These Are the Days of Our Lives is a song by the English rock band Queen. It is the eighth track on the album Innuendo and was credited to the group as a whole (in fact, it was written by Roger Taylor).
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The accompanying video was the last to feature the band's frontman Freddie Mercury as he was in the final stages of a battle with AIDS. The majority of the footage used in the video was filmed by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher on May 30th 1991, in promotion of the song's release as a single in the U.S. Mercury, Taylor and John Deacon were present, with additional footage of guitarist Brian May filmed some weeks later, as he was out of the country on a radio promotional tour at the time of the principle film shoot. The version of the finished video serviced to the U.S. market also featured some animated footage produced by animators for the Walt Disney Studios, as Queen's North American record label, Hollywood Records, is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
The song was issued as a double A-side single in the U.K. on December 9, 1991, in the wake of Mercury's death, with the seminal Queen track "Bohemian Rhapsody". The single debuted at #1 on the UK singles chart.
The song was awarded a Brit Award for "Best Single" in 1992.
The song was played on the 2005/06 Queen + Paul Rodgers tours with vocals by Roger Taylor. On stage the song was accompanied by a video of the band in their early days in Japan.