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Single by the Cross | ||||
from the album Shove It | ||||
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Released | 1988 | |||
Recorded | 1987–1988 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 5:08 | |||
Label | Parlophone | |||
Songwriter(s) | Roger Taylor | |||
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"Heaven for Everyone" on YouTube |
"Heaven for Everyone" | ||||
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Single by Queen | ||||
from the album Made in Heaven | ||||
B-side | "It's a Beautiful Day"[1] | |||
Released | 23 October 1995[2] | |||
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Genre | Rock | |||
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Songwriter(s) | Roger Taylor | |||
Producer(s) | Queen | |||
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"Heaven for Everyone" on YouTube |
"Heaven for Everyone" is a song written by British rock band Queen drummer Roger Taylor. It originally appeared on his side project the Cross's album Shove It, with Freddie Mercury as a guest vocalist, and it is the album's fourth track. It was reworked with Queen's music and appeared in their fifteenth and final studio album, Made in Heaven (1995), where it was the seventh track, and was released as the first single by Parlophone – four years after Mercury's death. Queen's version reached number two on the UK Singles Chart while peaking at number one in Hungary and becoming a top-ten hit in several other European nations. In 1999 it was included in Queen's compilation album Greatest Hits III.[3]
Directed by David Mallet, the accompanying music video opens with images of graffiti messages in tribute to Mercury outside his home, Garden Lodge, Kensington in London, before showing footage of Georges Méliès seminal 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon and The Impossible Voyage (1904).[4][5]