Freddie Mercury performs with Queen. Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns.
Queen have released "Face It Alone," a previously unheard song the English rock band recorded with Freddie Mercury in 1989. The song was one of 30 tracked for The Miracle, Queen's second-to-last album with Mercury before the singer died in 1991 of AIDS complications.
The band's Brian May and Roger Taylor first revealed the song's existence in May during a BBC interview and in June set a tentative release for September. Queen initially thought that the song had been lost, but it was rediscovered by the band's team as preparations for a deluxe edition of Miracle went underway.
“We’d kind of forgotten about this track,” Taylor says in a press release for the song “but there it was, this little gem. It’s wonderful, a real discovery. It’s a very passionate piece.” May credited the band's archivists for finding the track: "After all these years, it’s great to hear all four of us … yes, Deacy is there too … working in the studio on a great song idea which never quite got completed ... until now!”
The Miracle's eight-disc deluxe edition is out on November 18 and will include an album called The Miracle Sessions, which sports demos and five other previously unreleased songs. Listen to "Face It Alone" below.
