The piece, a simple ballad, was rescued from the sessions of ‘The Miracle’, the singer’s penultimate album in life
A few slow kick drum hits, dum… dum dum… dum… dum dum… With a huge reverb. Brian May enters with the guitar in a sequence of arpeggios reminiscent of ‘Nothing Else Matters’, the song Metallica released in 1991. And then the voice of Freddie Mercury begins, which we miss so much. Rough and serious at first, almost as if it tears and breaks the silence, then powerful and brilliant, with that characteristic way of giving the highest notes. That’s how melancholic is ‘Face it Alone’, which would have been translated as ‘Face it alone’.
This is the first song Queen has released with Freddie Mercury in 8 years as the band recorded three previously unheard songs with Mercury on their 2014 album ‘Queen Forever’, ‘Let Me In Your Heart Again’, ‘Love Kills’ and “There Must Be More To Life Than This,” although they’ve featured in other Mercury solo works. The subject was found when the band’s production and archive team delved into the recording sessions of 1988, the year the group entered the studio to record “The Miracle” (1989), the penultimate full-length the formation together. with the singer. in life. It was a prolific period, during which Mercury created some thirty songs, many of which did not see the light and were left without the final version of the album.
The release of this song, which actually speaks of loneliness, precedes the release on November 18 of the collector’s edition of ‘The Miracle’, a work that will be available in two formats: a deluxe edition, with two CDs and a prize for 21.99 euros, and an eight-disc Collector’s Edition (a vinyl, five CDs, a DVD and a Blu-ray) containing, in addition to the original work, original takes, demos, cuts and six unreleased tracks, as well as audio of intimate conversations between the band who work in the London and Montreux studios. His price? €159.99.
It was Brian May and Roger Taylor, guitarist and drummer for the band, respectively, who revealed the song’s existence in an interview for BBC radio. Taylor then commented that it was “a little Freddie gem that we barely remembered. It’s amazing, a real find. It’s a passionate subject.”
May, for her part, described the song as “very beautiful and moving”. “I’m glad our team found this song. After so many years, it’s great to hear the four of us… Yes, Deacy – he says in reference to bassist John Deacon, who left the band after the release of ‘Made in Heaven’ in 1995- is also included in the recording of this brilliant idea that it was never finished…until now!”
Source: La Verdad
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