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Back To The Light

Charts: UK: 6th (14 weeks on chart) - Gold Japan: 42nd (3 weeks on chart)

Recorded at Allerton Hill, Mountain, Sarm East, Mono Valley, Marcus and Townhouse Studios

UK release: 28 September 1992
USA release: 23 February 1993

Produced by Brian May with Justin Shirley-Smith and David Richards
Engineered by Justin Shirley-Smith

All vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards and anything else around by Brian May except:

Drums: Cozy Powell, Geoff Dugmore
Bass: Gary Tibbs, Neil Murray
Piano: Mike Moran
Keyboards: Don Airey
B.V.s Miriam Stockley, Maggie Ryder, Suzie O'List, Gill O'Donovan
John Deacon: Bass on Nothin' but Blue
Chris Thompson: Co-vocals on Rollin' Over

This album is dedicated to Harold May, Alfred Dobson and Freddie Mercury. And to all those loved ones we have lost too soon.

Track listing:
1. The Dark [2:20] May
2. Back To The Light [4:59] May
3. Love Token [5:55] May
4. Resurrection [5:27] May (words), Jamie Page (music)
5. Too Much Love Will Kill You [4:28] May, Frank Musker, Elizabeth Lamers
6. Driven By You [4:11] May
7. Nothin' But Blue [3:31] May (words), Cozy Powell, Geoff Nicholls, Steve Makin (music)
8. I'm Scared [4:00] May
9. Last Horizon [4:10] May
10. Let Your Heart Rule Your Head [3:51] May
11. Just One Life [3:38] May
12. Rollin' Over [4:36] Steve Mariot, Ronnie Lane

US CD bonus track:

Driven By You (Radio Mix)

Japanese CD bonus tracks:

Just One Life (Guitar Version)
Too Much Love Will Kill You (Guitar Version)

"Dear folks,

This is an album of songs, and the man who finished making it today is very different from the man who started it five years ago. So this is not a set of ideas put down at one moment, nor is it the story of my life; it is merely a collection of attempts made at variuos times to make sense of life's journey. Thus you won't find much in here about how fab it is to be a rock star in Queen; but you may find, in contrast, glimpes of someone quite small and insecure. I know him well.

Music is joy to me, and living in it is sometimes the only safe place to be. Much of what is recorded here is for fun, escapism, music for it's own sake, and although I mean what I say, take it all with a small pinch of salt.

In my mind, this album was always called Back To The Light. At it's beginning I felt no real hope of finding the light; now it glimmers dimly, encouragingly, but always intermittently in the hall of mirrors around me. I suppose if we ever knew exactly where the light was coming from, getting there would be easy....."