Posted on 10/13/2022 6:08:05 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor first told fans about a new Queen track this summer — now it’s here.
Driving the new: For the first time in eight years, rock group Queen released new music with late frontman Freddy Mercury’s vocals, CNN reported. The track, “Face It Alone,” was originally recorded during the late 1980s but didn’t make the cut for their album, “The Miracle.”
“We’d kind of forgotten about this track,” Taylor said in a statement. “But there it was, this little gem. It’s wonderful, a real discovery. It’s a very passionate piece.”The track was discovered as Queen’s archive and production team worked on putting together the band box set reissue of the band’s 13th studio album, which will release Nov 18, according to Entertainment Weekly.“Queen The Miracle Collector’s Edition,” the upcoming reissue, will include five more unreleased songs as well as rough takes and recorded conversation between the bandmates at work.
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They were unique.
Today’s music pales in comparison to performers like Freddy Mercury.
Who is the modern Freddy Mercury? Or Elvis? Or Frank Sinatra?
There are none.
yep
Thanks for posting! I watched one or two documentaries on Queen. Both were really good.
They’re all gone.
Wait. I’ve got it.
I’ll be sullen and withdrawn.
I’ll dwindle off into the twilight realm of my own secret thoughts
I’ll lay on my back here ‘til dawn
In a semi-catatonic state
And dream of guitar notes
That would irritate
An executive kinda guy...
Saw them at Irvine Meadows in the early 80’s? Actually, went to see Billy Squier who was opening for them. If I remember correctly, we were in the fifth row, center stage. I became a fan that night. The only problem I have with the way that band is remembered, Brian May was every bit as much of that experience as Freddy Mercury. As I recall that concert, May’s guitar work is what stands out in my mind.
Who is the modern Freddy Mercury? Or Elvis? Or Frank Sinatra?
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Music now has become corporatized, homogenized, safe, and ultimately forgettable.
There is none all modern music is trash
As it always has been.
I remember distinctly the first time I heard Queen. I was about 12 and often I would go to my best friend’s house after school. We would sit on the floor and play records on a portable phonograph. My buddy just had to play this new album his older brother got, Night at the Opera. We played it over and over again … until his brother caught us.
Gee!!!. Her body is hardly cold.
Queen’s 80’s stuff was meh. Actually Innuendo was the best album they did since the 70s. Freddy gave it all he had.
I thought she died a few weeks ago??
A great band singing abut this.
Nice.
Thank you for that link.
An incredible voice.
I like this rediscovered Queen song; but the lyric content has a long history of people who faced great hardship. Here is an upbeat folk version of the forerunner of the lyrics:
Mississippi John Hurt - You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley (Live)
And here is a stirring a capella version by the Fairfield Four, reminiscent of its origin as a slave work song:
My pleasure.
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