Queen - Made in Heaven (CD) - CD

Details: Digitally re-mastered and expanded deluxe two CD edition of this 1995 album from the British Pomp rockers including a bonus five track CD. Originally released in 1995, this was the first posthumous release by the band since Freddie Mercury's death in 1991. The album topped the charts in Western Europe, with it's single, "Heaven for Everyone," reaching the Top Ten. Musically, Made in Heaven harked back to Queen's 1970s heyday with it's strong melodies and hard rock guitar playing, topped by Mercury's bravura singing and some of the massed choir effects familiar from "Bohemian Rhapsody." Even if one did not know that these songs were sung in the shadow of death, that subject would be obvious. The lyrics were imbued with life-and-death issues, from the titles - "Let Me Live," "My Life Has Been Saved," and "Too Much Love Will Kill You". The odd thing about this was that Mercury's over-the-top singing had always contained a hint of camp humor, and it continued to here, even when the sentiments clearly were as heartfelt as they were theatrically overstated. Maybe Mercury was determined to go out the same way he had come in, as a diva. If so, he succeeded.