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The album was released in two formats: a 48-minute LP, and a CD version with an additional 22-and-a-half-minute untitled ambient track. The covers of both were also different, portraying the Lake Geneva scenery in dawn and dusk respectively. It went quadruple platinum in the United Kingdom, also reaching gold and platinum status in various markets around the world. Two years after the release of the album, the band put out one last single, "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" (recorded for the compilation ''Queen Rocks''), John Deacon retired from music, and Music/{{Queen|Band}} became inactive until 2004. To assure that they wouldn't be truly replacing Mercury, they would bill themselves as a collaborative act with a guest singer, first with Music/BadCompany frontman Paul Rodgers as "Queen + Paul Rodgers," then with ''Series/AmericanIdol'' runner-up Adam Lambert as "Queen + Adam Lambert."

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The album was released in two formats: a 48-minute LP, and a CD version with an additional 22-and-a-half-minute untitled ambient track. The covers of both were also different, portraying the Lake Geneva scenery in dawn and dusk respectively. It went quadruple platinum in the United Kingdom, also reaching gold and platinum status in various markets around the world. Two years after the release of the album, the band put out one last single, "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" (recorded for the compilation ''Queen Rocks''), John Deacon retired from music, and Music/{{Queen|Band}} became inactive until 2004. To assure that they wouldn't be truly replacing Mercury, they would bill themselves as a collaborative act with a guest singer, first with Music/BadCompany frontman Paul Rodgers as "Queen + Paul Rodgers," then with ''Series/AmericanIdol'' runner-up Adam Lambert Music/AdamLambert as "Queen + Adam Lambert."
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* {{Feelies}}: The original Creator/ParlophoneRecords CD release features embossed calligraphy Q's (taken from the Queen logo) lining the disc tray's spine. Sadly, this effect isn't replicated on any other release, not even on the 2011 remastered CD (which in theory could've printed the design in 2D on the inlay).
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** "Mother Love" samples Freddie Mercury's call-and-response chant from the band's 1986 Wembley Stadium concert (as documented in the 1992 LiveAlbum ''Live at Wembley '86''), with the synth string intro to [[Music/AKindOfMagic "One Vision"]] playing in the background.

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** "Mother Love" samples Freddie Mercury's call-and-response chant from the band's 1986 Wembley Stadium concert (as documented in the 1992 LiveAlbum ''Live at Wembley '86''), with the synth string intro to [[Music/AKindOfMagic "One Vision"]] playing in the background. The last lines of the song are additionally lifted from Mercury's 1973 solo cover of [[Music/DustySpringfield "Goin' Back"]], which was included as the B-side to Mercury's debut solo single (released under the pseudonym Larry Lurex), a rendition of the Ronettes' "I Can Hear Music".
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The remaining members of the band assembled these recordings between 1993 and 1995 and recorded instrumentations in their studio in Montreux, Switzerland, the site of the Freddie Mercury statue as seen on the album cover. Despite wishing to complete as much material as possible, Mercury only left behind enough material for three songs; the rest had to be pieced together from outtakes and solo projects. For instance, "Made in Heaven", from which the album derives its name, was originally a song from Mercury's solo album ''Mr. Bad Guy''; the band re-recorded the instrumental parts to fit it in with their style.

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The remaining members of the band assembled these recordings between 1993 and 1995 and recorded instrumentations in their studio in Montreux, Switzerland, the site of the Freddie Mercury statue as seen on the album cover. Despite wishing to complete as much material as possible, Mercury only left behind enough material for three songs; the rest had to be pieced together from outtakes outtakes, side projects, and solo projects. For instance, "Made in Heaven", from which the album derives its name, was originally a song from Mercury's solo album ''Mr. Bad Guy''; the band re-recorded the instrumental parts to fit it in with their style.
style. Furthermore, two of the songs are essentially cover versions of songs originally recorded by May for his solo career and Roger Taylor for his side project The Cross: "Too Much Love Will Kill You" for the former, and "Heaven for Everyone" for the latter.
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* RecordProducer: The album is Queen's first since ''Music/{{News of the World|Queen}}'' to feature the band as the sole credited producer, though like that album, the engineer (Mike Stone there, David Richards here) served as a de-facto co-producer.

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