From Queenpedia.com
In 1993, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon returned to Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland, to work on finishing the tracks they had begun with Freddie Mercury during the early part of 1991. The resulting album, Made In Heaven, was the final chapter in the band's legacy with Freddie, and featured polished versions of songs they had never managed to finish before - some came from as far back as sessions for The Game sessions in 1980, and two tracks were carefully reworked, almost unrecognisable versions of songs Freddie originally recorded for his Mr. Bad Guy solo album. Another, Heaven For Everyone, started life as a song by Roger's solo project The Cross, on which Freddie had sung a guest vocal - and Queen's reworked version became the first single from the Made In Heaven project. Unfortunately, Freddie's absence meant that filming videos for any single release from the album was somewhat difficult, until someone within the Queen camp came up with a near perfect solution. Brian: "I can't actually remember where the idea came from originally, but it emerged that the BFI were very short of funds to enable some of their young directors to get started. We thought this would solve many problems with one stroke. We'll give them some money, they can figure out the most deserving cause to give it to and they can make whatever videos they like for the music." This was an unusual situation for Queen to be in - for the first time they were completely hands off, allowing the young directors and the BFI to decide how to represent their music. The result was eight very different short films which used songs from the Made In Heaven album as their starting point and soundtrack, and could be shown the world over to promote the album. The results were critically acclaimed, even if Queen fans were somewhat unresponsive, and two of the films ended up becoming the official promotional videos for the single releases of the songs they represented. Now available on vhs and dvd, it is best to leave evaluation to the willing individual, but the details below are a brief summary of each piece in turn. Tracklist
Creditscredits Chartscharts Reviewsreviews Sleeves
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
