13 December 1990 – Hibbert Ralph Animation Ltd produced a version of “Innuendo” music video.

After the phenomenal success of The Miracle, and indeed the 1980s in general, Queen were soon recording the follow-up. What emerged in February 1991 was to become the last completed Queen studio album in Freddie’s lifetime – ‘Innuendo.’ The first single lifted from this stunning return to form was the epic title track, a song which was six and a half minutes in length but had hit written all over it.

Unusually for Queen, the video had minimum input from the band – much of the ideas coming from director’s Jerry Hibbert and Rudi Dolezal. The piece required no actual work on the part of the band, relying instead of award winning animation. There were two main sections to the video – the first was a doll’s house style theatre complete with grotesque yet imaginative characters was made from clay models and was brought to life via stop motion animation. The second part was the more difficult to create, as each member of the band became a living characature in the style of famous artists. To this end, live action stock footage was used as a template, in effect placing an oddly realistic yet heavilly stylised version of Queen directly in the centre of the action.

The two styles of animation, including a masterful stop motion vaudeville inspired jester dance sequence during the flamenco guitar solo, were combined with archive footage of war and celebration, in much the same vein as the earlier Under Pressure video, plus animated recreations of Granville’s drawings which had inspired the album and single sleeve design for the era. The result was breathtaking – a true masterpiece once again from a band that seemingly knew no limitations.

14 December 1979, Queen performed @ The Rainbow Theatre London, England

During the Sold-Out “Crazy” Tour

Queen returned to the Rainbow Theatre in 1979, having previously played three landmark shows just five years earlier in 1974.

Parts of the promo video for ‘Save Me’ were filmed before the show, but the operation was aborted after the director, Keith McMillan, fell into the orchestra pit as Frank Zappa had in 1971. Filming would continue a few days later at the Alexandra Palace show.