Queen will unveil a beforehand unreleased tune that includes Freddie Mercury titled “Face It Alone” on Thursday.
The band has been teasing the discharge with a sequence of billboards world wide that say “Queen – Face It Alone” and embrace an image Mercury and a QR code. The indicators first appeared in London and have since been noticed in Canada, Mexico, Japan and extra.
“Queen Followers! Have you ever seen the information? Preserve your eyes peeled & share your images of the place you’ve seen our Billboards utilizing #FaceItAlone,” Queen tweeted on Friday.
The band additionally shared a 15-second preview of the tune, which options Mercury singing, “Ultimately, in the long run, you must face it alone.”
Guitarist Brian Might and drummer Roger Taylor introduced over the summer season that “Face It Alone” would arrive in September. The monitor dates again to classes for the band’s 1989 album The Miracle.
“We did discover a bit of gem from Freddie, that we’d form of forgotten about,” Taylor informed BBC Radio 2 (by way of Stereogum). “And it was. It’s great. Really, it was an actual discovery.”
Might initially thought the recording was unsalvageable, however engineers proved him incorrect. “It was form of hiding in plain sight,” he mentioned. “We checked out it many instances and thought, ‘Oh, no, we will’t actually rescue that.’ However in reality, we went in there once more and our great engineering workforce went, ‘OK, we will do that and this.’ It’s like form of stitching bits collectively … however it’s lovely, It’s touching.”
The final new Queen music that includes Mercury got here out eight years in the past, when Might and Taylor included the Michael Jackson duet “There Should Be Extra to Life Than This” on the 2014 Queen Without end compilation. In 2019, a stripped-down model of Mercury’s 1986 solo single “Time” was additionally launched below the title “Time Waits for No One.”
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