Credits

• Written by: Queen
• Produced by: Queen and David Richards
• Musicians:

Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals, piano, keyboards

Brian May - guitars, backing vocals

John Deacon - bass guitar

Roger Taylor - drums, backing vocals, keyboards, drum programming

David Richards - programming, keyboards

• Length: 4:07

Discography

Albums:

	The Miracle, 1989
	Greatest Hits II, 1991

Singles:

Breakthru, 1989

Compilations:

	NOW 16, CD, UK, 1989, CD NOW 16
	The Wild One, CD, UK, 1990, CDP79649062
	Red Hot Metal, CD, UK, 1991, CCD 21
	Musikexpress 9, CD, Germany, 1997, 10/1997

Alternate Versions:

• 7" Edit Remix - 1989 US CDS Promo Capitol DPRO-79746
• Karaoke Instrumental - Japan Toshiba EMI TOLW - 3249.50
• 12" Extended - 12" Collection: CDQ TEL 0001
• 1989 US CD Now Edit - 1989 US CDS Promo Capitol DPRO-79746
• 1989 US CD Almost Now Edit - 1989 US CDS Promo Capitol DPRO-79746
• 1998 eYe Instrumental 2:04 Edit - Electronic Arts DDE05501 101S
• A New Life Is Born: Original Demo - Unreleased
• Drumbeat Instrumental - Unreleased

Queen Talks

"It's the prime example what we were talking about before, I mean, the track 'Breakthru' sort of stemmed from Roger, really, it's basically his track. But the sort of a capella vocal bit in front was from someone else, as we've said: we have 30 tracks, and that was a little piece that I thought was quite good, and I didn't want it to go amiss, and I just said, 'Oh, well, we’ll just put it in front of "Breakthru".' It’s basically another song, sort of seem to go away quite nicely, so, we just snipped it."

Freddie Mercury - 29/05/1989, BBC Radio One (interview with Mike Read)

"I very much like the track, this is a Roger track, full of energy, and the track speaking lyrically is about breaking through to the next part of your life."

Brian May - 2003, Greatest Video Hits 2 DVD commentary

Additional Information

• As explained by Freddie above, the introduction of 'Breakthru' was derived from an unreleased song of his titled A New Life Is Born. A longer, but not necessarily more complete, version of the song was recorded during sessions for The Miracle.

Covers

Cover Versions

Chords & Tabs

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Lyrics