What If Mr Bad Guy Got Canned?

Mr.QueenFan wrote:

Martin Packer wrote:

We're told Freddie was getting bored of making Mr Bad Guy towards the end.

How would things have gone if he'd canned it and offered the songs to the band?

(And I already know Made In Heaven would've been called something else.) :-)

Just to clarify one small detail. I don´t think Freddie was bored of making Mr Bad Guy. He was exausted because he was working with Queen in between both projects. Just listen to the first minute or so of this 1985 interview where Freddie explains it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P17v8MZWEw0

By the way, what would "Made in Heaven" be called?

I enjoyed listening to that interview. Thanks for posting it Mr.QueenFan.

Freddie liked the word "ingredients".

I've always found 'Let's Turn It On' to be a similar type track to 'Party' - the feel, and the verse harmonies come from the same stable.

I agree with the previous post about Freddie setting 'Made In Heaven' in a ludicrous key so that he is struggling throughout a lot of it (particularly the 'that's what everybody says...' sections).

As with most comments here, the production and sound of the album is the weakest point - not very good drum machines and dated synths really don't help. The fact that some of the guitar solos are purposely imitating Brian really is poor too.

To be honest, I quite like when Freddie sounds a bit strained. Sounds more powerful to me. It depends on the song and the way he sings though. So I like his performance on Made In Heaven or One Year Of Love. Of course, it doesn't sound too pleasing when his voice is shot or just going out, but that probably never happened to him all that often in a studio setting anyway.