Liner Notes

Roger Taylor: lead vocals, guitar and backing vocals
Spike Edney: keyboards, mandolin and backing vocals
Peter Noone: bass and backing vocals
Clayton Moss: lead guitar, lead vocals on Better things and backing vocals
Josh Macrae: drums, percussion and backing vocals

Management: Jim Beach and Gerry Stickells

Produced by: The Cross and Justin Shirley-Smith
Engineered by: Justin Shirley-Smith
Band co-ordinator: Martin 'the chuckler' Groves
Recorded live in the studio entirely on Sony 24 track digital
at Mountain Studios, Montreux
Mastered by: Kevin Metcalfe at the Townhouse Studios

Artwork and sleeve design: Stephen Bliss and Richard Gray
Photography: Paul Rider

Special thanks to:
Helmut Fest and Lothar Meinerzhagen
and all at EMI Electrola, Cologne

Thanks to:
Jim Baker, the Big Ben Stompers, Derek and Grace,
Nicki Froude, Simon Gardner, Andre Gauchat, Julie Glover,
Richard Griffiths, Jacky Gunn, Mike Hill, Brian May,
Roxy Meade, Simon Pinder, David Richards, Freddie Stopler and Nicki,
Kaz Utsinomiya, and Vicky Vocat

Drums by Ludwig
Cymbals by Sabian

The Cross:
46, Pembridge Road, London W11 3HN, England
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Recording Studio

Mountain Studios
Mountreux, Switzerland

In 1975, Mountain Studios was built in the then new Montreux Casino by Tom Hidley. Queen first recorded there in 1978 for their album "Jazz". Queen were impressed with the fascilities and bought the studio for their own use the following year. David Richards, who joined the studio in 1977, went on to produce and engineer many of Queen's albums and their solo efforts.

Parts of Jazz, Hot Space, A Kind Of Magic, The Miracle, Innuendo, and Made In Heaven were all recorded at the studio. Solo efforts including Back To The Light, Barcelona, Fun In Space, Strange Frontier, Shove It, and Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know were all in part recorded there as well.

David Richards took full ownership of the studio in the mid 1990s and moved it to nearby Attalens, Switzerland. Richards owned the studio up until his death in 2013.

The Mountain Studios Control Room

Freddie Mercury in the control room

Roger Taylor recording in the studio