http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDUmT3wm-0A Released as a single in November 1991, the video for this song served as a final "farewell" opportunity for Mercury to address his fans. Extremely ill and having lost an incredible amount of weight in his final months, Mercury recorded the video with heavy light effects, several layers of make-up and in black and white. Taking heavy medication and in pain throughout, the video was recorded privately as both Brian May and Roger Taylor were in the US on a promotional tour to support the 'Innuendo' album release in the United States and the bands signing of a new deal with Hollywood Records. Rumours circulated after Mercury's death about the possibilities of Hollywood Records being legitimately entitled to sue Queen on breach of contract especially for not disclosing Mercury's prior health concerns before taking a massive advance. As it happens, Hollywood Records did not take legal action, being entitled to release the entire Queen back-catalog in America (the first major re-release of some of those albums in almost two decades), and subsequently a deal in Europe, plus a merger of Hollywood with Universal/Disney meant that those original Hollywood Records pressings are now something of a collector's item. For example in 1992 the album 'Classic Queen' was released with an almost-identical cover to 'Greatest Hits 2'. The album features a number of bonus tracks and omits some of Queen's hits from that period; most notably 'I Want To Break Free' because of the fury the track's video caused on MTV television.
First studied Journalism in Ireland in 2003, returning to Sunderland University on the tenth anniversary of my first studies in the subject to continue towards an MA. Interested in all sorts including WWE, Music, Film, TV and Games. Has travelled around a bit to places like California, Ontario and Mexico and plans to do more of the same soon again.
Recently I've been writing pieces on my favourite topics which have included obscure theme music from nostalgic shows, Guns N' Roses and a few other surprises I'll be happy to share in time!