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2[[caption-width-right:350:''"Made in heaven, made in heaven\
3It was all meant to be, yeah."'']]
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5->''"It's a beautiful day.\
6The sun is shining, I feel good.\
7And no one's gonna stop me now, oh yeah."''
8-->--"It's a Beautiful Day"
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10''Made in Heaven'' is the fifteenth and final album by the British {{rock}} band Music/{{Queen|Band}}, released through Creator/ParlophoneRecords in the United Kingdom and Creator/HollywoodRecords in America on 6 November 1995. After recording ''Music/{{Innuendo}}'', Music/FreddieMercury spent the remaining months of his life recording additional vocal and piano tracks before becoming too sickly to finish his final song "Mother Love", leaving the final verse to be sung by Music/BrianMay. On 24 November 1991, Mercury passed away after a lengthy battle with AIDS.
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12The remaining members of the band assembled these recordings between 1993 and 1995 and recorded instrumentations in their studio in Montreux, Switzerland, the site of the Freddie Mercury statue as seen on the album cover. Despite wishing to complete as much material as possible, Mercury only left behind enough material for three songs; the rest had to be pieced together from outtakes, side projects, and solo projects. For instance, "Made in Heaven", from which the album derives its name, was originally a song from Mercury's solo album ''Mr. Bad Guy''; the band re-recorded the instrumental parts to fit it in with their style. Furthermore, two of the songs are essentially cover versions of songs originally recorded by May for his solo career and Roger Taylor for his side project The Cross: "Too Much Love Will Kill You" for the former, and "Heaven for Everyone" for the latter.
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14The album was released in two formats: a 48-minute LP, and a CD version with an additional 22-and-a-half-minute untitled ambient track. The covers of both were also different, portraying the Lake Geneva scenery in dawn and dusk respectively. It went quadruple platinum in the United Kingdom, also reaching gold and platinum status in various markets around the world. Two years after the release of the album, the band put out one last single, "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" (recorded for the compilation ''Queen Rocks''), John Deacon retired from music, and Music/{{Queen|Band}} became inactive until 2004. To assure that they wouldn't be truly replacing Mercury, they would bill themselves as a collaborative act with a guest singer, first with Music/BadCompany frontman Paul Rodgers as "Queen + Paul Rodgers," then with ''Series/AmericanIdol'' runner-up Music/AdamLambert as "Queen + Adam Lambert."
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16''Made in Heaven'' was supported by six singles: "Heaven for Everyone", "A Winter's Tale", "I Was Born to Love You" (Japan only), "Too Much Love Will Kill You", "Let Me Live" and "You Don't Fool Me".
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18!! Tracklist:
19# "It's a Beautiful Day" (2:33)
20# "Made in Heaven" (5:25)
21# "Let Me Live" (4:46)
22# "Mother Love" (4:46[[note]]4:49 with silent pre-gap[[/note]])
23# "My Life Has Been Saved" (3:15)
24# "I Was Born to Love You" (4:50[[note]]4:25 on 1995 LP[[/note]])
25# "Heaven for Everyone" (5:36[[note]]4:43 on 1995 LP[[/note]])
26# "Too Much Love Will Kill You" (4:20)
27# "You Don't Fool Me" (5:25[[note]]4:46 on 1995 LP[[/note]])
28# "A Winter's Tale" (3:49)
29# "It's a Beautiful Day" [-(reprise)-] (3:01)
30# "Yeah"[[note]]unlisted[[/note]] (0:04[[note]]the original LP release features a locked groove at the end, making the runtime "four seconds plus however long it takes to lift the needle off the record"[[/note]])
31# " '13' "[[note]]ambient instrumental track; unlisted and untitled until the 2015 LP release[[/note]] (22:33)
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34!!Principal Members:
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36* John Deacon - bass, electric guitar, keyboard
37* Music/BrianMay - electric guitar, backing vocals, keyboards, co-lead vocals ("Let Me Live", "Mother Love")
38* Music/FreddieMercury - lead vocals, keyboards, backing vocals, drum machine
39* Roger Taylor - drums, backing vocals, keyboards, co-lead vocals ("Let Me Live")
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42!!Let me live and make a brand new trope:
43* AlternateAlbumCover: The CD cover depicts the view of the band's Montreux studio at dusk; the LP release, meanwhile, showcases the same area at dawn. Consequently, the back photo of the band also changes, going from them gazing at the Alps to them gazing at the rising sun.
44* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The common {{Fanon}} of the once-untitled 22-and-a-half-minute ambient track " '13' ".
45* {{Bookends}}: Discounting the {{hidden track}}s, the album begins and ends with "It's a Beautiful Day." On another level, as the reprise heads for the close, samples from "Seven Seas of Rhye," the final song on [[Music/Queen1973 their first album]], are mixed into the track.
46* EpicRocking: The unlisted ambient track lasts for 22 and a half minutes. It wasn't on the 1995 LP, at least not in its entirety (the opening seconds occupy a locked groove at the end), but the 2015 LP has it as side four.
47* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "It's a Beautiful Day" → "Made in Heaven"; "A Winter's Tale" → "It's a Beautiful Day" (reprise) → "Yeah"[[note]]consists of the last second and first few seconds of tracks 11 and 13, respectively[[/note]] → track 13.
48* HiddenTrack: "Yeah" and " '13' " weren't listed. And " '13' " was so named because it is track 13 and otherwise untitled.
49* LimitedLyricsSong: "Yeah" consists solely of the word "yeah." Likewise, the only lyrics in " '13' " are a mantra of "are you running?" during the bridge and Freddie Mercury shouting "fab!" at the very end.
50* LongestSongGoesLast: The album closes with " '13' ", which at 22:33 holds the position of being the longest track in Queen's discography.
51* MatchCut: The music video for "Too Much Love Will Kill You" has a series of match-cuts featuring a number of different masks that takes up the entire screen.
52* MinisculeRocking: "Yeah" only lasts four seconds (the minimum track length of a ''Red Book''-compliant CD), and only lasted a few more seconds on any LP release (albeit ending in a locked groove).
53* NoTitle: " '13' " officially went unnamed until a 2015 LP reissue of the album, which named it out of necessity due to it taking up the entire fourth side. "Yeah" meanwhile still goes without an official title, with the name being derived from [[LimitedLyricsSong its one and only lyric]].
54* PosthumousCollaboration: Deliberate on Freddie's part. Freddie recorded as many vocals as he could for the band to work with, but they still had to dig deeper than that to make a full album. For example, Brian sings the last verse of "Mother Love" because Freddie didn't finish his vocals, a number of songs are repurposed from collaborations or Freddie's solo career, and "You Don't Fool Me" was essentially {{MacGyver|ing}}ed into a coherent song from scraps. Even discounting the solo career material, a lot of Freddie's vocal and piano work on this album comes from long before 1991. All in all, only three songs[[note]]"Mother Love", "You Don't Fool Me", "A Winter's Tale"[[/note]] are actually written and completely recorded after ''Innuendo''.
55* ProductionThrowback:
56** "Mother Love" samples Freddie Mercury's call-and-response chant from the band's 1986 Wembley Stadium concert (as documented in the 1992 LiveAlbum ''Live at Wembley '86''), with the synth string intro to [[Music/AKindOfMagic "One Vision"]] playing in the background. The last lines of the song are additionally lifted from Mercury's 1973 solo cover of [[Music/DustySpringfield "Goin' Back"]], which was included as the B-side to Mercury's debut solo single (released under the pseudonym Larry Lurex), a rendition of the Ronettes' "I Can Hear Music".
57** "I Was Born to Love You" samples Mercury's ad-libs from the TitleTrack to ''Music/AKindOfMagic''.
58** "A Winter's Tale", recorded during the post-''Innuendo'' sessions, has a subtle but charming one: "It's ''Music/{{a kind of magic}}'' in the air".
59** The breakdown in "It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise)" samples the piano riff from the closing track of both ''Music/{{Queen|1973}}'' and ''Music/QueenII'', "Seven Seas of Rhye".
60** Mercury's interjection of "yeah!" in both "It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise)" and the aptly-titled "Yeah" is sampled from [[Music/HotSpace "Action This Day"]].
61* RearrangeTheSong:
62** Both versions of "It's a Beautiful Day" are taken from a demo that Music/FreddieMercury recorded during the sessions for ''Music/{{The Game|Queen}}'' in 1980.
63** "Made in Heaven" and "I Was Born to Love You" are remixes of tracks from Freddie's solo album ''Mr. Bad Guy'', featuring the original vocals atop re-recorded instrumental parts.
64** "Let Me Live" is a remix of an unreleased song recorded with Music/RodStewart in 1983. Music/BrianMay and Roger Taylor would ultimately take Stewart's role in the final version.
65** "My Life Has Been Saved" was originally the B-side to [[Music/TheMiracle "Scandal"]]; the version included on this album features re-recorded instrumentals.
66** "Heaven for Everyone" is a remix of a song that Music/FreddieMercury recorded with Roger Taylor's side project the Cross. The 1995 version features a re-recorded backing track and backing vocals and omits the spoken-word portions.
67** "Too Much Love Will Kill You" is a remixed outtake from ''Music/TheMiracle'' that was previously re-recorded by Music/BrianMay for his solo debut ''Back to the Light''.
68* RecordProducer: The album is Queen's first since ''Music/{{News of the World|Queen}}'' to feature the band as the sole credited producer, though like that album, the engineer (Mike Stone there, David Richards here) served as a de-facto co-producer.
69* ReCut: Initial LP releases edited a few tracks and excised " '13' " in order to fit the album on one disc. To compensate, "Yeah" segues into a locked groove containing the first few seconds from " '13' ". The 2015 vinyl reissue manages to include the full CD tracklist by spreading it across two discs, with " '13' " taking up the entirety of side four.
70* StepUpToTheMicrophone:
71** Music/BrianMay and Roger Taylor share lead vocal duties with Music/FreddieMercury on "Let Me Live".
72** Music/BrianMay sings the last verse of "Mother Love", as Music/FreddieMercury died before he could record that part.
73* TalkAboutTheWeather: The lyrics to "A Winter's Tale" are simply about the beauty of winter weather; fittingly, they were derived from the sights outside Freddie's hospital window at Lake Geneva.
74* VocalTagTeam: Music/FreddieMercury, Music/BrianMay, and Roger Taylor all trade off lead vocals on "Let Me Live". Mercury sings most of the song, Taylor sings the second and third verses, and May sings the fourth verse.
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76->''"Fab!"''

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