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Post by PHT on Jun 6, 2022 17:42:19 GMT
Queen is going to release a new song this autumn featuring singer Freddie Mercury. The song has been on the shelf for years, until band members Roger Taylor and Brian May recently came across it again. They told about the find on BBC Radio 2 this weekend. The drummer and guitarist of the British band came across the song by chance when they were digging through their archives. The track dates back to when the album The Miracle was recorded in 1989. "We found a gem from Freddie that we had actually kind of forgotten about," Taylor said. "But it's beautiful, a real find." According to May, the gem from Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991, "was just hidden in plain sight. We looked at it several times, but then thought: no, we can't release that." However, the band's engineering team was able to do something with it, eventually allowing the song to be released in September. "It was like sewing patches together," says the guitarist, who goes on to call the song "beautiful and moving". www.nu.nl/muziek/6204991/queen-gaat-geheim-gebleven-nummer-met-freddie-mercury-uitbrengen.htmlEdit to include source link - LF
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Post by Steve on Jun 6, 2022 18:22:30 GMT
I really hope this is something new!
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Post by Steve on Jun 6, 2022 18:24:38 GMT
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Post by qsmjohn on Jun 6, 2022 18:50:13 GMT
hm, this sounds indeed interesting. The question is, wether its sth we never heard before or a demo like IGWFO or Face It Alone...?
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 6, 2022 19:08:17 GMT
Anything will be interesting. The worry perhaps is that they've only mentioned one track, when we know there were several demos floating around. So, could this be something previously unheard, and they're ignoring all the demos, or are they picking one of the known demos and ignoring the rest? Let's hope they haven't tried to stitch two or three songs together.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 6, 2022 19:18:13 GMT
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Post by dysan on Jun 6, 2022 19:24:47 GMT
I remember when I first heard Face It Alone in the mid-noughties, just a 60 second snippet released on QZ erroneously said to be the last thing Freddie recorded. The murky quality, the astounding little haunting guitar melody which I guess is technically the first chorus, emotive sketched out vocal, probably the remnants of too much cider in my system from the night before and the airless heat of the day was just too much. I f*cking wept, man.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 6, 2022 19:36:18 GMT
Whether it does or whether it doesn't, the song title is clearly going to be linked to Freddie's illness.
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Post by bananawig on Jun 6, 2022 19:40:38 GMT
I wonder where they've gotten that information from!? It wasn't mentioned in the Zoe Ball interview. Also it seems quite odd that they'd "pluck" such a title out of thin air - it doesn't strike me either that there'd be hardcore fan-type knowledge at NME (as in I doubt they'd already be aware of FIA).
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Post by westschinken on Jun 6, 2022 19:45:46 GMT
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Post by pokemaniacjunk on Jun 6, 2022 20:16:02 GMT
Since Brian and Roger seem to be saying how this song was sewed together from pieces then maybe this project is a Made In Heaven 2.0 rather than a box set for The Miracle.
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Post by dave76 on Jun 6, 2022 21:16:21 GMT
Since Brian and Roger seem to be saying how this song was sewed together from pieces then maybe this project is a Made In Heaven 2.0 rather than a box set for The Miracle. If that's the case, i'm down for that too. If they have some stuff left to work, maybe a second kinda Made In Heaven is possible but i guess it will be just the one track.
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Post by Golden Salmon on Jun 6, 2022 21:25:17 GMT
An interview at the BBC today? Do we have that source? Bummer if it's "Face It Alone", but whatever they came up with, it will be much more polished than all the demos we already have. That said, I feel it won't seem as much of a full song like the released "Let Me In Your Heart Again" version.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Jun 6, 2022 21:25:29 GMT
Since Brian and Roger seem to be saying how this song was sewed together from pieces then maybe this project is a Made In Heaven 2.0 rather than a box set for The Miracle. Remade In Heaven ?
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Post by Golden Salmon on Jun 6, 2022 21:33:03 GMT
Since Brian and Roger seem to be saying how this song was sewed together from pieces then maybe this project is a Made In Heaven 2.0 rather than a box set for The Miracle. If that's the case, i'm down for that too. If they have some stuff left to work, maybe a second kinda Made In Heaven is possible but i guess it will be just the one track. queenchat.boards.net/post/5410/thread2013-11-28: Queen find more Freddie Mercury demos than originally thoughtBrian did say this almost 10 years ago. I don't think they considered there was so much left worth their time, or maybe they never cared to complete anything beyond a couple tracks.
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Post by The Fairy King on Jun 7, 2022 6:13:47 GMT
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 7, 2022 8:46:48 GMT
Above post merged. Guys, please check for existing threads before starting a new one. 🙂
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Post by The Fairy King on Jun 7, 2022 8:56:50 GMT
Above post merged. Guys, please check for existing threads before starting a new one. 🙂 I looked before i posted. Searching is a bitch, dear Lord Fickle. Please forgive my shortcomings.
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Post by emrabt on Jun 7, 2022 9:38:10 GMT
Since Brian and Roger seem to be saying how this song was sewed together from pieces then maybe this project is a Made In Heaven 2.0 rather than a box set for The Miracle. That's Brian's go to line about unreleased songs, "Pieced Together From Scraps" I wouldn't did too deeply into it.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Jun 7, 2022 10:47:03 GMT
Since Brian and Roger seem to be saying how this song was sewed together from pieces then maybe this project is a Made In Heaven 2.0 rather than a box set for The Miracle. That's Brian's go to line about unreleased songs, "Pieced Together From Scraps" I wouldn't did too deeply into it. exactly. this means nothing at all. One of the finest "sides" of any album anywhere [Abbey Rd] was pieced together from scraps. If the two fantastic Abbey Rd Side 2 Medleys were thus, then Brian and Roger (with all their modern electrickery) should be able to make these scraps sound great too.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2022 11:14:26 GMT
I'll be disappointed if it's Face It Alone - never did much for me. Is there really not a way to salvage a complete-ish version of I Guess We're Falling Out, a much better track?
Actually the main concern is just how much autotune will be on Freddie's vocal!
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 7, 2022 11:16:47 GMT
Moved to General Chat, as we don't really know what format this will take yet.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 7, 2022 11:23:50 GMT
I'll be disappointed if it's Face It Alone - never did much for me. Is there really not a way to salvage a complete-ish version of I Guess We're Falling Out, a much better track? Actually the main concern is just how much autotune will be on Freddie's vocal! In my opinion, any decent sounding track with a 'new' Freddie vocal is going to be a nice bonus. As long as they don't make him sound like Cher singing Believe, I really don't mind if it's tweaked a bit. I'd rather hear him 'in' tune than out of tune. My main concern is that they make us buy a huge box set with a load of tat we don't really want, just for one track that we do. Hopefully there will be a single release of the 'new' track, then we will see what the box set brings.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jun 7, 2022 11:29:31 GMT
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Post by mkstewartesq on Jun 7, 2022 11:35:06 GMT
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Post by dysan on Jun 7, 2022 11:55:04 GMT
I think in general, news sites get the hint of a new song and get the office junior to google what it could be. They found this forum and see 'Face It Alone' is mentioned so take that as the title of the new song and run with it in order to make their article stand out above all the others reporting the same. Then other outlets pick up on that and run with it too. Then we all report it back here and the merry dance continues. Next time someone mention 'Hang Man' early on just for lolz.
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Post by qsmjohn on Jun 7, 2022 12:15:08 GMT
I think in general, news sites get the hint of a new song and get the office junior to google what it could be. They found this forum and see 'Face It Alone' is mentioned so take that as the title of the new song and run with it in order to make their article stand out above all the others reporting the same. Then other outlets pick up on that and run with it too. Then we all report it back here and the merry dance continues. Next time someone mention 'Hang Man' early on just for lolz. Haha nice idea
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Jun 7, 2022 13:25:21 GMT
i wouldn't place any stock in a website whose url contains "feddie" rather than "Freddie". If they can't be bothered to get that right - then what else are they unconcerned with? truth? evidence? fact checking?
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Post by mkstewartesq on Jun 7, 2022 14:29:18 GMT
i wouldn't place any stock in a website whose url contains "feddie" rather than "Freddie". If they can't be bothered to get that right - then what else are they unconcerned with? truth? evidence? fact checking? Yes, let’s completely tar the journalistic credibility of one of the three most-respected entertainment industry news sources in the United States (along with Variety and the Hollywood Reporter) simply because an intern made a typo when creating a URL for the article to upload it to the website … As I stated, they didn’t provide any direct quotes naming the song as Face It Alone. At the same time, they have a very strong track record for accuracy. So while there is always a possibility that they are merely playing “the telephone game“, I suspect the truth is more likely that they got confirmation of that name from some other source that they consider credible, not just a Google search. But time will tell. Even the best journalists are not infallible. M
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