INNUENDO

The last album Queen released while Freddie Mercury was alive but at the time severely affected by AIDS, and making superhuman efforts to finish the recording of his parts. Still, Mercury was not going to allow illness to stop him from completing Innuendo.

And they leave us the best work of the band since the distant A Day at The Races, published 15 years ago. Lots of water ran under the bridge in Queen's musical adventures, with an evolution towards more commercial and digestible styles, the loss of the staunch fans of the early times, and an expansion to the global market that seems unstoppable even until today.

Innuendo was the return to the sources, it seems that after going around the world several times the trip ended, and it was time to return home to meet his first affections. It is true, 20 years later they could no longer claim the same results, everything evolves, but the spirit and soul were there, intact.

Pieces like the progressive, dense and powerful Innuendo, with the collaboration of Steve Howe on flamenco guitars, the extremely heartfelt These Are the Days of Our Lives, the jewel not sufficiently valued that Bijou is, and the heartbreaking Show Must Go On for close the album, all of them return us to the best Queen.There is also room for its rock side with the dynamics "Headlong", I Can't Live With You, Ride the Wild Wind, and Hitman. The band even had the pleasure of making Delilah, a tribute to Mercury's favorite pets, the cats.

Innuendo is one of the best works of Queen, although it is one step below his masterpieces Queen II and A Night at The Opera. It confirms that Queen is one of the leading rock groups of all time, and Freddie Mercury one of its most emblematic figures.