"Q" magazine wrote: "Ten new tracks (and one reprise). No filler. No shame. An essential purchase for Queen fans, certainly, but even without its special significance," Made in Heaven "is probably a better album than "Innuendo" and a fitting swan song by one of the most incandescent groups in rock." Made in Heaven "is also the last musical will and testament of a star who was never going to be turned into a saint, but whose grandstanding performances were, right to the very end, always marked by reckless enthusiasm and a rare generosity of spirit."