2024 Queen Release Rumour Mill

We knew the Miracle box set was on the way for about four years. Everyone predicted it.

They'd been doing teases of Miracle stuff for a really long time before that. I think pretty much everybody in my circles (namely The Queen Discord) knew it was coming eventually.

My personal theory? Brian and Roger decided to turn Face It Alone from one of the unfinished demos into a complete single, which meant delaying the boxset. Then, COVID prevented Brian and Roger from recording in a studio. That's why The Miracle boxset took so long. Again, just my theory but it'd make sense with the timeline we have.

On that note, I really think they chose the wrong song to finish. I Guess We're Falling Out seems to be the fan favourite from what I've seen. My personal favourite, too. Face It Alone honestly sucks.

My tinfoil hat theory is that they tried to ride the "new undiscovered song made by a dead artist" wave by editing and stitching horribly together bits of a song that was already circulating for 10 years, but that's my cynical point of view.

To be honest I never liked FIA that much, I prefer the instrumental guitar demo more, but despite all the work (and the horrible pitch correction) they put in the single it still sounds like a unfinished song, meanwhile IGWFO despite being a demo sounds more developed and "complete", so to speak. 

And yet you name drop the 9th track of the 1st album! You never know... some day... one day... that box may indeed come to light.

The next release should be the updated version of LIVE Killers in my opinion. With all the missed out songs. This could be a great package. It probably wont be the next though.

Thin Lizzy recently put out a box set of their Live and Dangerous album consisting of the album plus the seven shows they recorded to make it, sans the overdubs and edits made for the original album.

It’s a pie in the sky dream, but something like that from Queen for Live Killers would be immense.

They should just release a huge Queen live in 1979 box with several dvd's and a lot of audio (several Live Killers shows AND several Crazy tour shows, all complete shows).

While Freddie wasn't in elite vocal shape during the Live Killers tour, I still consider it one of the best tours in their history. The shows were so rocky and energetic. Brian - Roger - John never sounded better and more exciting together.

They really have been knocking it out of the park over the last few years. The Rock Legends set (when we finally got it!) was a goldmine, the Sydney concert with Gary was a genuine holy grail release of mine and the L&D box set was magnificent, and that’s despite my initial reservations over whether I needed multiple copies of broadly similar shows (I did).

Even the last box for Vagabonds of the Western World, which I passed on because there just wasn’t enough new material that interested me, looked like a solid set - it was only let down by the fact they’ve had so many other stellar releases that included most of the material already (and the fact I’ve personally no interest in or need of surround mixes).

I suppose at some point they will release Rio. I don't think it comes down to which concert sounded better, it's about flexing. 40 years later people still talk about the huge audience, about Love Of My Life sung by everyone being a high point both in their career (I suppose they forgot about their own tour less than 4 years to the same continent...?) and in Rock in Rio's story, and so on. 

Most concerts they've released were broadcasted on TV back in the day, and the couple that weren't (Rainbow and Hammersmith) were actually shown in cinemas. I guess they really make a big deal about these things. Both Rio nights were broadcasted on TV.

I'd bet they'd include snippets from other Works concerts (I'd bet higher on Japan, as it was already released...) as DVD/Blu-Ray bonuses, and I wouldn't completely rule out the possibility of including QAL videos too, as they played RiR both in Rio (on the festival's 30th anniversary!) and Lisbon. Although they've never mixed old Queen stuff and QAL stuff on the same release, there's some storytelling there to validate it, plus the appeal to sell the set both to old fans like we all and to the new and younger fans who are having their first Queen experiences through QAL.

all great releases. the bbc box set, too, was a brilliant one.

I opted for the stand alone blu ray of Vagabonds....even there; a high res 5.1 of a studio album. I've been waiting 20 + years for Queen to follow up Opera / The Game in surround......

agree 110%.

almost forgot about the 2cd deluxe editions. Some of them with great great content.

I wonder what else is coming - I hope Vagabonds...is the first in a series of forthcoming surround releases. If they can do Vagabonds, surely they can do Jailbreak and some of the other bigger albums

Purely out of curiosity, given that your trigger applies equally to four albums, why have you picked that one to extrapolate to?  

Edit -five albums - maybe Live At The Odeon ITSELF is getting an anniversary release - 9 is a nice round number, after all....

Are the balloons out of print?

Honestly I'm not optimistic nor did I choose that specific album for a reason just kinda weird suddenly after all these years stuff from Rainbow and Odeon videos go private on their page. Though this is QPL I expect ziltch from them at this point. I expect this more a coincidence rather then anything concrete. I've just decided that QPL don't really make any sort of sense in their decision making that way I don't expect anything and am not let down by them.