Jackson estate being "difficult" over Mercury tracks

I can't see it being released this year, as it would be too close to the Rainbow release, which is far more interesting.

They are holding out for top dollar.. as we all would if we had that gold in our cave....

I really can't stand Jacksons voice! And next to the maestro Freddie he sounds worse still. By all means add TMBMTLTT to the album with just Freddie's vocals, but leave Jackson off this album! I've heard State of Shock and it's dreadful!!!! I cannot believe that they're aren't enough unheard tracks in the archive that aren't good enough to be worked on??

We're still few months before the planned release (X-mas) so we can write to BM and suggest using FM only version of There Must Be More To Live Than This. Completely muting or removing Jacko vocal track shouldn't be hard for them and it could be the only way to release the new mix and hear what ideas BM + RT + W. Orbit put into it.

[QUOTE] [b]MercurialFreddie wrote:[/b]

We're still few months before the planned release (X-mas) so we can write to BM and suggest using FM only version of There Must Be More To Live Than This. Completely muting or removing Jacko vocal track shouldn't be hard for them and it could be the only way to release the new mix and hear what ideas BM + RT + W. Orbit put into it.[/QUOTE]

If they've gone through the trouble of remixing the version with MJ, why on earth would they remove his vocals?
Because a handful of fans prefer the track without MJ??

They're in it for the money, and the easiest way to make the money is by combining the potential market of FM and MJ.
You don't have a say in it.

Well, I didn't write that because I don't like TMBMTLTT with MJ vocals but because there is a possibility that the Jackson estate didn't give QPR green light to release the track.
If the whole album will be postponed because of that, then removing MJ's vocals could be a way of
avoiding postponement.

Sorry double post.

Is anyone else getting less and less enthusiastic about this album ? its just dragging on and on......yawn !!!!!

I think they'll be hoping for this album to have commercial success internationally and not put just in the UK and typically 'Queen fan' countries like Holland (for example).

Let's face it North America has been inundated with Queen 'Hits' collections recently, even moreso then in the UK.

They've only just had 'Queen Icon' in the US and Canada (which surprisingly has done quite well here and has been in the top 25 album charts for months). There was Stone Cold Classics when QPR were on American Idol, A-Z of Queen released in Walmart and then of course Classic Queen, Greatest Hits I and II, Platinum Collection and Queen Rocks and Queens Greatest Hits (which was the 1992 version that sold around 7.2 million copies so far).

The only way really this album could break out there and elsewhere is to have as many 'new' tracks as possible. Genuine MJ vocals will be a big plus no matter how bad some Queen fans think his voice is. Whether we'll see this in late 2014, 2015 or later is anyone's guess...

well, Brian, Adam and Orbit said late this year, Christmas time. but the latest comments from Roger when he said he doesn't even know what's on the album yet, kind of tells us it's still ways off. My guess is spring 2015

[QUOTE] [b]mike hunt wrote:[/b]

well, Brian, Adam and Orbit said late this year, Christmas time. but the latest comments from Roger when he said he doesn't even know what's on the album yet, kind of tells us it's still ways off. My guess is spring 2015[/QUOTE]

Do we know if this was a very recent interview with Roger? I am assuming it is, but you never quite know as the written media do have a habit of picking up pretty old quotes and passing them off as 'new and exclusive' interviews, and as Roger was quoted saying a similar thing about the Jackson Estate several months ago, I wonder if this might be another case of rehashing??