Back to the light freddie tracks

Exactly: 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' was a Miracle track until they had copyright issues and had to pull it out. Brian then rescued it as a solo piece, and then it came full circle when they put the 1988-1989 version on 'Made in Heaven' (nothing was added to it in the 1992 - 1995 period).

Two songs that Brian had penned for his solo album which he then heard Frederick singing were 'Headlong' and 'I Can't Live with You'. Both were then put on Innuendo.

It also makes me think that, certainly, complete songs from their 70's albums exist that never made it to any of their later efforts, for whatever reason anyway. All of the pre-90's songs in MIH come from 80's sessions, which makes sense too. When you think about it, it's pretty amazing that MIH is so good when it was built around 3 actual new songs and sewn together with reworked old material - plus the inclusion of the unaltered TMLWKY, which fits so well stylistically (IMO) that I wonder if it is more of an influence to the sound of the whole album than we think.

But I digress. This would be better discussed in another thread.

Actually, I've got a bit of time as I'm listening to Talk Heathen right now, so let's do a speculative rundown:

1. The Dark
: The 1980 stuff is instrumental, and the lullaby bit is basically a traditional hymn. It's unlikely that Frederick recorded it at any point.
2. Back To The Light
: Partly recorded in March 1988, while Frederick was still doing Barcelona.
3. Love Token
: Despite featuring Michael Moran, it's unlikely to have been considered for Queen based on the limited evidence we've got so far.
4. Resurrection
: Considering it was an instrumental first, and part of a record by Colin Powell which was released after Frederick's passing, the lyrics may have been penned after he died.
5. Too Much Love Will Kill You
: We know the story.
6. Driven By You
: Apparently, Frederick told him it was fine as it was or something like that. So we can rule out that one, again, based on the limited evidence we've got.
7. Nothin' But Blue
: I think I read somewhere that Brian wrote the lyrics the night before Frederick died or something like that, so, no.
8. I'm Scared
: It may have emerged at the same time as the title track and, as such, Frederick probably wasn't involved at all as he was doing Barcelona.
9. Last Horizon
: No room for Frederick there as there are no vocals and Michael played the synthesiser.
10. Let Your Heart Rule Your Head
: First thought of as a collaboration with Scottish musician Anthony Donegan, unlikely to have involvement from Frederick.
11. Just One Life: The fact it was partly recorded in Montreux could indeed suggest it may have been done during Queen sessions for either The Miracle, Innuendo or Made in Heaven, but not necessarily. Brian was, after all, wealthy enough to fly to Switzerland a random weekend and so some sessions without the rest of the band any time he felt like it.
12. Rollin' Over: Also part of the 1988 batch. Remember that, at that point, Brian may not have been clear about Frederick's illness, and he was doing a solo album with the deliberate intention of having a project away from the band.

According to the people involved and listed in the liner notes, it seems that there were some batches, and the spring 1988 one generated 'Back to the Light', 'I'm Scared' and 'Rollin' Over'.

The world's population was already over 5 billion by then. It's understandable you'd get some names repeated. There was also an Australian film composer called Brian May who died in '97.

Name puns!

Except that his name was Cozy Powell, not Colin Powell 😁

On the same subject I wonder if any from Shove it have some more Freddie Vocals, there's a sample of him in Shove It (the song) that doesn't seem to be from anything released.

I guess The Cross song we have the most evidence of a possible Queen recording is "In Charge Of My Heart" as it came from the Stealin' jam.

which sample in particular?

Probably recorded at the same time he recorded Heaven For Everyone.

I seriously doubt that Freddie ever sang Just One Life. The timing makes it seem very unlikely to me. Brian has stated that he wrote it after attending a memorial with Anita for Philip Sayer. Philip Sayer died in September 1989, so the memorial obviously happened sometime after that - meaning this song wasn’t written until late 1989 at the earliest. If Queen worked on at all, it would have to have been during the Innuendo sessions or the random sessions up to May 1991 where comparatively little was actually completed and Freddie”s energy for vocal tracks was waning. Given that the Innuendo material and even the few bits completed after were of higher quality than Just One Life, I don’t see Freddie wasting precious time on this - especially with the lyrics being a bit too on the nose to his own personal situation. 

(I will forgo my cynical speculation that, had a workable recording of a song written by Brian been available for use on MIH, he would have pushed for its inclusion (for, among other reasons, the royalties) rather than scraping together old Freddie solo tracks to make them “Queen”.  If a Freddie version existed, the fact that it had already appeared on Brian’s solo album wouldn’t alone be a reason to not include it, as multiple other MIH tracks had already been released thorough various members’ solo/side projects.)

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Just saying: you are aware that it's on Highlander's background music and that there's at least one good, convincing fan remaster of it, aren't you? Not quite a proper studio version but it's the next best thing.