Queen | Queen II | Sheer Heart Attack | A Night at the Opera | A Day at the Races | News of the World | Jazz
The Game | Hot Space | The Works | A Kind of Magic | The Miracle | Innuendo | Made in Heaven
- Creator's Favorite Episode: Brian May described this as his pick for the band's best album, stating that "it has so much beauty in it. It was a long, long process, painstakingly put together. A real labour of love."
- Died During Production: Freddie was able to plan for this happening, leaving lead vocals for the surviving band members to flesh out into actual songs, but only managed to record three due to his failing health. Of those three, only "A Winter's Tale" was actually completed in a way that could be fleshed out without altering or adding to the lead vocal track. Brian had to sing the last verse of "Mother Love" because Freddie realised he wasn't fit to continue recording when they got to that verse; despite planning to finish the song later, he never made it back to the studio. Meanwhile, "You Don't Fool Me" was essentially scraps MacGyvered into a coherent song by producer David Richards. The other ten tracks were put together from past outtakes and side-projects.
- Feelies: The original Parlophone Records CD release features embossed calligraphy Q's (taken from the Queen logo) lining the disc tray's spine. Sadly, this effect isn't replicated on any other release, not even on the 2011 remastered CD (which in theory could've printed the design in 2D on the inlay).
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: "Let Me Live" originally contained a line of backing vocals quoting Erma Franklin's "Piece of My Heart" on promo cassettes, which was removed at the last minute for the final release. Certain CD copies containing the original mix were allegedly distributed in the Netherlands and Mexico by mistake; these were very quickly recalled and are now considered valuable collector's items.
- Nominal Coauthor: "It's a Beautiful Day", "Let Me Live", "My Life Has Been Saved", "You Don't Fool Me", "A Winter's Tale", "It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise)", and " '13' " are all credited to the full band, keeping in line with the band's policy since The Miracle of crediting songs this way regardless of who actually wrote itnote . Of these, "It's a Beautiful Day", "A Winter's Tale", and "It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise)" were actually written by Freddie Mercury alone, "My Life Has Been Saved" was written by John Deacon alone, and " '13' " was written by Brian May, Roger Taylor, and David Richards. Only "Let Me Live" and "You Don't Fool Me" were true full band compositionsnote . "Made in Heaven", "I Was Born to Love You", "Heaven for Everyone", and "Too Much Love Will Kill You", meanwhile, were all credited to the actual songwriters, as they were redone versions of songs from the band members' side projects.
- Post-Release Retitle: The hidden thirteenth track originally went without a name; it was officially retitled " '13' "note for the 2015 double-LP reissue (mostly out of necessity, since it takes up the entire fourth side).
- Referenced by...:
- "I Was Born to Love You" plays during a volleyball match between Usagi and Mio in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.
- The album and titular song have been referenced in nearly every game from the Resident Evil franchise. The name is used alongside a graphic design of an angel either carrying a nuclear warhead or an RPG launcher, and can be found on anything belonging to the Umbrella Corporation, from jackets to lighters.
- Stone Ocean, the sixth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, sees Enrico Pucci evolving his Stand from Whitesnake into C-Moon, in an effort to achieve what he calls "Heaven". The final stage of his Stand's evolution just so happens to be called Made in Heavennote , and has the ability to speed up time exponentially until the universe ends and resets itself, with every living creature now being aware of their destiny.
