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June 1989 - Queen with Platinum BPI (British Phonographic Industry) UK Awards for 'The Miracle' album
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June 1989 - Queen with Platinum BPI (British Phonographic Industry) UK Awards for 'The Miracle' album
June 19th, 1989 - Queen Story!
Queen released ‘Breakthru’ bw ‘Stealin’’ in the UK
Taken from 'The Miracle' album, thirteenth studio album released in May 1989
🔸"It's the prime example what we were talking about before, I mean, the track 'Breakthru' sort of stemmed from Roger, really, it's basically his track. But the sort of a capella vocal bit in front was from someone else, as we've said: we have 30 tracks, and that was a little piece that I thought was quite good, and I didn't want it to go amiss, and I just said, 'Oh, well, we’ll just put it in front of "Breakthru".' It’s basically another song, sort of seem to go away quite nicely, so, we just snipped it."
- Freddie Mercury, interview with Mike Read, BBC Radio One, 29/05/1989
🔸"Breakthru" is two songs joined. "A New Life Is Born," an unreleased song written by Freddie Mercury is lhe slow vocal harmony during the first half minute was originally . The remainder of the song is written by Roger Taylor, with contributions from the rest of the band
- 'Stealin' (b-side) written by Freddie Mercury
📸 Pic: June 1989 - Queen photo session of promotional video "Breakthru" (from the album 'The Miracle')
👉 ‘Breakthru’ promotional video; director The Torpedo Twins; Filming Location Nene Valley Railway, Cambridgeshire, UK
Today, on November 23rd, 1989 - Queen Story!
'The Miracle' promotional video, directed by the Torpedo Twins (Do.Ro.) and filmed at Elstree Studios
👉 Freddie Mercury had the idea of finding four young "lookalikes" of the band
👉 In the photo with Freddie Mercury there is Ross McCall
👉 Ross McCall (13 January 1976) is a Scottish actor known for his role as T-5 Joseph Liebgott in the 2001 HBO, miniseries 'Band of Brothers', and as Matthew Keller in the 'White Collar'
Today, on April 22nd, 1989 - Queen Story!
Queen filmed promo video for “I Want It All” at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, UK, director David Mallet
🔸Roger Taylor: Yes, it is our first studio album since 1986, I think that the reason for, for the delay, no, not the delay, for the long wait in between was that we wanted to sort of go away, and just recharge our batteries, quite logical really, and er, and just sort of generate some, some new energy and enthusiasm for, for being Queen
John Deacon: After we did the, the tour in 1986, which was a very big European tour, we were all absolutely exhausted, and shattered, and basically we didn't want to really work together or see each other for a while
Roger Taylor: To get into the whole cycle of er, just making an album, then going on tour, then coming back home and making an album again, we wanted to get out of that
Brian May: We said right, we'll take a little break, we're not, we're not going to split up, but we just er, we need some space for ourselves, and when the time is right, we'll make the album, rather than, you know, somebody says you've got to make one so we make one, so we waited, and we did some, did various other things, you know, Freddie and Roger both did solo projects, and I'm half way through one, and did a lot of producing
John Deacon: That took at least a year to a year and a half, and then towards the end of that second year, er, we sort of met up, and Freddie suggested, I think it was Freddie, perhaps we'd try a little time in the studio
Roger Taylor: So we went into the studio, saw what it was like, and we enjoyed it very much, and we still didn't have any material, so then we decided to go in for the long, for a long, longer time
John Deacon: You know, the third year was spent making the album, so the, in a way it was a two year gap to us, rather than three years, and er, and what was the, I've forgotten the second part of the question already
Interviewer: Did it help you to return to the studios feeling refreshed?
John Deacon: Yes (laughter) yes
The first few weeks of the recording we did a lot of live, er, material, a lot of songs um, ideas came up, some jamming, we had a few ideas that were already prepared, er, 'I Want It All' was one of the, one of the few songs that was actually, written before we went in
- From 'The Miracle' Interviews
Various and separate interviews recorded with Brian, Roger and John on the set of the 'Breakthru' promotional video, May 1989
👉"We were heading into the period where we decided to share the credit for all the songs, and John has said that [the song] was pretty much a finished song when we went into the studios – that's true, it was just this riff that I was obsessed with for months. The actual title was a favorite phrase of Anita's, a very ambitious girl: 'I want it all, and I want it now '... We were never able to perform this song live. It would have become something of the staple core of the Queen show, I'm sure, very participatory. It was designed for the audience to sing along to, very anthemic."
- Brian May, interview 2003, from Greatest Video Hits 2
"He never asked for sympathy from anyone else.
He was a very strong person and always liked to be in control of his own destiny.
He knew that if he did announce it his life would become a circus and he would be prevented from going about his business, which was making music.
He wanted it to be business as usual until the end.
There was no drama, no tears in his eyes.
He was incredibly self-contained"
- Brian May
Pic: June 1989, Nene Valley Railway, Cambridgeshire, UK - Freddie Mercury during the shoot to 'Breakthru' promo video
📸 Photographer © Richard Young
July 26th, 1989 - Queen Story!
Pinewood studios, London, UK - Queen filmed video for 'The Invisible Man' from 'The Miracle' album. Directed by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher (Do.Ro). During video for the Roger Taylor's 40th birthday, a large birthday cake was wheeled
➡ The teenage in this Promo Video, as future Eastenders star Daniella Westbrook
Today, on October 9th, 1989 - Queen Story!
‘Scandal’ / ‘My Life Has Been Saved’ single released (UK), as the fourth single taken from the "The Miracle" album
A. Scandal (album version) - by Brian May
B. My Life Has Been Saved (single version) - by John Deacon
🔸"I have kept the first take, as Freddie did for the vocals. In one evening, the song was finished, because we couldn't do a better take."
- Brian May
Interview 1989
🔸"This is something from me, obviously. The idea for this song happened in the studio, but thematically, it's very close to all of our hearts – particularly Freddie and particularly me, and a little later, Roger, as we were pursued by the media to a destructive point. It was very painful, we did get very hurt – these paparazzi invading our lives. There's money to be made trashing peoples' lives in newspapers, and it's probably never going to change in England."
- Brian May
Interview 2003, Greatest Video Hits 2
🔸"For me, it was a pretty serious song – not serious in the sense that I think it's that great (laughs), but in that there was a lot of reality in the lyrics for me... I don't think it's totally successful, this video, as a portrayal of what's in the song. It's a kind of brave attempt, but it's a little cold, and you don't really see the band interacting as a band. It's a bit stagey. But at least it makes you think of what the song's really about."
- Brian May
Interview 2003, Greatest Video Hits 2
📸 Pic: 1989 - Queen photo session
"If every leaf on every tree
Could tell a story that would be a miracle
If every child on every street
Had clothes to wear and food to eat
That's a miracle
If all god's people could be free
To live in perfect harmony
It's a miracle
We're having a miracle on earth
Mother nature does it all for us"
- Freddie Mercury
'Exyract 'The Miracle'
➡Today, on November 27th, 1989 - Queen Story!
‘The Miracle’ / ‘Stone Cold Crazy (Live)’ released in the UK
👉 "'The Miracle' track, which is mainly Freddie, is a small masterpiece in its own way"
Brian May
October 1994, Guitar Magazine
📸 Photographer Ian Dickson