We felt that we wanted to, and I remember, in fact, the first couple of tracks, Party and Khashoggi's Ship… is something that we just came into the studio, and things just evolved, naturally, straight away, so we were hungry for it.
Actually, that was really, I think, Freddie and Brian. I think I was having a skiing holiday at the time actually, and I came back, and they had the ideas for… no, I think Khashoggi's we were all there, but Party arose when I wasn't actually around.
I'm not sure whether Freddie was a hundred per cent over the moon about this album. He was very pleased with the result but perhaps he found it a little strange to be working in partnership with the other three members again after having to please only one other person for the past two-and-a-half years. This was the first album where all the tracks were suddenly credited to the band as a whole as opposed to each separate member. Maybe this stopped some arguments and made the accountants' lives easier but in the studio things were just as fractious. As anybody in a long-term marriage knows, which is basically what the Queen partnership was, tantrums and walkouts have to happen so that people can make up, get back together again and let life be good once more. However, for the record, I can assert that Khashoggi's Ship is Freddie's. Party was, of course, Roger's [sic]. The Miracle itself was a true studio collaborative creation. I Want It All is down to Brian. Rain Must Fall is Freddie… The guitar is the giveaway where Brian's tracks are concerned. The guitar work on them is unrestrained although he was very happy to contribute what was wanted of him on all the other tracks. The band didn't change their time-honoured way of working just because the accreditation had been changed.