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| "These Are the Days of Our Lives" | ||||
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| Single by Queen | ||||
| from the album Innuendo | ||||
| A-side | "Bohemian Rhapsody" (UK, Ireland, and Germany) | |||
| B-side | "Bijou" (US) | |||
| Released | 5 September 1991 (first issue) 9 December 1991 (second issue) | |||
| Recorded | March 1989 – November 1990 | |||
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| Length | 4:13 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Roger Taylor | |||
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| "These Are the Days of Our Lives" on YouTube | ||||
"These Are the Days of Our Lives" is a song by the British rock band Queen. Although credited to the whole band, it was largely written by their drummer Roger Taylor, and is the eighth track on the band's 1991 album Innuendo.[1]
The song was released as a single in the United States on Freddie Mercury's 45th birthday, 5 September 1991, and as double A-side single in Ireland and the United Kingdom on 9 December, in the wake of Mercury's death, with the Queen track "Bohemian Rhapsody". The double A-side debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart and remained there for five weeks, topped the Irish Singles Chart for six weeks, and reached number 16 in Germany. The song was awarded a Brit Award for British Single of the Year in 1992.[2] In 1999, it was included on Queen's compilation album Greatest Hits III.[3]
Ron Hart of Rolling Stone writes, "the conga-driven synth ballad "These Are the Days of Our Lives" is Innuendo's most significant single, given that it was released on Mercury's 45th birthday, and that its video marked the last time his fans were able to see the singer alive, as it was filmed in May of 1991 during the final stages of his battle with AIDS. A ballad in the vein of "Love of My Life," it was a song that carried a significant amount of weight given the frailty of Mercury's appearance in the black-and-white video, later compounded when unreleased colour footage from the filming emerged in Days of Our Lives."[4]
- ^ "Innuendo – These Are The Days Of Our Lives". UltimateQueen. Retrieved 25 June 2011
- ^ "The Highs and Lows of the Brit Awards". BBC. Retrieved 24 June 2011
- ^ Queen - Greatest Hits III Allmusic. Retrieved 25 April 2021
- ^ "Remembering Queen's Last Masterpiece, 'Innuendo'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 18 March 2019.