"Innuendo" is a 1991 song by the English rock band Queen. It is the opening track on the album of the same name, and was released as the first single from the album. At six and a half minutes, it is one of Queen's longest songs, and their longest ever released as a single, exceeding "Bohemian Rhapsody" by 35 seconds. The single went straight to No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1991. It features a flamenco guitar section performed by Yes guitarist Steve Howe and Brian May, an operatic interlude that harks back to the Queen of old, sections of heavy metal, and lyrics inspired in part by lead singer Freddie Mercury's illness; although media stories about his health were being strenuously denied, he was by now suffering from the HIV/AIDS virus which would claim his life in November 1991. Accompanied by a music video featuring animated representations of the band on a cinema screen akin to Nineteen Eighty-Four, eerie plasticine figure stop-motion and harrowing imagery, it has been described as one of the band's darkest and most moving works. All music described the song as a "superb epic", which deals with "mankind's inability to live harmoniously."