Queen were always a tight-knit unit. With a few exceptions – notably David Bowie on 1981 single Under Pressure and Joan Armatrading on A Kind Of Magic album track Don’t Lose Your Head – they resisted the lure of guest musicians, preferring to keep everything in house in the studio.
One person who did guest on a Queen song was Steve Howe. The Yes guitarist made a memorable appearance on the title track of 1991’s Innuendo album, adding some intricate flamenco-style guitar to the six-and-a-half minute single. Yet the union came about purely by chance, as he revealed when speaking to Prog magazine in 2012.
