Innuendo BTT experience

@ggo1: Interesting points of view indeed. All in all, it comes down to conventions, many of which are ultimately arbitrary. Based on what you suggest, would you consider 27th October 1974 the start of the 'Opera' sessions? Keep in mind they didn't 'write' the National Anthem, but they did record it after the 'Sheer Heart Attack' album had been finished and sent to America to be mastered. On the other hand, they recorded it as a taped outro, not necessarily with the intention of having it on a (then hypothetical) fourth album.

In terms of properly going to the studio to work on a new album, November 1989 is accurate for 'Innuendo' (despite some older things being eventually revisited later on).

'Made in Heaven' is another tricky one, as the January 1991 stuff they recorded were initially thought to be B-Sides for the singles, but then they allegedly liked them so much they decided to save them for an album.

Could it also be that some tracks which were recorded for Another Miracle ended up on Innuendo. Or is this far stretching?


Tom

What is "ANother Miracle"??

all gods people was meant for barcelona album. the original instrumental idea was made into the song we get on innuendo

[QUOTE] [b]runner_70 wrote:[/b]

What is "ANother Miracle"??[/QUOTE]

An urban legend. One of the letters one of the band members wrote to the fan club mentioned they were trying to produce 'another Miracle' (most likely referring to the fact they were doing another album probably in the same vein) and some people mistook it to mean they were calling the album 'Another Miracle'.

[QUOTE] [b]dudley-fufkin 7834 wrote:[/b]

all gods people was meant for barcelona album.[/QUOTE]

No, it was not.

Thank you Sebastian, for clarifiyng that up. I always suspect it wat an 'urban legend'. It was indeed something I have read in one of the Queen Magazines. But there is a little truth in the legend though? If I'm not mistaken, Another Miracle was 'ready' for release, this could be an album with the B-sides and the extended versions? Or am I again wrong, if so I do apologize, must be my age then, in other words my memory is playing tricks on me ;-)


Tom

I'm happy to stand corrected if there's a single piece of evidence confirming they were planning to name the album that way.

From the Winter 1989 fanclub magazine... a small blurb about "Alternative Miracle"

Thank you Adam! So that proves - for me it does - that there was a little project as an alternative Miracle.


Tom

[QUOTE] [b]TomP63 wrote:[/b]

Thank you Adam! So that proves - for me it does - that there was a little project as an alternative Miracle. [/QUOTE]

That's not what I'm disputing... I'm disputing that the album was gonna be titled that way. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. It wouldn't be the first time that magazine gets it wrong ... but also, it wouldn't be the first time that magazine gets it right.

Sebastian, true, but that was not my first point. I knew that I heard and read many years ago about the so-called Another Miracle. But I'm talking about a possible release which could happen thirty years ago. My first question to you or for that matter anyone, could it be possible that some tracks, left over of the Miracle sessions were used on Innuendo. Well, as you has written, that's it is not the case, then I thought about the Another Miracle. Which also never happend. But the snippet Adam has posted, is for me a little prove, that my memory is not playing tricks on me. In all fairness, how many interessing projects were postponned, cancelled, or never happend, this over a period of thirty years. Remember the On Air album? This is a release from 2016, but announced in 1995........

Tom

We're aware of at least one 'Miracle'-era song which wound on up 'Innuendo', though, and it's precisely 'All Imaginary Skydaddy's People'. It was first for a solo project by Frederick but said solo project was shelved when 'Barcelona' happened. Then, they tried it out for 'The Miracle' and then finally for 'Innuendo'.

Actually, there WERE plans for an 'Alternative Miracle' album - called precisely THAT. When I contacted Kevin Metcalfe for an official query about the first Queen remasters he told me he was about to do the mastering for that album at that time (pre-November 1990). There's also some inside-memo from Capitol Records about this.

And 'Africa By Night' which is basically the middle eight from 'All God's People' was indeed penned during the Barcelona sessions - it was probably never contemplated for the album, though.

[QUOTE] [b]Wilki Amieva wrote:[/b]

Actually, there WERE plans for an 'Alternative Miracle' album - called precisely THAT. When I contacted Kevin Metcalfe for an official query about the first Queen remasters he told me he was about to do the mastering for that album at that time (pre-November 1990). There's also some inside-memo from Capitol Records about this.[/QUOTE]

In which case, I stand corrected. Thanks.

[QUOTE] [b]Wilki Amieva wrote:[/b]

And 'Africa By Night' which is basically the middle eight from 'All God's People' was indeed penned during the Barcelona sessions - it was probably never contemplated for the album, though.[/QUOTE]

According to the man who co-wrote it, it was not: it was penned *before* the 'Barcelona' sessions - it was finished off and released later on, though. Unless, of course, you're merely talking about the middle-eight.