... and: the cover from Greatest Hits 3 wasn`t from One Vision. The photo of Brian, Roger and John on the cover was from the Miracle photo sessions.
How do you figure? Freddie still has the full mustache in that photo, and he'd shaved it off by the time The Miracle was made.
My god you're an idiot. Just because all 4 of them were on the cover doesn't mean that all of their photos were from the same year.
If you've seen the cover for the single "I Want It All" (which can be found on Ron Buczko's website, http://www.queenpicturehall.com/ under the singles section), you'll see that the poses of Brian, Roger and John are the same, just slightly different because those aren't the exact same pictures used for the IWIA cover, just alternate takes from the same photo shoot.
And they obviously used a program like PhotoShop or something to edit the cover (which I like btw.), so it didn't obviously use a photo of Freddie from 1989, but rather 1986.
I should have thought about Photoshop... good match, after all.
But that said, watch the name calling, please. I was only six when the single was released, and it may not have been released at all where I lived, so there's no way I COULD have seen the cover in any case (nor am I inclined to go out of my way to look for pictures of covers, frankly), so how COULD I have known what it looked like?? The only reference I have is the pictures in GVH2 and Classic Queen, and those poses and the shots for the Miracle cover before they were combined.