There's backwards stuff on some other tracks, like "Flick Of The Wrist"
[being away from the band due to illness] It was very weird. I was able also to see the group from the outside, almost and I was very excited by what I saw. We’d done a few things before I’d got ill but, when I came out They’d done a load more things including a couple of backing tracks of songs that I hadn't heard from Freddie and I was really excited, ‘Flick of the Wrist’ was one. It gave me a lot of inspiration to get back in there and do what I wanted to do. I did sort of get them to change a few things which I didn't feel were right and I also asked for a couple of things to be changed which they said “No You’re Wrong” and they were probably right. It was good I wasn't negative at all I just went back in there with a lot of energy and enthusiasm and did my bits and the whole thing got finished off quite quickly then.
I wrote it as a sort of tongue-in-cheek story about the con-men and rip-off artists we're always running into. Our manager would like to think it's about him, but it's not.
Back home, [the single] was a double-A side, so Flick of the Wrist was the A-Side as well, so we were sort of putting across a sort of a taste of what was to come on the album.
This is a little song about a man with dubious morals.
A particularly vicious song by Freddie Mercury.
A dirty little number.
They are both about the same thing. But Flick of the Wrist is more generalised. I was aiming it at the music industry as a whole. Death on Two Legs is definitely more personal. It wasn't dedicated to an individual exactly, but I would rather not say precisely who it was pointed at. You know, a lot of people thought Killer Queen was about Jacquie [sic] Kennedy. It wasn't. The critics invented that.
This is a song slightly more in the vicious vein, written by Freddie in one of his most passionate moments, of which he has many.
That's a good one.