Album - Innuendo

Innuendo was the fourteenth studio album by Queen, released in 1991. It was the last album to be composed entirely of new material and the final studio album to be released in Freddie Mercury's lifetime. It reached #1 in the United Kingdom album charts for two consecutive weeks, as well as in the Netherlands (four weeks), Switzerland (eight weeks) and Italy (three weeks). The album was released in the United States one day after it was released in Britain, and became the first Queen album to go Gold in the US since The Works in 1984.

The album was recorded from early 1989 to late 1990, only two years after Freddy Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS (which was kept secret and not publicised at the time). The band and producers were aiming for a November or December release date in order to catch the crucial Christmas market, but Mercury's declining health meant that the release of the album did not take place until January 1991. Stylistically, Innuendo is in some sense a return to Queen's roots. It features a harder rock sound, complex musical composition (title track), psychedelic effects (I'm Going Slightly Mad), and Freddy Mercury's vocals range over four octaves. Mercury died ten months after the albums release.

Current sales estimates of the album stand at around 11 million copies.