S06E20 Queen 'Made In Heaven'

And we are here with the difficult final album.

I mean,

the most final you can get, I suppose,

yeah.

You know, people move on from singers and things like that.

But what do you do when you're the main man? dies

yeah and dave well if you're queen you get together any little kind of snippets of stuff that freddie mercury had either done on purpose and left for you or had just been languishing in the vaults yeah

and

you put it all in one big bucket and you make a brand new album and look i feel like i need to get this out of the way straight away when we're going to do this record we're going to talk about a record that has clearly been made in a period of grief by people who love the individual very, very much.

And they put together a record using the things.

And obviously it was very clear that Freddie had got intent that he wanted things to come out.

He recorded until he was not able to record anymore.

He had a desire to get this music out.

um and you know i think whatever gets said in this episode it's said with a caveat that i think we all know that it's very sad that freddie mercury died freddie mercury was one of the world's great rock front men and that is very very sad but obviously tribute albums can be quite a difficult thing in a way can't they because they can be a little bit more because you can get caught up in your own in your own emotions and that can be more important than the process and now i'm not uh we haven't spoken about this album in advance i don't know how you feel about it and i don't want to give away how i feel about it but i do want to say if we don't dwell too much on that aspect of the album throughout i feel like we're going to give a fairer critical appraisal throughout

I am more than up for being fair in this way.

I do want to be, this is what I think, in genuine terms.

I think what we should probably caveat is that whenever we do make some slightly off-colour jokes, it's meant with sort of the softest humour.

We're not trying to be arseholes.

Are

you trigger warning Freddie Mercury, James? Pretty much.

I think

that's fair because there's some bits on here you go like, all right, well, that is funny.

i mean there is but and so if if you think it's in bad taste it may it may well be but we don't mean that in a way that we hate freddie or we're glad he's dead we're absolutely not

yeah