Heaven for Everyone

"Heaven for Everyone"
Artwork for German release
Single by the Cross
from the album Shove It
B-side
  • "Love on a Tightrope"
  • "Contact" (12-inch single only)
Released1988
Recorded1987–1988
GenreRock
Length5:08
LabelParlophone
Songwriter(s)Roger Taylor
Producer(s)
The Cross singles chronology
"Shove It"
(1988)
"Heaven for Everyone"
(1988)
"Manipulator"
(1989)
Music video
"Heaven for Everyone" on YouTube
"Heaven for Everyone"
Artwork for UK release
Single by Queen
from the album Made in Heaven
B-side"It's a Beautiful Day"[1]
Released23 October 1995 (1995-10-23)[2]
Recorded
  • 1987
  • 1993–1995
GenreRock
Length
  • 5:36 (album version)
  • 4:37 (single version)
Label
Songwriter(s)Roger Taylor
Producer(s)Queen
Queen singles chronology
"These Are the Days of Our Lives"
(1992)
"Heaven for Everyone"
(1995)
"A Winter's Tale"
(1995)
Music video
"Heaven for Everyone" on YouTube

"Heaven for Everyone" is a song written by British rock band Queen drummer Roger Taylor. It originally appeared on his side project the Cross's album Shove It, with Freddie Mercury as a guest vocalist, and it is the album's fourth track. It was reworked with Queen's music and appeared in their fifteenth and final studio album, Made in Heaven (1995), where it was the seventh track, and was released as the first single by Parlophone – four years after Mercury's death. Queen's version reached number two on the UK Singles Chart while peaking at number one in Hungary and becoming a top-ten hit in several other European nations. In 1999 it was included in Queen's compilation album Greatest Hits III.[3]

Directed by David Mallet, the accompanying music video opens with images of graffiti messages in tribute to Mercury outside his home, Garden Lodge, Kensington in London, before showing footage of Georges Méliès seminal 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon and The Impossible Voyage (1904).[4][5]

  1. ^ "Queen UK Singles Discography 1992-2017". www.ultimatequeen.co.uk.
  2. ^ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 21 October 1995. p. 35. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  3. ^ Queen - Greatest Hits III. Allmusic. Retrieved 25 April 2021
  4. ^ Purvis, Georg (2007). Queen: Complete Works. Reynolds & Hearn. p. 165.
  5. ^ Queen Promo Videos: Heaven For Everyone Ultimate Queen. Retrieved 14 November 2011