After the death of Freddie Mercury, another album was released: Heaven For Everyone.
Mercury’s voice and piano were posthumously processed into new songs and Heaven For Everyone was the first result. It resulted in the tenth top 3 hit successfully scored by a British band in our country.
The origins of Heaven For Everyone lies in 1988 with the song The Cross. It was drummer Roger Taylor’s project. There are several versions of Heaven For Everyone that all have one thing in common: Roger and Freddie take care of the vocals. The first recording is said to have been made at the time of work on the album A Kind Of Magic, but was not completed at the time. Subsequent versions appeared in the period around the recording of the 1988 album Shove It, released by The Cross. The recordings on that album had Freddie in the lead role in vocals where the UK-released version of the single Roger took the role. This single was not released anywhere else.
For the single Queen, the producers used old records. Most of Freddie is from Montreux where he has owned the studio since 1978. After Freddie’s death, the studio also worked on the album Made In Heaven. The cover shows the silhouette of Mercury which can be found as a statue in Montreux.
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