Talk:Innuendo (song)

Innuendo (song)
The reference to Freddie Mercury as the composer is at least controversial. Most of Queen fan sites and blogs agree that the song was composed by Roger Taylor, and Brian May's site appears to confirm this attribution (http://www.brianmay.com/reviews/innuendo.html). Stefano Mancini (talk) 15:25, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Genres
Why I added Hard Rock and Progressive Rock as genres: It is hard and heavy. No argue. It changes mood and tempo at least three times in the middle section, contains a flamenco solo and something that sounds mostly operatic. And the explosive version got explosions. I think that says it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.224.80.23 (talk • contribs) 21:25, 28 January 2007

Progressive rock represents innovation, a genre that can be considered the avant-garde in rock music. But Innuendo is more than "rock". Slow tempo in almost all song give it a rush of heavy metal (a far idea of Iron Man - Black Sabbath and Kashmir - Led Zeppelin) as many critics say so: this song represents a look-through-the years to Queen's roots in late 60's and late 70's: heavy metal.

At least, progressive rock is defined as "the rock genre that incorporates atypical instruments in rock music; and adding fresh elements that made us think: Wow... Why didn't thought about that?" (Rolling Stone): the flamenco solo in the better example we could ever have. As progressive rock meets heavy metal, progressive metal appears.


 * Sorry for my english, i'm not british or american, even australian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.161.240.188 (talk) 03:07, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Chart positions
The source i have says this hit #6 in Italy. To the person who keep's putting this song's Italian chart position to #4, plz throw up a source. Also, someone have source for Innuendo's top position in Portugal?

Steve Howe
I found an interview with Steve about his involvement. (http://stevehowe.com/archives/archives1.html) 12.65.0.141 17:01, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I have added it on a "reference". AndreaG designag.info@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.32.148.185 (talk) 02:07, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Da Vinci, Victorian, Pollock, Picasso
The section about the video says:
 * ... Freddie drawn in the style of Leonardo da Vinci, Brian in the style of Victorian etchings, Roger in the style of Jackson Pollock, and John in the style of Pablo Picasso...

The source for this is a thread in a Queen newsgroup. Unfortunately, per WP:RS, a newsgroup is not a reliable source. It is also rather doubtful: I am not an expert in art and although Roger and John do resemble the styles of Pollock and Picasso, Freddie and Brian don't look like da Vinci and Victorian etchings to me. Of course, i might be wrong, but such information should be better referenced.

I don't challenge the comparison to 1984 - it does look similar enough to me, but that, too, should be properly referenced. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:46, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Genre
WHY DOES IT KEEP BEING CHANGED BACK TO ROCK? It says there was a discussion and consensus that that should be the genre, um, no there wasn't.  There was a consensus that it should be classified as Progressive Metal as seen above, who keeps changing it and why!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.229.59.15 (talk) 06:23, 11 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed, changed it back to Progressive metal. (82.28.237.200 (talk) 13:53, 18 July 2010 (UTC))
 * Already been discussed by logged in users on the Queen project and main queen pages. Agreement has always been for consistency throughout all Queen related pages. Rock covers it all. Wiki libs (talk) 14:26, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * But the genre of rock is so vague, why can't we just put the genre that it closest resembles? That being progrssive metal, or even progrssive rock? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.229.59.15 (talk) 03:28, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I agree with the post above me. If "Rock covers it all" then why do we even have sub genre's in the first place on Wikipedia? According to our definition for "Progressive Metal", this song covers it, as well as featuring a musician known for his "Progressive Rock" style playing a "progressive moment". I really believe this should be considered "Progressive Metal". -- 24.255.22.231 (talk) 08:34, 7 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Rock covers it all. We have subgenre articles because they contain useful information on their own, not because they're supposed to be linked to over and over. Also, nothing in a Wikipedia article, such as the Progressive metal article you mentioned counts as Wikipedia policy, so there is no precedent there. Why do users (mostly anonymous, such as yourselves) tend to get so worked up about the infobox? It's just supposed to be a short summary, not a bunch of overly-specific terms that confuse the casual reader. No article should list more than two loose genres in its infobox (at most). It's not helpful and it distracts from things that could actually improve the page. Give it a rest, guys. Friginator (talk)

Queen Guitarists
A linked article in this page states that Steve Howe was the only guitarist other than Brian May who appeared on a Queen record. However on sleeve notes and various articles (including on Wikipedia), both John Deacon and Roger Taylor are stated as guitarists on various tracks. In addition, Freddie Mercury played some guitar, at least on-stage (Crazy Little Thing Called Love), and so featured on the Wembley live album. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 20.139.229.64 (talk) 00:54, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Cited Guitarists Neilrb (talk) 04:15, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Roger Taylor eg Sheer Heart Attack, Drowse, Fight From The Inside
 * John Deacon eg Misfire, Who Needs You, Back Chat
 * Freddie Mercury eg Crazy Little Thing Called Love
 * Spike Edney eg Hammer To Fall (Live At Wembley Stadium)
 * Agreed (Deacon played the funky rhythm guitars in Another One Bites the Dust, too). But I think we can say that Howe was the only non-member to ever play guitar in a Queen studio recording.--Gorpik (talk) 15:46, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

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