Queen in the 90s

#### February 12, 1991 (US): *News of the World*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "We Will Rock You (1991 Bonus Remix Ruined By Rick Rubin)".

#### March 5, 1991 (US): *Sheer Heart Attack*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "Stone Cold Crazy (1991 Bonus Remix By Michael Wagener)".

#### March 5, 1991 (US): *A Day at the Races*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "Tie Your Mother Down (1991 Bonus Remix By Matt Wallace)" and "Somebody to Love (1991 Bonus Remix By Randy Badazz)".

#### March 5, 1991 (US): *Hot Space*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "Body Language (1991 Bonus Remix by Susan Rogers)"

#### June 17, 1991 (US): *Jazz*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "Fat Bottomed Girls (1991 Bonus Remix by Brian Malouf" and "Bicycle Race (1991 Bonus Remix by Junior Vasquez)".

#### June 17, 1991 (US): *The Game*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "Dragon Attack (1991 Bonus Remix by RAK & Jack Benson)".

#### June 17, 1991: *A Kind of Magic*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "Forever" and "One Vision (Extended Vision)".

#### June 18, 1991 (US): *Queen*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "Mad the Swine (previously unreleased)", "Keep Yourself Alive (Long Lost Re-take)" and "Liar (1991 Bonus Remix by John Luongo & Gary Hellman)".

#### September 3, 1991 (US): *A Night at the Opera*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "I'm in Love With My Car (1991 Bonus Remix by Mike Shipley)" and "You're My Best Friend (1991 Bonus Remix by Matt Wallace)".

#### September 3, 1991 (US): *Flash Gordon*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "Flash's Theme (1991 Bonus Remix by Mista Lawnge, 9.5)".

#### October 22, 1991 (US): *Queen II*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "See What a Fool I've Been", "Ogre Battle (1991 Bonus Remix by Nick Sansano)" and "Seven Seas of Rhye (1991 Bonus Remix by Freddy Bastone)".

#### October 22, 1991: *The Miracle*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "The Invisible Man (12" Version)" and "Scandal (12" Mix)".

#### October 28, 1991: *Greatest Hits II*

* UK #1, 13x Platinum

The compilation contains most of Queen's hits from 1981 to 1991. It was released less than a month before the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury and was the last Queen release of any kind while he was still alive. It was later made available in the United States in two box sets: Greatest Hits I & II and The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III.

A companion video release entitled Greatest Flix II was released at the same time, but is currently out of print. Most of the videos are now available on the DVD Greatest Video Hits 2 with the exception of the videos from the 1991 Innuendo album.

The singles "Body Language", "Back Chat", "Las Palabras de Amor", "Thank God It's Christmas", "Princes of the Universe" and "Scandal" were omitted for this release.

Listen to *Greatest Hits II* on Deezer.

#### November 25, 1991: "Driven by You" by Brian May

Besides the original album/single version, there are three other known studio versions of ***"Driven by You"***. One was used in Ford car commercials. The second is an instrumental remix of the song, called Driven by You Two. The other known version of this song has a new drum track from Cozy Powell as a bonus track on the US release of Back to the Light.

* UK #6
* From *Back to the Light* (1992)

#### November 26, 1991 (US): *The Works*

The 1991 Hollywood Records re-release featured "I Go Crazy", "Radio Ga Ga (Extended Version)" and I Want to Break Free (Extended Mix)".

### 1992

#### November 9, 1992: "Back to the Light" by Brian May

* UK #19
* From *Back to the Light* (1992)

#### November 16, 1992: *The Freddie Mercury Album*

***The Freddie Mercury Album*** (The Great Pretender in the US, released November 24, 1992) is a posthumous solo project with material from Queen frontman and vocalist Freddie Mercury released to observe the anniversary of his death. The album is mainly made up of remixes from his past releases, as well as the original versions of "Barcelona", "Love Kills", "Exercises in Free Love", and "The Great Pretender".

The US album differs from its UK counterpart (aside from a slightly different running order) by replacing the original versions of "The Great Pretender" and "Love Kills" with remixes, featuring a slightly altered ending of the "Mr. Bad Guy" remix, and replacing "Barcelona" with a remix of "My Love Is Dangerous".

* UK #4, 2x Platinum
* Listen to a selection of tracks from *The Freddie Mercury Album* (Prof Nostalgia playlist) on Deezer.

#### November 30, 1992: "In My Defence" by Freddie Mercury

***"In My Defence"*** was from the 1986 musical Time by Dave Clark and featured on the Time concept album. The song was not a hit during Mercury's lifetime but was released posthumously.

During the musical, Mercury performed the song as a duet with Cliff Richard; this was last time Mercury sang live in concert; his last performance would be Barcelona in 1988 with Montserrat Caballé, but this performance was lip-synced.

The music video, made after Mercury's death in 1991, was directed by Rudi Dolezal and was a montage featuring outtakes of past music videos, numerous private shots, as well as highlights of Mercury's career.

* UK #8

### 1994

#### September 5, 1994: *Happiness?* by Roger Taylor

Writing for ***Happiness?*** spanned way before initial recording in 1993. Taylor, like his other band mates, were mourning the death of lead singer, Freddie Mercury. Recording mostly took place in his home studio over the final months of 1993 to the beginning of 1994. Halfway through recording, Taylor had collaborated with Japanese musician, Yoshiki. The result of the collaboration was the track "Foreign Sand".

* Listen to Happiness? on Deezer.

### 1995

#### October 23, 1995: "Heaven for Everyone"

***"Heaven for Everyone"*** is a song written by Roger Taylor. It appeared originally in his band's, The Cross, album Shove It, with Freddie Mercury as a guest vocalist. It was reworked with Queen's music and released as the first single from Made in Heaven (1995). The music video contains footage of Georges Méliès seminal 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon.

The lead vocal Mercury recorded in 1987 was given a new backing track and new backing vocals. A significant difference between The Cross versions and the Queen version is that there's no spoken introduction, refrain or "end" as done by Taylor on the original.

* UK #2, Silver
* From *Made in Heaven* (1995)

#### November 6, 1995: *Made in Heaven*

***Made in Heaven*** is the fifteenth and final studio album by the British rock band Queen, released by Parlophone Records in the United Kingdom and by Hollywood Records in the United States. After Freddie Mercury's death, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor, and bass guitarist John Deacon worked with vocal and piano parts that Mercury recorded before his death, adding fresh instrumentation to the recordings. Both stages of recording, before and after Mercury's death, were completed at the band's studio in Montreux, Switzerland. The album became a worldwide success, especially in Europe, selling over 5 million copies there, and more than 7.5 million around the world.

* UK #1, 4x Platinum; US #58, Gold
* Listen to *Made in Heaven* on Deezer

#### November 13, 1995: *Ultimate Queen*

***Ultimate Queen*** is a boxed set collection by the English Hard rock band Queen. It contains all of their albums, in litho-printed picture CD form, identifiable by a gold ring around the outside.

#### December 11, 1995: "A Winter's Tale"

***"A Winter's Tale"*** was written after the Innuendo sessions, inspired as Mercury was staring out the windows of his hospital, at Lake Geneva. The song has a psychedelic, dreamy feel, and describes what Mercury saw outside the windows.

* UK #6
* From *Made in Heaven* (1995)

### 1996

#### February 26, 1996: "Too Much Love Will Kill You"

In 1995, the remaining members of Queen elected to include the original recording of ***"Too Much Love Will Kill You"***, with Mercury on vocals, on the Made in Heaven album, released four years after Mercury's death. Intended to be on The Miracle, Brian May recorded a version for his Back to Light (1992) album. Queen's version is a power ballad characteristic of the late 1980s time period in which it was recorded (1988), with heavy use of keyboards and electric guitar. Although it failed to duplicate the chart success of May's solo version, Queen's version of the song has since come to be regarded as the definitive version, after being awarded "Best Song Musically and Lyrically" at the 1997 Novello Awards (May said later that if there was one song that he would have wanted to win an award for, it was this one), and being included on Queen's Greatest Hits III.

* UK #15
* From *Made in Heaven* (1995)

#### June 17, 1996: "Let Me Live"

Mercury, Taylor and May share lead vocals, on ***"Let Me Live"***, with Mercury singing the first verse, Taylor singing the second verse & bridge, and May singing the last verse. During the choruses, all of the band members sing (except for John Deacon), as well as a background choir, giving it a gospel sound reminiscent of the band's 1976 single "Somebody to Love".

* UK #9
* From M*ade in Heaven* (1995)

#### November 18, 1996: "You Don't Fool Me"

***"You Don't Fool Me"*** is one of the few which were actually written and recorded after the Innuendo sessions, and was written and composed by the band, under David Richards' supervision. It was a worldwide hit and reached the peak of the single charts in Italy.

* UK #17
* From *Made in Heaven* (1995)

### 1997

#### November 3, 1997: *Queen Rocks*

***Queen Rocks*** is a selection of songs from Queen's heavier side. It also contained one new track, "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)", which is a gentle ballad. This song began life as a track for Brian May's solo album Another World (1998); the remaining members chose to record it as a bookend for their career as Queen. It was the last original studio recording from the 1990s featuring Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon and one of very few Queen recordings without the lead singer Freddie Mercury (other examples being "Good Company" and "Sleeping on the Sidewalk").

The album is unique to the Queen catalogue, as it deliberately does not follow the standard "greatest hits" collection format. Some hits are present ("We Will Rock You", "I Want It All" and "Fat Bottomed Girls"), while other tracks included were never released as singles anywhere ("Put Out the Fire", "Tear It Up" and "Sheer Heart Attack"). The album also contains a remake of "I Can't Live With You", with a much louder and heavier guitar and more aggressive drumming.

* UK #7, Platinum
* Listen to *Queen Rocks* (Prof Nostalgia playlist) on Deezer.

### 1998

#### January 5, 1998: "No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young)"/"We Will Rock You [The Rick Rubin 'Ruined' Remix]"

* UK #13
* From *Queen Rocks* (1997)

#### November 14, 1998: "Another One Bites the Dust (Small Soldiers Remix)" by Queen/Wyclef Jean, featuring Pras & Free

American rapper Wyclef Jean covered and remixed ***"Another One Bites the Dust"*** for the film Small Soldiers. His version also features rap verses from Pras Michel and Free, and music by Queen.

* UK #5