Early promo cassette of The Works including long-waited tracks

"An early promo cassette of the album lists a completely rearranged tracklisting, losing 'Is This The World We Created' but adding 'I Go Crazy' and four other tracks which turned up on later Queen or Solo projects, namely:

1. Tear It Up
2. Whipping Boy (I Go Crazy)
3. I Want To Break Free
4. Machines (or Back To Humans)
[b]5. Man On Fire
6. Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart (Let Me Live)[/b]
7. It's A Hard Life
[b]8. Your Heart Again (Let Me In (Your Heart Again))[/b]
9. Man On The Prowl
10. Radio Caca (Radio Ga Ga)
11. Hammer To Fall
12. Keep Passing The Open Windows
[b]13. Man Made Paradise[/b]"

I found it here: http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/queen/songs/the-works.htm

Someone have it? Someone can share it? That should be a golden mine.

Imagine:

Man On Fire with Freddie in lead vocals.
Let Me Live with Rod Stewart.
Let Me In without Auto-Tune and without new harmonies from Brian.
And Man Made Paradise played by Queen.

Man made paradise YES!

Now that would be interesting to hear! On a somewhat related note..............I thought I read somewhere that there was a Queen version of New Dark Ages lurking somewhere in the archives..................perhaps attempted for the Innuendo sessions??

It's not an early promo cassette, that's a misleading description on the site's part. As far as I remember, it was an early compilation tape of songs recorded up to that point during the sessions, with the track list found recently by Ratty (I believe), but not the tape.

Queen-version of Man On Fire...*drools*

[QUOTE] [b]The Ghost of Lester Burnham wrote:[/b]

It's not an early promo cassette, that's a misleading description on the site's part. As far as I remember, it was an early compilation tape of songs recorded up to that point during the sessions, with the track list found recently by Ratty (I believe), but not the tape.[/QUOTE]

^^^^yep - this is what I remember as well, though I thought it was Phoebe who found the empty cassette box

sorry - double post

No Thank God it's Christmas, when was this recorded? Or was this never meant to be an album track?

[QUOTE] [b]KJ wrote:[/b]

No Thank God it's Christmas, when was this recorded? Or was this never meant to be an album track? [/QUOTE]

Demoed in July 1984, recorded between November 7 and 11, 1984, never meant to be on The Works.

Easy to make your own alternative The Works playlist now with all those tracks.

Funny how quite a few titles share the same theme - Man On Fire, Man Made Paradise, Man on the Prowl.

Not to mention "Let Me.."

Let Me Entertain You
Let Me Out (Brian solo)
Let Me In Into Your Heart Again
Let Me Live

Inspired by Paul Revere & The Raiders, perhaps?;-)

One can make their own Queen double LP 'Works' release from this era (other than the sound mix of Mr Bad Guy not quite fitting). Rumours of 'It's An llusion' FM vocals float around, so that's another track that would have been a good fit.

So, with all that was going on, why was this LP so short in length? Was there such friction at the time, that rather than adding another track or two over any slight objections, they decided on not including any others?

Or am I reading too much into that?

Such a shame that this tracklisting wasn't the final one!! I think it would have made a really positive difference to how the album sounded as a whole - add the original Queen version of There Must Be More To Life Than This and it would have been a cracker. As it stands, it's possibly my least favourite Queen album along with AKOM - far too short and too many crap tracks.

I´m pretty sure... QP and both, Brian May & Roger Taylor, knows very, very good what songs are in the archives and what a rich fundus they have to release all the stuff partly from time to time. Queen Forever is only the beginning!

I think that if there's a Queen version of Man on Fire, Roger is still probably singing the lead. I would love to hear a Freddie vocal version, but I don't think it's likely that it even exists.

A brief story about this cassette.
It was me who found this tape, along with the Garden Lodge tapes way back in about 1995/6. I was searching through one of Feebies boxes looking for records and came across these gems.
Although both cassette tapes for the GL recordings were inside their boxes, 'The Works' one was indeed empty.