beautifully melodic, you should really do Turn Of The Century.
Always think of this great track as Queen paying homage to their prog rock beginnings. But doing so while acknowledging what they were facing at the time of recording.
Innuendo ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.
You're on Queen's best album ever. Not so much from a musical point of view but from a sentimental point of view. In the sense of 'feeling' what is composed musically. Or rather, musically produce what you feel inside. Previously it was more or less appreciable musical works, here we're talking about something else! This is a SENSATIONAL album... it would take a whole day of videos to describe it. This album is basically very dark as principal colour. The musicality is veri 'greve', i don't know how to says it in english. Recorded between the end of 1989 till the end of 1990 the band find the better solution between the synths, strongly used in this album' and the clearity of the muscal instruments. Instruments are clear but the background is very remastered. The same thing has happened in the recording of 'A day at the reaces' album in 1976 (with different technology obviously, but with the same results). The fact that Freddie stopped with sigaretts is very audible in his vocals, almost not raspy at all except maybe in the 'Delilah' song.. Lyrics are mostly pointed around the slow fall of Soviet Union and about the changes and the impossibility to see clearly the future of humanity. Anyway inside we can easily hear the will of keep on the hope for Freddie about a solution regard his illness condition, but it's not in first stage. There so much to tell about this song.. i will be back later..
Queen the ultimate antidote and antithesis to the 3 minute 'sho-be-do, I love you' pop song!
Stylistically, it's too short to be a "rock opera" unto itself, but it's definitely got the right epic feel - brash, bombastic, and overblown. And we love it all the more for that.
and Queen never produced opera, just operatic parts.
Little rock by a meadow. And let that now be the second name of Roger, only spelled differently Meddows. Although in the '70 they spelled it the same, Meadows.
A truly monumental song...speaking out to the whole of humanity ❤
Interesting when she gets to the flamingo section and said it’s like a “village dance”, got to watch the video!
Flamenco* 😅
@@iris67si sorry, dance not bird. Love spellcheck.
@@AliT0555 😂 I know... Spellcheck obviously knows a bird but not a dance ... 🙃
@@iris67si 🤣
Can't believe we are on to Innuendo but you haven't heard Was It All Worth It from The Miracle?!
Please, please, please: don't leave out March of the Black Queen, together with BoRhap and Innuendo it forms the "hold trinity" for us Queenies. And Mother Love... Show must go on... their best.
You forgot "My fairy queen".
I am happy you like it and that people even now appreciate this Album. 😊
I had bought the Album when I came out, but my musical appreciation was still developing (I was 16) - although i liked it at the time, only years later I truly recognized the geniuses that was Queen. And sadly, Freddy was gone.
Would have made a great comparison to show must go on
Best band ever
Queen 50 series?? Not enough. At least 100.
Tomando en cuenta esta reacción espero que alguna vez Amy reaccione y analice los grandes clásicos de la música en Español (no me refiero al reguetón) sino a grandes como Juan Gabriel, Soda Stereo, Julio Iglesias, Silvio Rodríguez, Violeta Parra, Charly García y muchos otros que la comunidad hispano hablante iría recomendando.
Innuendo was Queens best album since The Works
for me innuendo is apocaliptic
Innuendo was actually inspired by Kashmir, this is why they had Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin sing Innuendo at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992, and he also sang a part of Kashmir during the ballad section. Unfortunately, it got removed from the official release on Plant's request because he messed up the lyrics of Innuendo a lot.
Who thinks #50 will be "No One But You" 😢
that would be great. Such a beautiful song.
With the video.
@@AliT0555 Absolutely. I think Vlad would know that and do hope he closes out the series with it. (Then follow up with a "Deep Cuts" series, lol).
I've said many times, I'd put this against Bohemian Rhapsody anytime.
Omg, skipped 'Was it all worth it' 😭
Yes. We were waiting for it... What a mistake. At least we will have "Innuendo".
@@alexgarciacarrasco5907yes true... I am sure 'My bijou' is included because she said she loves it when she did an interview with 'The daily Doug' guy.
I'm sure she'll get around to that later, just like so many earlier things we skipped like the Prophet song etcetera
They skipped a lot , only 50 is tough.
Would have been better to pick all the singles including double A sides, then their favourite album tracks and ended up with 63 tracks or however many they got to.
Rather than limit it right at the start.
Oh, we are here. It was a great closing moment for Freddie era Queen!
No such thing. No Freddie, no Queen!
@@chelz1972I think that's what's meant here, a great closing moment for Freddie and thus for Queen. You're right that without Freddie there is no Queen, and the living members of the band know and accept this too, but on the other hand I can understand them still wanting to perform their music, Freddie's music, in a live setting, I think he'd have wanted that too.
This song always gives me shivers. Both Freddie's voice and Brian's guitar screams feel like eternity.
Another one whereby I think the video helps somewhat, as the images throughout have some meaning behind them, and according to Freddie's closest friends and family he never actually questioned " why me " they never heard him complain even when in horrendous pain towards the end, he just took the hand he was dealt, and in interviews which are rare, he hated this part of the job, he never thought he was going in his words " make old bones" same with John Lennon and Marc Bolan and I think David Bowie, it's an if some have a feeling their here for a purpose but for a short time, and make the most of life good and bad
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You MUST watch/react to the full 20 minute set of Queen at Live aid in 1985 once you've finished the Queen 50 series
if you like epic-type pieces, you'll probably enjoy 2 instrumentals by rush:
"Jacob's Ladder" and "Camera Eye"
You are missing half of the experience by not watching the video.
Bohemian Rhapsody, Somebody To Love and Innuendo is the three best songs of Queen.
Brian said Steve howe do you do that?
Finally 😊
Freddie Mercury war a fan of Robert Plant he always said that he admire Robert Plant as a musician . Freddie love the song Kashmir by Robert Plant.
2:54 - Montreux ... wait, has Amy done Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple yet? Might be time... and, maybe dig up some of the more detailed accounts of what the inspiration for the song was, because that's an interesting story, as I remember it. :) (And... «The song was honoured in Montreux by a sculpture along the lake shore (right next to the statue of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury on the concrete wall right below the Marché couvert) with the band's name, the song title, and the riff in musical notes». Field trip for y'all??!?)
Wait wait, 27:09 - like, uhh, a fire in the sky??? 🤯 Was this planned to make me think of this? 🤣
Exactly what I was thinking, Kashmir
this album was a final milestone and I still remember the days when it had been released in the year after the iron curtain had collapsed, or to be precise the year after more or less which means iron curtain fell in 1989 and this album had been released in 1991 like Achtung Baby by U2, which shows the relation of U2 and Berlin then cause it is german Achtung not attention .
This album has had 2 lifes, the one discussed during it had been release and the post Mercury years after Freddy had died.
Many things have changed and a lot of those titles that had gotten no or negative attention in those days he was still alive have moved up a lot since then.
And this title was special back then and caused a lot of controversial discussions were about this song like cheap copy of what soever , an arteficial reminder of bohemian rhapysody and what not.
Beyond that as a queen fan it was hard to get familiar with the titles of this particular album, they felt weird, did not really fit, someone wanted whatever other titles like another and I mean new kind of "another bites the dust" but not songs like these ones.
And I have been one of those who did not understand nor was I aware of the final days cause that had kicked me hard as my girl friend back then had recogniced in the days of the grieve i guess november 1991 when it had hit me out of nowhere - and just days later should hit herself even hard when her brother died in a tragic frontal car crash among with 5 others.
Therefore deep and clear memories of those days back then cause in the age of no internet rumors were less and only part of the yellow press which queen fans never believed. The only really weird point was the release of that daffodil song and video where Freddy had played a pantomime to hide his real circumstances he was living in during the recordings.
Any how, the title and the album were received differently, while he was still alive and then afterwards. The album had been received far far better after his death than while he was alive. Hard to understand from 2024 or as a person that has not lived in 1991 or was too young, but that is part of the story of the album and the title that it was not received very well in the beginning or the era before his death .
He wanted to say goodbye with a milestone of his art - and we the audience of that era buying vinyl or CDs were not ready for that from that guy we believed or had learned from
Who wants to live forever ?
even though that title had ended with
Who waits forever anyway?
Just the 2 sides of this album only those can share who had lived when the album had been released and maybe Vlad or his father can share their experience about this weird time those months between it had been released and the out of nowhere message that Freddy had died of aids / hiv even though some weird news and pictures like those with the abanana and daffodil had been released days before his death.
And as always from the hindsight not sure if that part was pure marketing and had nothing to do with queen the band itself cause marketing had worked to sell albums and increase income .
Of cause this is a queen special and also kind of queen tribute and freddy hommage I still have to say like cicero his final phrase
"et cetereo carthago delendam esset " (latin for I still believe Carthago has to be destroyed) that you should look for "U2 in their Berlin years aka the song ONE" which closes a huge and important circle many americans and europeans will have missed to recognise. The importance of the island Berlin during the cold war and support by british rock musicians to tour to Berlin.
Imagine 2024 and let us say Taylor swift would visit Kiev to give a free concert for the people in the Ukraine ?
And that has happened over and over again even though missed by the public in the world or who was aware of a free concert in front of the BERLIN REICHSTAG by Barclay James Harvest in front of 120.000 fans in the west and direct on the Berlin Wall that the east berlin citizens could listen as well. That was the 30th of August 1980 and many years before Bruce Springsteen did not the same but walked in their steps. Same for David Bowie and many others - or who knows that the only "smash hit" from MARILLION had been recorded in Berlin cause they were back in the 80s in Berlin due to the lead singer falling in love with a german woman, while the song is about a Kay leigh.
And therefore have a look for the song ONE by U2 recorded in the same studio like before David Bowie and so many others had done: Hansa Studios Berlin next to the Berlin war on the future front line that suddenly had been erased.
And ONE by U2 has also become iconic in the moment when this title has been elevated to the peerage by Johnny Cash who had done a cover in the very last days of his life. One had closed the circle for all of these stories, so you might ask Vlad about his memories or even rather his father - who will also have different memories and might even more remember Scorpions hit wind of change which had been quite popular in eastern europe big then .
I did not like Innuendo when it had been released, I was disappointed like I had been disappointed before with the release of The Miracle and most of its tunes, but over the years I learned to receive them differently from the perspective of an artist who was aware of his death and proces of dying who wanted to leave a kind of message and his legacy no average guy had been aware of. It felt like another fancy album, artist who plays for whatever but not for his fans even though he was pretty aware of the limited time and days he had.
good bye and you might consider visiting the heart of the 80 and 90s rock where all came together : BERLIN