I've always wondered why the song was called Innuendo (apart from the 1 word) and the album likewise:
Best I can come up with is that latterly Freddie's choices (not compositions) had been hints at stuff, some the obvious, some perhaps unrelated ...
"The Great Pretender"
"In My Defence"
"The Miracle"
"Innuendo"
And the song follows the album name more or less. (Rather than the other way around.)
Anyone got better ideas?
Yes, but Freddie was fond of the "look over there!" diversionary tactic. :-) And, I think, quite reasonably so. (Let's not start another debate on how well he handled his illness - unless we absolutely must.)
Thanks, Martin
funny thread!
---but in keeping with the topic and staying off humor.
... Good question.
maybe because it's a suggestion of an ending. That would be MY first guess.
"...keep on trying."
"whatever will be will be"
"...one wave short of a shipwreck, not top billing"
father to son style theme "one day you'll be a sergeant major, oh you'll be so proud"
"oh what a beautiful world... this is the life for me"
"the bad things in life were so few"
"show must go on"
etc.
although it's been said that Innuendo emerged early on in the stages of composition. Is there anything to suggest that the LYRICS were completed afterward or ....?
i think that at subconcious level they probably wanted to hint all those meanings.
Most of the Queen catalogue shows what they had said before, that they were into the music more than the lyrics with some hidden meanings.
However The Miracle and Innuendo clearly change this trend, and the lyrics seem to be more deep and in some cases a mirror reflection of what was going on in their lives during those years.
matt z wrote:
although it's been said that Innuendo emerged early on in the stages of composition. Is there anything to suggest that the LYRICS were completed afterward or ....?
My understanding was that they had a primitive version recorded in 1989, I could be wrong though.
jones904 wrote:
"Innuendo"
get a mirror and look at the word on the album cover
as per sgt pepper