Queen find more Freddie Mercury demos than originally thought

Brian May discusses upcoming release

Queen star Brian May has discussed plans to release 'new' Queen material, which will feature previously unheard vocals from Freddie Mercury, hinting that it could rival some of the band's best ever work.
The legendary band are currently working on a new record, after the discovery of Freddie Mercury demos. May has revealed his surprise at the quantity of the vocals tracks and the quality of the unheard music.
"There's more in there than we thought, in the Queen source archive. We've found some Freddie vocals, some demos," says May in a new interviewwith MOJO magazine.
"If we find an analogue 24-track of Freddie singing something that never got finished, the first thing we do is transfer it into the digital domain."
"We make the copy at the highest resolution you can. Then we start weaving our tapestry."
However, despite the recently unearthed material, May revealed that he is uncertain if they have found enough to warrant a full album release, adding: "I'm a little nervous of saying there's an album there, but there's certainly a few tracks."
"So at the moment we're working on spinning some new music around those, which is what we did for the Made in Heaven album, which was possibly the best Queen album we ever made."

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[QUOTE] [b]mickyparise wrote:[/b]

Brian May discusses upcoming release

Queen star Brian May has discussed plans to release 'new' Queen material, which will feature previously unheard vocals from Freddie Mercury, hinting that it could rival some of the band's best ever work.
The legendary band are currently working on a new record, after the discovery of Freddie Mercury demos. May has revealed his surprise at the quantity of the vocals tracks and the quality of the unheard music.
"There's more in there than we thought, in the Queen source archive. We've found some Freddie vocals, some demos," says May in a new interviewwith MOJO magazine.
"If we find an analogue 24-track of Freddie singing something that never got finished, the first thing we do is transfer it into the digital domain."
"We make the copy at the highest resolution you can. Then we start weaving our tapestry."
However, despite the recently unearthed material, May revealed that he is uncertain if they have found enough to warrant a full album release, adding: "I'm a little nervous of saying there's an album there, but there's certainly a few tracks."
"So at the moment we're working on spinning some new music around those, which is what we did for the Made in Heaven album, which was possibly the best Queen album we ever made."

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Thanks for this. I don't know what to think but I think we need another one Made in Heaven with more than three unheard songs that was on Made in Heaven 1995.

a 24 track reel filled with freddie's vocals ?
best news for ages !

Interesting that the MJ tracks arent mentioned. Problem with release rights? Personally,I couldn't give a monkey's if they're included on the album or not,except maybe Victory as its 'unheard'. TMBMTLTT is average and better without MJ and as for State of Shock,it's a poor B-)side MJ track at best. Bring on Face it alone,New York,Affairs,A new life is born,Man made Paradise etc etc and forget MJ.

Bring out the best unheard demo's of mercury and add some reworked well known tracks , or tracks from solo.
Love makin 'love , Love kills will also be a good alternative.....

[QUOTE] [b]jondickens1 wrote:[/b]

Interesting that the MJ tracks arent mentioned. Problem with release rights? Personally,I couldn't give a monkey's if they're included on the album or not,except maybe Victory as its 'unheard'. TMBMTLTT is average and better without MJ and as for State of Shock,it's a poor B-)side MJ track at best. Bring on Face it alone,New York,Affairs,A new life is born,Man made Paradise etc etc and forget MJ.[/QUOTE]



Brian mentioned not long ago that they are worked on a three tracks duets FM&MJ.

+ Brian has an own project, probably called Let me in your heart again.
I thought Roger also had a song he worked on, but I'm not quite sure about this.

[QUOTE] [b]MrFunster wrote:[/b]

+ Brian has an own project, probably called Let me in your heart again.
I thought Roger also had a song he worked on, but I'm not quite sure about this.[/QUOTE]


Wait and see. Something tells me that some tracks from Freddie Mercury solo will be used for new album, I do mean those tracks for example love making love, holding on, etc...

[QUOTE] [b]princetom wrote:[/b]

a 24 track reel filled with freddie's vocals ?
best news for ages ! [/QUOTE]

i don't think he said that.

my reservation is at Brian's "surprise" at how much there is....could this just be another bit of QPL "hyperbole"? or did Brian really have no idea what they had?

i find it hard to believe he didn't know....it's not as if they didn't go thru all the archives before (1994/95)...or does his memory expire after 18 years?

Made in Heaven was decent, and a nice swansong given what they had to work with. But if Brian thinks that is their best album, he is off his fucking rocker.

[QUOTE] [b]Pingfah wrote:[/b]

Made in Heaven was decent, and a nice swansong given what they had to work with. But if Brian thinks that is their best album, he is off his fucking rocker.[/QUOTE]

That's the only 'album' where Brian could do as he pleased without having to compromise with Freddie.

Made in heaven was started by Roger and John while brian was doing his solo tour, when brian got into the studio he virtually scrapped everything they had done ! That's why he feels it's their best album, and also why Roger doesn't want anything to do with these unearthed tracks, very much Brian's project I feel. Incidentally ,sheer heart attack, best album for me, the one I most listen to from beginning to end.

Don't know the man, only what I read and deduct from reading and watching vids. Sebastian, you said exactly what I thought. Yet, BM is still riding the Freddie train. He just cant seem to gain the adoration he wants. Sad. We can only hope that new Freddie vocals will see the light of day, just the thought of it makes me smile. Honestly, no other band has ever captured me before quite like this...and I haven't followed them the way so many of you have for years and years. Must be so disappointing to have your hopes dashed time and time again. If nothing else, and as many have said, you would think they would have released any and all recordings of Freddie for the loyal fans. Maybe it's simply a control issue? I still think that if it were up to Roger, it would have been done long ago!

I think a new Queen studio l.p. should be done but only after a Queen + studio l.p. and tour are done first! I think a new studio l.p. of and by Queen with Freddie's vocals should be released in 2015 instead!

[QUOTE] [b]AlexRocks wrote:[/b]

I think a new Queen studio l.p. should be done but only after a Queen + studio l.p. and tour are done first! I think a new studio l.p. of and by Queen with Freddie's vocals should be released in 2015 instead![/QUOTE]

Summer 2014