In particular, the album is heavily synthesiser-driven that is not characteristic of previous Queen albums.

Bad Guy as 'outstanding from start to finish' and expressed his view that Mercury 'did a commendable job of stretching into uncharted territory'.

AllMusic critic Eduardo Rivadavia describes Mr.

The song also garnered Mercury a posthumous Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. In 1993, a remix of ' Living on My Own', a single from the album, posthumously reached number one on the UK Singles Charts. Bad Guy, debuted in the top ten of the UK Album Charts. Mercury's two full albums outside the band were Mr. The song 'Love Kills' was written for the film by Giorgio Moroder in collaboration with Mercury, and produced by Moroder and Mack in 1984 it debuted at the number 10 position in the UK Singles Chart. Eleven years later, Mercury contributed to the soundtrack for the restoration of the 1927 Fritz Lang film Metropolis. Mercury's first solo effort goes back to 1972 under the pseudonym Larry Lurex, when Trident Studios' house engineer Robin Geoffrey Cable was working in a musical project, at the time when Queen were recording their debut album Cable enlisted Mercury to perform lead vocals on the songs ' I Can Hear Music' and ' Goin' Back', both were released together as a single in 1973. Following Mercury's death in 1991, several posthumous box sets and compilation albums have been released. Although his solo work was not as commercially successful as most Queen albums, the two off-Queen albums and several of the singles debuted in the top 10 of the UK Music Charts. As well as his work with Queen, Freddie Mercury released two solo albums and several singles.

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