Scandal (song)

"Scandal" is a song by the British rock group Queen. It was released as the fourth single from their 1989 album The Miracle and peaked at #25 in the UK. The single was released in the United States but failed to chart.

Composition

"Scandal", written by Brian May, but credited to Queen, 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 make it public that he had tested positive for HIV).^[1]

Recording

May recorded the keyboards and guitars in one take. Mercury's vocal was also done in one take.^[1]

Music video

The video for the song featured the band performing on a stage designed to look like a newspaper - it was filmed at Pinewood Studios in September 1989, and is notable for Mercury's apparently "gaunt" appearance.

In the audio commentary included with the video in Queen: Greatest Video Hits 2, Roger Taylor stated: "Not one of my favourite songs. One of the most boring videos we ever made."

Personnel

Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals
Brian May - lead guitar, keyboards
John Deacon - bass guitar
Roger Taylor - drums
David Richards - synth bass

Chart performance

Chart (1989)	Peak position
Dutch Singles Chart^[2]	12
Irish Singles Chart^[3]	14
UK Singles Chart^[4]	25

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Scandal - Queenpedia". http://www.queenpedia.com/. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
↑ http://www.dutchcharts.nl/
↑ http://www.irishcharts.ie/
↑ http://www.chartstats.com/

External links

v t e Queen singles discography

Queen	"Keep Yourself Alive" "Liar"

Queen II	"Seven Seas of Rhye"

Sheer Heart Attack	"Killer Queen"/"Flick of the Wrist" "Now I'm Here" "Lily of the Valley"

A Night at the Opera	"Bohemian Rhapsody" "You're My Best Friend" "Love of My Life"

A Day at the Races	"Somebody to Love" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)" "Long Away" "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy"

News of the World	"We Are the Champions"/"We Will Rock You" "Spread Your Wings" "It's Late"

Jazz	"Bicycle Race"/"Fat Bottomed Girls" "Don't Stop Me Now" "Jealousy" "Mustapha"

Live Killers	"Love of My Life" (Live) "We Will Rock You" (Live)

The Game	"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" "Save Me" "Play the Game" "Another One Bites the Dust" "Need Your Loving Tonight"

Flash Gordon	"Flash"

Hot Space	"Under Pressure" (with David Bowie) "Back Chat" "Las Palabras de Amor" "Calling All Girls" "Staying Power" "Body Language"

The Works	"Radio Ga Ga" "I Want to Break Free" "It's a Hard Life" "Hammer to Fall"

A Kind of Magic	"One Vision" "A Kind of Magic" "Princes of the Universe" "Friends Will Be Friends" "Pain Is So Close to Pleasure" "Who Wants to Live Forever" "One Year of Love"

The Miracle	"I Want It All" "Breakthru" "The Invisible Man" "Scandal" "The Miracle"

Innuendo	"Innuendo" "I'm Going Slightly Mad" "Headlong" "I Can't Live With You" "The Show Must Go On" "These Are the Days of Our Lives"

Made in Heaven	"Heaven for Everyone" "A Winter's Tale" "I Was Born to Love You" "Too Much Love Will Kill You" "Let Me Live" "You Don't Fool Me"

Queen Rocks	"No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)"

Greatest Hits III	"Under Pressure (Rah Mix)"

Non-album singles	"Thank God It's Christmas" "Another One Bites the Dust (Small Soldiers Remix)" "We Will Rock You" (with Five) "We Are the Champions" (with Robbie Williams) "Flash (Vanguard Mix)" "Another One Bites the Dust (The Miami Project Remixes)" "Bohemian Rhapsody" (with The Muppets)

Other songs	"Ogre Battle" "Nevermore" "See What a Fool I've Been" "Stone Cold Crazy" "Death on Two Legs" "I'm in Love with My Car" "The Prophet's Song" "Ride the Wild Wind" "Made In Heaven"

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