Bijou Lyrics

"Bijou", released on Queen's 1991 album Innuendo was an idea shared by Freddie Mercury and Brian May to construct a song "inside-out" (having guitar doing the verses and the vocal doing the break). Mercury put the chords, title and lyrics, and the two of them worked on the guitar parts. Mercury sang the first line and then May transferred the melody to his Red Special guitar. The song was finished without any input from Taylor or Deacon. The idea was not new and already used by Yes on their song "Soon". May later credited Jeff Beck's 1989 song "Where Were You" as the inspiration for "Bijou". In 2008, Queen + Paul Rodgers performed this song in their shows of the Rock the Cosmos Tour, with May playing guitar to Mercury's pre-recorded vocals.