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The music group Queen has published this Thursday
Face It Alone
, an unreleased song from 1988 that the band recorded when its leader, Freddie Mercury, was still alive.
The subject passed through the study 34 years ago and was to be part of great successes such as
I Want It All
on the album
The Miracle
(1989).
On November 18, the British band will release a reissue of their 13th album, the penultimate of the group with Mercury in life,
Queen The Miracle Collector's Edition
, an album for collectors that includes six more unreleased songs and the so-called
The Miracle Sessions,
various recordings of the group in the studio during the creative process between 1987 and 1989.
Face It Alone
is the first song published with the voice of Freddie Mercury since eight years ago, when the group included
three previously unheard songs with Mercury's voice on the album
Queen Forever (2014),
Let Me In Your Heart Again, Love Kills
and
There Must Be More To Life Than This
.
Guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor revealed the existence of
Face It Alone
in an interview for BBC radio after Queen Elizabeth II's Jubilee concert last June.
“We had almost forgotten about her,” Taylor confessed.
This last single was one of about 30 recorded during
The Miracle's songwriting sessions.
After making the decision to reissue this album, the band members listened to the recordings from those years again and rediscovered some of these songs.
The song, which in just five hours has exceeded 300,000 views on YouTube, begins with a guitar pick and maintains a solemn and sad tone for the four minutes it lasts.
By the time the band recorded this tune, Freddie Mercury was already sick with AIDS and passed away two years after the release of
The Miracle.
Brian May defines it as a "very beautiful and moving" theme.
The members of Queen explain in the release statement the difficult task that was to recover all the fragments of the recording of
Face it Alone.
May describes the process like this: “We gave it a lot of thought and thought we couldn't rescue it.
But in the end, after insisting, our team of sound engineers succeeded.
It has been like putting together the pieces of a puzzle and something very beautiful has been left”.
The album
The Miracle
is one of the most successful albums of the British band.
It managed to carve out a niche for itself in the global market: it topped the charts in Europe and managed to win a gold record in the US, as well as being named after Brian May's favorite song.