Overview
- The anniversary edition arrives on 180-gram translucent green vinyl using the 2019 mix by Justin Shirley-Smith and Joshua J. Macrae.
- Episode 1 of a three-part series on Mercury’s official YouTube channel features 1985 interview excerpts with David Wigg alongside music-video clips.
- In the archival interview, Mercury frames the record as a personal challenge and describes its songs as love ballads that balance pain with tongue-in-cheek flair.
- Originally released in 1985 just before Live Aid, the album drew lukewarm reviews and modest sales despite its Musicland/Mack pedigree.
- Coverage notes ties to Queen—including ‘There Must Be More to Life Than This’ and ‘I Was Born to Love You’—and offers a reassessment that prizes standouts like ‘Living On My Own’ while faulting filler elsewhere.