Scandal (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Scandal


Artist = Queen
from Album = The Miracle
B-side = My Life Has Been Saved
Released = October 9, 1989
Format = Vinyl record (7", 12") Cassette tape CD
[ Recorded = ]
Genre = Hard rock, Glam Metal, Progressive Rock
Length =

• 4:43 (Album Version)

• 6:23 (12" Extended Version)

Label = Parlophone, EMI, Capitol
Writer = Queen (Brian May)
Producer = Queen and David Richards
[ Reviews = ] *
Last single = "The Invisible Man" (1989)
This single = "Scandal" (1989)
Next single = "The Miracle" (1989)

Scandal is the fourth single from Queen's 1989 album "The Miracle".

Composition

Scandal was written by Brian May but credited to Queen, the song is about the unwanted attention May and singer Freddie Mercury received from the press in the late 1980s involving May's divorce and marriage to actress Anita Dobson and Mercury's growing health problems (he had yet to tell the public he had HIV and/or AIDS).cite web |url=http://www.queenpedia.com/index.php?title=Scandal |title= Scandal - Queenpedia |accessdate=2008-01-26 |format=HTML |work=http://www.queenpedia.com/ ] Queen had several bad experiences with the British tabloids throughout their career. [cite web |url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=7874 |title= Scandal - Songfacts |accessdate=2008-01-26 |format=HTML |work=http://www.songfacts.com/ ] Mercury chose early on to partly seclude himself from the press by these very reasons.

Recording

May recorded the keyboards and guitars in one take. Mercury's vocal was also done in one take.

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