I'm Going Slightly Mad

"I'm Going Slightly Mad"
Artwork for UK release
Single by Queen
from the album Innuendo
B-side
  • "The Hitman"
  • "Lost Opportunity"[2]
Released4 March 1991 (1991-03-04)[1]
Recorded1990
GenreSynth-pop[3]
Length
  • 4:22 (CD version)
  • 4:09 (LP edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)Queen (Freddie Mercury and Peter Straker)
Producer(s)
Queen singles chronology
"Innuendo"
(1991)
"I'm Going Slightly Mad"
(1991)
"Headlong"
(1991)
Music video
"I'm Going Slightly Mad" on YouTube

"I'm Going Slightly Mad" is a song by the British rock band Queen. Written by Freddie Mercury but credited to Queen, with uncredited lyrical contributions by Peter Straker, it was released as the second single from the band's 1991 album Innuendo. The song was released as a single on 4 March 1991, a month after the release of the album. The lyrics and the accompanying music video project the song as humorous and lighthearted,[4] despite the lyrics dealing with the mental decline Mercury was experiencing as one of the effects of advancing AIDS.

The single cover was inspired by a Grandville illustration (as are the others from the album).

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 2 March 1991. p. vi.
  2. ^ "Queen UK Singles Discography 1984-1991". www.ultimatequeen.co.uk.
  3. ^ Popoff, Martin (27 November 2018). Queen: Album by Album. Voyageur Press. p. 190. ISBN 9780760362839. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  4. ^ ""Innuendo" review". Los Angeles Times. 15 February 1991.