Deacon later cited the song as his favourite on the album. Though the bulk of the song was masterminded by Mercury, all members contributed ideas and lyrics (for example, Taylor contributed the line "we love you madly!"). The song harks back to the band's intricately produced sound in the 1970s. "Was It All Worth It" was composed by Mercury. The song was originally demoed as "My Baby Loves Me", but was rewritten to replace the word "loves" with "does" throughout. In a Radio 1 interview in 1989, each of them claimed the other had constructed the bassline. Both of them had the idea of a simpler track in order to ease off the album. "My Baby Does Me" is another collaboration of Mercury and Deacon. May has since commented that the song is very close to his heart. Mercury's lead vocals were also a first take. May played keyboards and did the guitar solo as a first take. "Scandal" was written by May about the British press, in the wake of media-fuelled controversy about his recent divorce, his relationship with Anita Dobson, and Mercury's rare public appearances due to his battle with AIDS. It would prove to be the band's penultimate album to be recorded with Freddie Mercury, as he died on 24 November 1991, nine months after their next album, Innuendo, was released. AllMusic would name The Miracle as Queen's best album of the 1980s, along with The Game. The album reached number one in the UK, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, and number 24 on the US Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. It was also the last Queen album with a photo of the band on the front cover. The album was originally going to be called The Invisible Men, but three weeks before the release, according to Roger Taylor, they changed the name to The Miracle. Recording started in January 1988 and lasted for an entire year. The album was recorded as the band recovered from Brian May's marital problems and Freddie Mercury's HIV diagnosis in 1987 (which was known to the band, though not publicised at the time). respectively, where it was the band's only studio album to be released on latter label. The Miracle is the thirteenth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on by Parlophone Records and Capitol Records in both the United Kingdom and the U.S.
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