The unreleased track was recorded for the penultimate album featuring Freddie Mercury’s vocals, 1989’s The Miracle.
Members of queen revealed to have found an unreleased track with vocals by Freddie Mercury – the band’s late lead singer. “Face It Alone”as it was called, will be released 33 years after the original recording, next September (via people).
In an interview with BBC Radio 2 last Saturday, 2nd, the guitarist Brian May and the drummer Roger Taylor said the “novelty” was produced in the studio during the album sessions The Miracle1989, which spawned the singles “I Want It All”, “Breakthru”, “The Invisible Man” and “Scandal”.
“We found a Freddie gem that we had forgotten about,” he said. Roger Taylor. “It’s Wonderful! It was a nice find, in fact, it was hidden right under our noses. We passed by it several times and thought that it would not be possible to recover it. But we came back and our wonderful engineering team said we could do it. We made collages of different parts, it’s beautiful, it’s passionate. A track fans will love to hear.”
The Miracle was the band’s penultimate album in the company of mercurywho died at age 45 of AIDS-related complications in November 1991.
Also according to the band, 30 songs were recorded at the time – of which only 10 reached the public in the final version. Over the years, some releases have revisited most of them.
In 2014, May and taylor rescued some of the songs and released the compilation album Queen Forever. The set featured three previously unreleased songs: “Let Me in Your Heart Again”, “Love Kills” and “There Must Be More to Life Than This”, with the participation of the eternal King of Pop, the late Michael Jackson.
Source: Rollingstone
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