LONDON –
Queen launched a rediscovered song that includes Freddie Mercury on Thursday, the band’s first new observe with the late frontman’s immediately recognizable vocals to come back out in additional than eight years.
Guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor first instructed followers in regards to the existence of “Face It Alone” throughout an interview in the summertime.
The observe was initially recorded within the late Eighties throughout periods for the band’s chart-topping album “The Miracle” but it surely didn’t make it to launch.
Queen’s manufacturing and archive staff discovered it once more after they started engaged on an upcoming field set reissue of the album, as a consequence of be launched in November.
“We’d sort of forgotten about this observe,” Taylor stated in an announcement. “But there it was, this little gem. It’s great, an actual discovery. It’s a really passionate piece.”
“The Miracle,” Queen’s thirteenth studio album, got here out two years earlier than Mercury died from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1991.
The upcoming reissue, launched as an eight-disc collector’s version field set, will function six unpublished songs in addition to dialogue between the band – Mercury, May, Taylor and bassist John Deacon – whereas within the studio.
Queen final included three previously unheard songs that includes Mercury on their 2014 album “Queen Forever.”
“I’m blissful that our staff have been capable of finding this observe (‘Face It Alone’),” May stated.
“After all these years, it is nice to listen to all 4 of us … working within the studio on an ideal song thought which by no means fairly received accomplished … till now!”
Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian. Editing by Jane Merriman