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|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |last=Rivadavia |first=Eduardo |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r12964|pure_url=yes}} |title=Mr. Bad Guy - Freddie Mercury |website=[[AllMusic]] |date= |accessdate=August 3, 2011}}</ref>
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|rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Smith|first=Robin|date=4 May 1985|title=Albums|magazine=[[Record Mirror]]|page=18}}</ref>
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|rev3score = (positive)<!--add rating--><ref name=queen>{{cite web |last=Holmes |first=Tim |title=Mr Bad Guy - Rolling Stone (Issue 450) |url=http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_06-20-1985_-_Mr._Bad_Guy_-_Rolling_Stone_%28Issue_450%29 |website=Queen Archives |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223074712/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/freddiemercury/albums/album/203408/review/5943970/mr_bad_guy |accessdate=January 2, 2013|archive-date=2823 NovemberDecember 20102007 }}</ref>
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'''''Mr. Bad Guy''''' is the debut and only solo studio album by British musician [[Freddie Mercury]], lead singer of [[Queen (band)|Queen]]. Released in 1985, during a period in which Queen were on hiatus from recording, it contains eleven songs, all written by Mercury himself.<ref name="natureofanimals.com"/>
 
The album was reissued on 11 October 2019, in newly remixed form, on CD, vinyl, digital and streaming services, via [[Mercury Records]].<ref>{{Cite webmagazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8529162/freddie-mercury-never-boring-box-set |title = Freddie Mercury 'Never Boring' 5 Disc Box Set: Details| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date = 5 September 2019}}</ref>
 
==Background==
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Initially, the album was supposed to feature duets with Mercury and [[Michael Jackson]].
 
{{quoteblockquote|We had three tracks in the can, but unfortunately they were never finished. They were great songs, but the problem was time — as we were both very busy at that period. We never seemed to be in the same country long enough to actually finish anything completely.<ref name="MERCURY: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY OF FREDDIE MERCURY">[https://ultimateclassicrock.com/freddie-mercury-mr-bad-guy/ ''Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury'' (2012)] - ultimateclassicrock.com</ref>| Mercury in ''Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury''}}
 
However, other sources state that personal conflicts were to blame for unfinished tracks. Mercury reportedly dropped out of any further collaboration after feeling uncomfortable working with Jackson's pet llama in the studio.<ref>{{cite news|title= The real Freddie Mercury: why the Queen biopic only tells part of the story |newspaper= [[The Times]] |date= 19 October 2018 |accessdate= 30 October 2018 |url= https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-real-freddie-mercury-why-the-queen-biopic-only-tells-part-of-the-story-5ql37vgll}}</ref> One track from these collaborative sessions, "[[There Must Be More to Life Than This]]", was reworked for the ''Mr. Bad Guy'' album, although the original recording featuring Jackson was eventually released on ''[[Queen Forever]]'' in 2014.
 
===Production===
Recording was taxing on Mercury, as he took part in everything from performing the tracks (including vocals, piano and synthesizer), arranging the orchestration and working with the sound engineers. Mercury's use of synthesizers and orchestration in track development added to the diversity of each piece.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Queen: Days of Our Lives - Documentary}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.inquisitr.com/1604327/michael-jackson-freddie-mercury/|title=Michael Jackson andChased Freddie Mercury Away From Duet With Bubbles The Chimp|first=Lisa|last=Carley|date=November 12, 2014|work=inquistr[[inquisitr.com]]|accessdate=20 February 2015}}</ref>
{{quoteblockquote|The songs are not trying to be anything else but Freddie. A lot of people were expecting Freddie to be catering to the audience. He didn't want that. He just wanted the songs as they are. I didn't try to get involved in the mixing, because he may not have wanted a lot of new ideas at that stage. It was already great and I would not want to have gone in and made changes for the sake of it, like someone painting a nose on a Rembrandt portrait at the very end.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/reinhold-mack-queen-freddie-mercury-interview/ |title='He Was Music': Reinhold Mack On Working With Freddie Mercury |last= Chilton |first= Martin |date= 10 December 2019 |website=uDiscover Music |access-date= 18 June 2020}}</ref>| Mack on working with Mercury}}
 
The album's original title was ''Made in Heaven'', but Mercury changed his mind weeks before the album went to press.<ref name="youtube.com">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-MRhgC720 |title=Freddie Mercury interview (1985) |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2011-08-03}}</ref>
{{quoteblockquote|Basically, I was lost for a title, but as far as I'm concerned album titles are immaterial. I didn't know what to call it, but I had what I thought was a very beautiful track called "Made in Heaven", which seemed to conjure up an image of some kind. But to be honest, I'm not really worried about it. It's what you listen to that matters, not what the title is.<ref name="ARCHIVE MR. BAD GUY 1985">[http://www.freddiemercury.com/en/archive ARCHIVE MR. BAD GUY (1985)] - freddiemercury.com</ref>| Mercury during the album's promotion}}
 
The title would later be given to Queen's [[Made in Heaven|1995 album]] containing posthumous recordings with Mercury.
 
Originally released on [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]/[[CBS Records International|CBS]], copyrights for ''Mercury Songs'', a company owned by Freddie Mercury's estate, had been revoked following his death in 1991. ''Mr. Bad Guy'' would remain out of print on CD until 2000, when it was included on The Solo Collection, and in 2019, when it was reissued and remixed due to the commercial success of ''[[Bohemian Rhapsody (film)|Bohemian Rhapsody]]'', a biographical film about him.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}
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All songs written by [[Freddie Mercury]].
 
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| headline = Side one
| title1 = Let's Turn It On
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| title3 = [[I Was Born to Love You (song)|I Was Born to Love You]]
| length3 = 3:38
| title4 = [[Foolin' Around (Freddie Mercury song)|Foolin' Around]]
| length4 = 3:29
| title5 = Your Kind of Lover
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| headline = Side two
| title6 = Mr. Bad Guy
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| headline = UK CD bonus tracks<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Freddie-Mercury-Mr-Bad-Guy/release/1451821|title=Freddie Mercury - Mr. Bad Guy|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=20 December 2018}}</ref>
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| title12 = Let's Turn It On
| note12 = 12" Version
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