Golden Salmon's Queen: The Innuendo Collection

QUEEN

THE INNUENDO COLLECTION

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Originally shared on June 9th, 2018 - updated on June 3rd, 2020

Hello again! This is an unplanned by-product that I came up with while creating “Queen: The
Unusual Anthology”. Instead of shoehorning a few more tracks into the big share, I thought I’d
rather make a mostly complete (but not exhaustive) Innuendo collection, since there’s
interesting enough material in here to make a decent compilation.

Purposefully not included in this collection:

- Album tracks (neither CD nor vinyl edits)

- 2011 remaster bonus tracks
- Some minor or straight edits / mixes (from Greatest Hits albums and other sources)

TRACKLIST
01 Innuendo (video version) (48 kHz)
02 Innuendo (explosive version)
03 Innuendo (1989 session) (48 kHz)
04 I'm Going Slightly Mad (karaoke version) (48 kHz)
05 I'm Going Slightly Mad (The eYe instrumental edit)
06 I'm Going Slightly Mad (Totally Bonkers version - fan club message)
07 Headlong (extended video version) (48 kHz)
08 Headlong (The eYe instrumental version)
09 Headlong (Canadian CHR edit)
10 Headlong (Radio Edit)
11 Headlong (demo, Freddie and Brian vocals, high quality)
12 Headlong (Brian plays along, 1991-06-04 San José‚ KEWB radio - restored)
13 I Can't Live With You (Malouf Remix)
14 I Can't Live With You (Malouf Remix edit)
15 I Can't Live With You (The eYe instrumental version)
16 ''I Can't Live Without You'' (Brian plays along, 1991-05-29 Philadelphia radio - restored) *
17 Don't Try So Hard (early version) (48 kHz)
18 Ride The Wild Wind (The eYe instrumental version)
19 All God's People (Argentinian vinyl edit - from la_ultra_zona) *
20 All God's People (preview mix)
21 These Are The Days Of Our Lives (karaoke version) (48 kHz)
22 These Are The Days Of Our Lives (radio edit)
23 Delilah (alternate take, vocal overdubs, no guitars, high quality)
24 The Hitman (The eYe instrumental version 1)
25 The Hitman (The eYe instrumental version 2)
26 Bijou (live 2008-09-12 Kharkiv, Ukraine)
27 The Show Must Go On (karaoke version) (48 kHz)
28 The Show Must Go On (The eYe instrumental version)

* - undocumented recordings

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UNRELEASED TRACKS
01 Affairs (audience recording)
02 Grand Dame (audience recording)
03 My Secret Fantasy (audience convention recording)
04 My Secret Fantasy (slightly cut intro, rough transfer)
05 My Secret Fantasy (complete, equalized, best quality)
06 Robbery (audience convention recording)
07 Robbery (rough transfer)
08 Robbery (correct speed, equalized, best quality)
09 Self Made Man (convention audience recording, cut outro) (4:18) *
10 Self Made Man (cut intro, full outro, rough transfer - from Ale Solan) (4:24) *
11 Self Made Man (nearly complete, outro fades out early, equalized, best quality) (4:46) *

* All “Self Made Man” files feature significant differences, which aren't properly documented
anywhere. I’ve included waveform and spectrogram comparisons (all tracks lined up with
added silence) so that you can see the differences among them. The convention recording
misses most of the outro. The rough recording misses most of the intro but features a full
volume outro that’s lost in the otherwise complete, best quality equalized source. A widely
spread 4:38 recording also exists, but it's a sort of fake version with an outro excerpt merged
with the cut intro, as if it was an attempt to restore what's missing.

HINTS OF INNUENDO
(CD QUALITY)
01 All God's People
02 The Show Must Go On
03 Innuendo
04 Ride The Wild Wind
05 Bijou
06 Headlong (early version, no backing vocals)
07 I'm Going Slightly Mad
08 I Can't Live With You
09 These Are The Days Of Our Lives
10 Don't Try So Hard
11 The Hitman (early version, Brian vocals)
12 Delilah (early version, different guitars) *

Note: the best quality source I’ve ever heard for these tracks! Pretty much perfect!

* - “Delilah” (early version) is not an edit of the alternate take (track 23 in the main tracklist).
This is actually a different recording.

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EXTRA
01 Innuendo (Freddie Mercury + WWRY London cast, 2003)
02 Innuendo (cover by Scanner)
03 Headlong (reversed ending)
04 The Show Must Go On (multitrack mix - no keyboards) (48 kHz)
05 The Show Must Go On (multitrack mix - no keyboards, instrumental) (48 kHz)
06 Lost Opportunity (Brian May improvisation excerpt, 1995-09-22 Zucchero's Birthday Party)
(48 kHz)
07 Queen Talks (non-album track)
08 Self Made Man (Irish Club Mix)
09 The Show Must Go On (Remember fan mix)
10 “My Bijou” - Brian May microconcert no. 13 (2020-04-05) (48 kHz)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra covers

01 RPO - Innuendo (1996)

02 RPO - These Are The Days Of Our Lives (2016)
03 RPO - The Show Must Go On (2016)

'Queen For An Hour' interview with Mike Read (1989-05-25 BBC Radio 1)

The “Queen Talks” track is mostly based on this recording. This is the full unedited version,
unlike the one featured in the recent “Queen On Air” album.

The Innuendo MIDI collection (18 files)

I might as well throw these in here 

The Show Must Go On - stems (15 files)

The next best thing to a multitrack available from the Innuendo album.

Unofficial karaoke versions (2 tracks with graphics)

Pretty curious thing!

Dedicated to Sofía 🐧

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