- 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 singerFreddie Mercury received from the press in the late 1980s involving May's divorce and marriage to actressAnita Dobson and Mercury's growing health problems (he had yet to tell the public he hadHIV and/orAIDS ).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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