Freddie Mercury's collaborations with other artists

Ahh okay. Thanks
The 05:09 Version is new to me. I think it's the same as on "Past Perfect". After Freddie's intro Billy Squier's singing part starts immediately. 
Edit: * I didn't saw you second post. Alright

Hi!

This is a complete list of Freddie's collaborations with other artists, included the songs you cited.

As a musician:

1) 1976: "Man From Manhattan" single by Eddie Howell.
A song recorded at Sarm East Studios in London in August 1975 with Freddie on backing vocals and piano and Brian May on guitar and backing vocals; Freddie also produced the track. Released by Warner Bros. in March 1976.

2) 1976: "All American Alien Boy" album by Ian Hunter.
Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople invited Queen to join in his solo album: Freddie, Brian and Roger recorded backing vocals for the song "You Nearly Did Me In" at Electric Lady Studios in New York City on 9th February 1976 (they were there on tour at the time).

3) 1982: "Emotions In Motion" album by Billy Squier.
Freddie sang backing vocals on the song "Emotions In Motion", recorded at Musicland Studios in Munich in the same period of Queen's "Hot Space"; Roger Taylor also performed. The album, produced by Mack, was released on 23rd July 1982 by Capitol Records.

4) 1983: recording sessions with Michael Jackson.
In 1983, during Queen's hiatus year from touring, Freddie Mercury met with Michael Jackson and recorded together a few songs. The songs "Victory", "There Must Be More To Life Than This" and "State Of Shock" were born during that sessions, but none of the three songs was completed and released. "There Must Be More To Life Than This" was written entirely by Mercury in 1981 for "Hot Space" but was discarded from that album; it was recovered for the album "The Works" but was discarded again. It was definetely recorded by Freddie alone and included on his first solo album "Mr. Bad Guy" in 1985. "State Of Shock" was later re-recorded by the Jacksons and Mick Jagger and included on the "Victory" album released in July 1984, but a version sang by Mercury and Jackson was made avalaible over the years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax3FOTiWwz0.
Only in November 2014, when "Queen Forever" compilation album was released by Virgin EMI Records, a Queen version of "There Must Be More To Life Than This" containing the voices of Mercury and Jackson was finally released: it contained the bass guitar played by Deacon (recorded in 1981) and new guitar and drum parts recorded in 2013 and 2014 by May and Taylor.

5) 1984: "Strange Frontier" by Roger Taylor.
Some sources claims that Freddie sang backing vocals on Roger Taylor's track "Killing Time", included on his second album "Strange Frontier". He certainly participated in the recording sessions of the album and recorded backing vocals on a cover of "Keep On Running" by Jackie Edwards (made popular by The Spencer Davis Group), which unfortunately remained off the record. You can listen it here though: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Ni7ATEFKo (the 'hey, hey, hey!' is clearly Freddie!)

6) 1986: "Hold On" duet with Jo Dare.
Mercury co-wrote the song "Hold On" with producer Reinhold Mack for the German film 'Zabou'; the track was sung by Freddie and singer Jo Dare and was also released as a promo single in Germany in 1987.

7) 1986: "Enough Is Enough" album by Billy Squier.
Freddie sang backing vocals on the song "Lady With A Tenor Sax" (co-written with Squier) and "Love Is The Hero", in which he also took care of the arrangement; in the extended version of the latter song (released at the time on maxi single), Freddie also played the piano introduction in which he sang as a lead vocalist. The album was released on 27th September 1986.
During the recording sessions of the album, a version of "Lady With A Tenor Sax" with Freddie and Billy on lead vocals was also recorded: it turned out incomplete, but it was finished and officially released on Mercury's album "The Solo Collection" on 23rd October 2000.

8) 1988: "Shove It!" album by The Cross.
Mercury recorded lead vocals on the song "Heaven For Everyone", written by Roger Taylor and released on The Cross' debut album. He also performed backing vocals in the single version of the song, in which Roger had the role of lead vocalist. In the US version of the album, another song called "Feel The Force" was also included, in which Mercury sang backing vocals. 
The vocal track recorded by Mercury for "Heaven For Everyone" was later used for the Queen version of the song, which appeared in 1995 on the album "Made In Heaven".


As a producer:

1) 1975: together with Queen, Freddie produced a recording session with a band called Trax. Nothing was released.

2) 1977: "This One's On Me" album by Peter Straker.
Freddie took care of the production of this album by his dear friend Peter Straker, sharing the credit with Roy Thomas Baker. In addition, he apparently sang backing vocals on some songs. 

For obvious reasons I didn't include "Barcelona"; it was his second solo album. I wanted to present the collaborations with other artists.

i think you're wrong about this. it [Barcelona] is not a solo LP. it is officially billed/sold as:
Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona

the thread title clearly states "Collaborations" and your initial reply also states "collaborations"


however, you then list only projects where Freddie was a guest. Barcelona (and everything associated with it) is 100% a collaboration. i think (as others have pointed out) your list needs updating.

Here's the uploaded list as requested:

As a musician:

1) 1976: "Man From Manhattan" single by Eddie Howell.
A song recorded at Sarm East Studios in London in August 1975 with Freddie on backing vocals and piano and Brian May on guitar and backing vocals; Freddie also produced the track. Released by Warner Bros. in March 1976.

2) 1976: "All American Alien Boy" album by Ian Hunter.
Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople invited Queen to join in his solo album: Freddie, Brian and Roger recorded backing vocals for the song "You Nearly Did Me In" at Electric Lady Studios in New York City on 9th February 1976 (they were there on tour at the time).

3) 1982: "Emotions In Motion" album by Billy Squier.
Freddie sang backing vocals on the song "Emotions In Motion", recorded at Musicland Studios in Munich in the same period of Queen's "Hot Space"; Roger Taylor also performed. The album, produced by Mack, was released on 23rd July 1982 by Capitol Records.

4) 1983: recording sessions with Michael Jackson.
In 1983, during Queen's hiatus year from touring, Freddie Mercury met with Michael Jackson and recorded together a few songs. The songs "Victory", "There Must Be More To Life Than This" and "State Of Shock" were born during that sessions, but none of the three songs was completed and released. "There Must Be More To Life Than This" was written entirely by Mercury in 1981 for "Hot Space" but was discarded from that album; it was recovered for the album "The Works" but was discarded again. It was definetely recorded by Freddie alone and included on his first solo album "Mr. Bad Guy" in 1985. "State Of Shock" was later re-recorded by the Jacksons and Mick Jagger and included on the "Victory" album released in July 1984, but a version sang by Mercury and Jackson was made avalaible over the years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax3FOTiWwz0.
Only in November 2014, when "Queen Forever" compilation album was released by Virgin EMI Records, a Queen version of "There Must Be More To Life Than This" containing the voices of Mercury and Jackson was finally released: it contained the bass guitar played by Deacon (recorded in 1981) and new guitar and drum parts recorded in 2013 and 2014 by May and Taylor.

5) 1984: "Strange Frontier" by Roger Taylor.
Some sources claims that Freddie provided backing vocals on Roger Taylor's track "Killing Time", included on his second album "Strange Frontier". He certainly participated in the recording sessions of the album and recorded backing vocals on a cover of "Keep On Running" by Jackie Edwards (made popular by The Spencer Davis Group), which unfortunately remained off the record. You can listen it here though: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Ni7ATEFKo (the 'hey, hey, hey!' is clearly Freddie!)

6) 1986: "Hold On" duet with Jo Dare.
Mercury co-wrote the song "Hold On" with producer Reinhold Mack for the German film 'Zabou'; the track was sung by Freddie and singer Jo Dare and was also released as a promo single in Germany in 1987. Other musicians who performed on the track are unknown.

7) 1986: "Enough Is Enough" album by Billy Squier.
Freddie sang backing vocals on the song "Lady With A Tenor Sax" (co-written with Squier) and "Love Is The Hero", in which he also took care of the arrangement; in the extended version of the latter song (released at the time on maxi single), Freddie also played the piano introduction in which he sang as a lead vocalist. The album was released on 27th September 1986.
During the recording sessions of the album, a version of "Lady With A Tenor Sax" with Freddie and Billy on lead vocals was also recorded: it turned out incomplete, but it was finished and officially released on Mercury's album "The Solo Collection" on 23rd October 2000.

8) 1988: "Shove It!" album by The Cross.
Mercury recorded lead vocals on the song "Heaven For Everyone", written by Roger Taylor and released on The Cross' debut album. He also performed backing vocals in the single version of the song, in which Roger had the role of lead vocalist. In the US version of the album, another song called "Feel The Force" was also included, in which Mercury sang backing vocals.
The vocal track recorded by Mercury for "Heaven For Everyone" was later used for the Queen version of the song, which appeared in 1995 on the album "Made In Heaven".

9) 1988: "Barcelona" album by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé.
Freddie wrote all the songs on the album (with Mike Moran - "The Fallen Priest" and "The Golden Boy" were also credited to Tim Rice, while "Ensueño" also to Caballé), played piano and provided arrangements; Moran took care of keyboards, programming and arrangements too. John Deacon also collaborated playing bass guitar in the song "How Can I Go On". Released by Polydor on 10th October 1988.


As a producer:

1) 1975: together with Queen, Freddie produced a recording session with a band called Trax. Nothing was released.

2) 1977: "This One's On Me" album by Peter Straker.
Freddie took care of the production of this album by his dear friend Peter Straker, sharing the credit with Roy Thomas Baker. In addition, he apparently sang backing vocals on some songs.

Yeah, but Freddie didn't appear on "Victory" at all.

When Queen production agreed with MJ estate about TMBMTLTT, they singed that the State of shock Queen or FM version with MJ is for MJ future project/release. Otherwise Queen couldn't release TMBMTLTT.

It's anonymous.

According to a source close to Freddie, who wants to remain anonymous, Freddie played the original drums on Thriller, but declined credit as they were then resampled and sequenced by Quincy Jones.

Hey, this is fun!

I have played this a few times now and Im kind of struggling to hear Freddie. It is a great song by Andrew Gold. According to Wikipedia John David Souther and Timothy B Schmidt are on this too.


Never Let Her Slip Away (Wiki link)