"These Are the Days of Our Lives" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It is the eighth track on the album Innuendo, and is harmonically and structurally one of the simplest songs of the band's catalogue. Keyboards were programmed by the four band members in the studio, and conga percussion (a synthesized conga) was recorded by their producer David Richards (although it was mimed in the video by Roger Taylor).
It was issued as a single in th...
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"These Are the Days of Our Lives" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It is the eighth track on the album Innuendo, and is harmonically and structurally one of the simplest songs of the band's catalogue. Keyboards were programmed by the four band members in the studio, and conga percussion (a synthesized conga) was recorded by their producer David Richards (although it was mimed in the video by Roger Taylor).
It was issued as a single in the United States on September 5, 1991 (which happens to be the last birthday Freddie lived to see) and as double A-side single in the UK on December 9, 1991, in the wake of Mercury's death, with the seminal Queen track "Bohemian Rhapsody". The single debuted at #1 on the UK singles chart. The song was awarded a BRIT Award for "Best Single" in 1992.
"These Are the Days of Our Lives" harks back to similarly-themed 1975 Queen song "Love of My Life", twice using the line "I still love you". At the end of the song, Mercury simply speaks the words,...
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