Jackson estate being "difficult" over Mercury tracks

Queen drummer Roger Taylor says Michael Jackson's estate have been "difficult" to deal with over the release of his duet with Freddie Mercury.

The band hope to include it on upcoming album Queen Forever, but the King of Pop's estate are said to be dragging their feet over granting permission.

http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/2014-08-29/queen-frustrated-freddie-mercury-duet-michael-jackson

Don't give a f##k about the Jacko tracks, they're pretty poor anyway, we don't need them for this album, just quality Queen outtakes !

Have to agree. At least they only seem to be looking at one track.

Oh dear, this is really tiring. They keep changing the story. Initially, I think Brian mentioned possibly four duets, now Roger says it's one. What the hell! Nothing new about the Jackson family, they are all off their nut and it's common knowledge. I hope more than one song will be released. Fingers crossed for "Victory", as it appears to have been the most collaborative effort between them two. "State of Shock" doesn't really do it for me, "More to Life" is quite okay and should benefit from good production.

Lately all this story sounds like they are just preparing a ballads complitation, they gave us the hint that just one MJ song could be included in it, and I am thinking about the FM ballad featuring MJ.
And honestly I don't think it is so easy to release this album within the end of the year.

I couldn't care less about FM+MJ tracks, they are just good pop songs, nothing more.

Queek ballads compilation? No thanks, I'll definitively download it, unless they do a sort of MIH 2.

Unless they have some genuine surprises to offer, I think Queen Forever will pale into insignificance, when compared to the Rainbow release. There will be one or two tracks that might be worth having, and the rest will be the usual compilation stuff. One thing that would perhaps be nice is if they could give us the Freddie vocal version of WWTLF.

just shut up and show me the money... I care less about wacko jacko estate and his greedy family, can't stand his singing anyway, especially the parts where he makes the awful sounds, as if he was constipated and about to drop one to discover than shit ain't coming, so few verses later he makes the annoying sound again.

I don't think Roger is in a position to critisise the speed of Jackson's estate... Remember that Freddie guy whose songs QP are just now preparing to release? He died almost 20 years before Michael Jackson!

It's no wonder the Jackson estate doesn't hand over the release of these recordings to QP... They would be buried in the archive at least for the next 20 years, if it was up to QP!

Release the album without the Wacko Jacko traks, then leak them online when the album is out.

[QUOTE] [b]tero! 48531 wrote:[/b]I don't think Roger is in a position to critisise the speed of Jackson's estate... Remember that Freddie guy whose songs QP are just now preparing to release? He died almost 20 years before Michael Jackson! [/QUOTE]

To be fair, Michael didn't exactly want to play ball when they wanted to include the original demos on the FM boxset, so they had to wait at least 9 years or so after that for the tapes to be given to them after MJ's death.

Those money-grubbing carnies can keep their tracks as far as I'm concerned.

I can't stand anything by wacko Jacko or Jackson 5,i have nothing by them in my collection of 2,000 Cd's and if he was on the new Queen album to be honest it would put me off buying it.One of the most overated artists of all time.The girl is mine with Paul Mcartney is the most vomit making song i ever heard on Top Of The Pops.I think that Brian and Roger are in panic moad ,as they have not got enough material to make a good Queen album.Best to leave it alone,let us enjoy the Rainbow set and maybe do an album with just Roger and Brian in the new year if they can write some decent tunes.Its not as though they are skint and are desperate,unless of course the record company are putting some pressure on them to deliver something.

@ k-m they aren't changing the story... Roger said one MJ duet with FM, as it was previously stated that other duets feature Andy Gibb and Rod Stewart, but I advise this: don't believe it till you see it. Why the hell create new version of Let Me Live when it was officially released on MiH. Of course, there's always possibility that Freddie recorded another track with Rod Stewart. If this is indeed pre-Xmas release then the time of announcing press release of "Queen forever" is really close.
I'm curious what the promotional campaign will look like ? Maybe the album itself will be preceded by a single with released track on side A and unreleased on side B.

[QUOTE] [b]inu-liger wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]tero! 48531 wrote:[/b]I don't think Roger is in a position to critisise the speed of Jackson's estate... Remember that Freddie guy whose songs QP are just now preparing to release? He died almost 20 years before Michael Jackson! [/QUOTE]

To be fair, Michael didn't exactly want to play ball when they wanted to include the original demos on the FM boxset, so they had to wait at least 9 years or so after that for the tapes to be given to them after MJ's death.[/QUOTE]

To be absolutely fair, they managed to release an excellent box set of FM material even without those MJ tracks, and QP would have managed the same thing with Queen material anytime between 1992 - 2014 if they had wanted to.

Roger is only interested in the MJ tracks because of their commercial potential, but he doesn't actually get to decide what happens with them.

I have equal legal and moral rights to claim the tracks on a "Tero!48531+FM+MJ" ep as Roger has to claim them on his rrelease, but you don't see me crying about it in interviews. :P

So do this mean that the release of Queen Forever is still up in the air and we might not see the release this year?!

Was it 2012 when Brian and Roger first started talking about these tracks and about a potential release? You would have thought with all the talk throughout the tour by Adam on stage about this upcoming release and Brian mentioning it in interviews that all these issues would be ironed out by now. Will there still be a release without the MJ tracks or will it put a roadblock up?

I can see this going on like the Freddie biopic that was initially supposed to be coming out in 2013 according to Jim Beach. He said that in 2011.

Why is nearly everything related to Queen product post 1995 subject to such delays and half-hearted promises that never seem to materialise.

I just hope that the inclusion of a few extra tracks on the deluxe studio albums in 2011, and the release (finally!) of Rainbow (which has been put together very well BTW) means we are seeing some change to QP.