{"id":4628,"date":"2014-09-19T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T12:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/09\/19\/queen-reveals-details-about-the-new-album-featuring-unheard-mercury-tracks\/"},"modified":"2014-09-19T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T12:25:19","slug":"queen-reveals-details-about-the-new-album-featuring-unheard-mercury-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/09\/19\/queen-reveals-details-about-the-new-album-featuring-unheard-mercury-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen reveals details about the new album featuring unheard Mercury tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"


Queen Forever, a new CD collection from Queen, will be released on 10 November. As previously reported<\/a>, the album will feature unreleased Freddie Mercury tracks, including the Queen frontman\u2019s collaboration with Michael Jackson, There Must Be More to Life Than This. <\/p>\n

The concept for this album was shaped after Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor discovered a stash of unreleased material in the Queen source archive. Although May had hoped to release the songs last year, they \u201cfound a few more tracks with Freddie singing and all of us playing\u201d, he recently told BBC Radio Wales<\/a>. \u201cThey are quite beautiful \u2026 [and they have] the big, big ballads and the big, big epic sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

The release will include unfinished Mercury-Queen track Let Me in Your Heart Again, a never-before completed song taken from The Works album recording sessions, and a stripped-down interpretation of Mercury\u2019s Giorgio Moroder collaboration, Love Kills, a song originally recorded for the soundtrack to Moroder\u2019s restored version of Fritz Lang\u2019s Metropolis.<\/p>\n

Audio of the featured Michael Jackson duet has since surfaced online<\/a> following its airing on BBC Radio 2 today. A MOR, feel-good ballad produced by William Orbit, the song was written by Mercury during sessions for Queen\u2019s 1981 album, Hot Space, and a version of it featured on Freddie\u2019s debut solo album, Mr Bad Guy, in 1985.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I first played it in my studio, I opened a trove of delights provided by the greatest of musicians,\u201d Orbit said of the track. \u201cHearing Michael Jackson\u2019s vocals was stirring. So vivid, so cool, and poignant, it was like he was in the studio singing live. With Freddie\u2019s vocal solo on the mixing desk, my appreciation for his gift was taken to an even higher level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aside from the Mercury tracks, the rest of the release, assembled by May and Taylor, will include Queen hits, classic tracks, and alternative takes of well-known songs, matched with band recordings May describes as \u201cthings that we have collected together that are representative of our growth rather than the big hits\u201d, including 1977\u2019s Long Away, the only Queen single to feature May on lead vocals, and B-side Drowse, which includes a rare Queen performance from Taylor on guitar.<\/p>\n

Queen\u2019s Greatest Hits album was confirmed as Britain\u2019s bestselling album of all time by the UK\u2019s Official Charts Company earlier this year, after surpassing the 6m sales milestone. Their Greatest Hits II, released in October 1991, also reached No 10 in the all-time Official Albums Chart.<\/p>\n

Queen Forever \u2013 Track Listings<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Single CD:<\/p>\n

Let Me in Your Heart Again<\/p>\n

Love Kills \u2013 The Ballad<\/p>\n

There Must Be More To Life Than This (William Orbit Mix)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a Hard Life<\/p>\n

You\u2019re My Best Friend<\/p>\n

Love of My Life<\/p>\n

Drowse<\/p>\n

Long Away<\/p>\n

Lily of the Valley<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Try So Hard<\/p>\n

Bijou<\/p>\n

These Are the Days of Our Lives<\/p>\n

Las Palabras de Amor<\/p>\n

Who Wants to Live Forever<\/p>\n

A Winter\u2019s Tale<\/p>\n

Play the Game<\/p>\n

Save Me<\/p>\n

Somebody to Love<\/p>\n

Too Much Love Will Kill You<\/p>\n

Crazy Little Thing Called Love<\/p>\n

2-CD SET<\/strong><\/h2>\n

CD1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let Me in Your Heart Again<\/p>\n

Love Kills \u2013 the Ballad<\/p>\n

There Must Be More to Life Than This (William Orbit Mix)<\/p>\n

Play the Game<\/p>\n

Dear Friends<\/p>\n

You\u2019re My Best Friend<\/p>\n

Love of My Life<\/p>\n

Drowse<\/p>\n

You Take My Breath Away<\/p>\n

Spread Your Wings<\/p>\n

Long Away<\/p>\n

Lily of the Valley<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Try So Hard<\/p>\n

Bijou<\/p>\n

These Are the Days of Our Lives<\/p>\n

Nevermore<\/p>\n

Las Palabras de Amor<\/p>\n

Who Wants to Live Forever<\/p>\n

CD2<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I Was Born to Love You<\/p>\n

Somebody to Love<\/p>\n

Crazy Little Thing Called Love<\/p>\n

Friends Will Be Friends<\/p>\n

Jealousy<\/p>\n

One Year of Love<\/p>\n

A Winters Tale<\/p>\n

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Mother Love<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a Hard Life<\/p>\n

Save Me<\/p>\n

Made in Heaven<\/p>\n

Too Much Love Will Kill You<\/p>\n

Sail Away Sweet Sister<\/p>\n

The Miracle<\/p>\n

Is This the World We Created<\/p>\n

In the Lap of the Gods \u2026 Revisited<\/p>\n

Forever<\/p>\n

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Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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