Early promo cassette of The Works including long-waited tracks

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[b]GT wrote: [/b]
Although both cassette tapes for the GL recordings were inside their boxes, 'The Works' one was indeed empty. [/QUOTE]

Now that's what you call frustrating!

Thanks GT! Are there photo's of the cassettebox? Tracklist written by one of the guys?

[QUOTE] [b]*goodco* wrote:[/b]

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?[/QUOTE]


I would say they desperately needed a hit album and a cheaper single vinyl rather than an expensive double was more likely to be a hit.

[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]

It was recorded in July 1984, I believe.

Thank you The Ghost of Lester Burnham and inu-liger

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[b]GT wrote: [/b] 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.[/QUOTE]

What a shame. :/
And like Jam said: "Now that's what you call frustrating!"

If you want/can, we want to know about the research and all that stuff made for the Freddie's boxset. At least a bit of that. I think that would make us appreciate your work as archivist.

[b]Also, thanks for the information. It's very appreciated, more if it's from the same person who made that research, and also is one of the archivists.

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You are getting me mixed up with Greg Brooks, Queen Archivist. He was responsible for the FM Box Set, and a mighty fine job he did too.

[QUOTE] [b]GT wrote:[/b]

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.[/QUOTE]


If you want to be accurate with your statement (which I know is far from Queen's 'thing') it wasn't you "who found this TAPE".... You found the BOX!!!

Surely tho now that Let me in and Let me live have both been released (Brian said he transferred the analogue tape to digital format for Let me in) the tape is no longer missing. So presumably Brian has the tape?

A cassette with one or two songs might be a genuine demo tape, but surely a 14 track lists means it would have been used to listen the studio recordings at home.

And that means there are better sources available for the same material.

For all we know, the tracks on this tape were already mostly finished, and tracks like Man On Fire and Man Made Paradise are alreay 95% versions of the later released songs, including the same vocal takes.

^ I thought about something like a 'leak' of the cassette. And in that way, hear Man Made Paradise from Queen, and Let Me Live with Rod Stewart (or at least the 1984/85 demo).

Because Queen isn't going to release the anthology with inedit demos, inedit studio takes of old songs, professional clips from Queen live (à la Knebworth) at least mixed with amateur recordings of the same concert, amateur recordings in good/excellent quality. Or almost all of that.

Sorry sir for the confusion. I had written a reply (a lengthy one) earlier but my pc crashed and keep crashing. I don't know even if this comment is going to appear in QueenZone, but at least I tried it.

The official Queen Facebook account has uploaded a picture of an original master tape dated Sep 1983, featuring a number of Works tracks including Let Me In Your Heart Again and more interestingly Man On Fire (with the title "I Feel Like A Man On Fire"). However, Man On Fire was crossed out with the comment "Master in Montreux" next to it. Does this mean that a Queen version of the song is out there? Or was the song spliced out of the tape, never to be found again?

I think the most important question to consider is whether or not the version recorded by Roger was intended for inclusion on The Works anyway? The reason I say this is because Brian features on the recording, and we know that Roger played the vast majority of instruments on other Queen songs before (i.e. Fight From The Inside). However, by 1984, Roger and Brian's lead vocal contributions on albums had stopped, so maybe there is a version with Freddie on vocals? Who knows? Perhaps we will never know.

I'd state that, based on the track listings on Queen master tapes being inclusive of Man on Fire, that it does exist in Queen form. A Tero! says above, the lost cassette tape is going to be a copy run off in the studio from the master tapes for listening to away from the studio, probably pretty close to completion of at least demo versions of all those tracks, if not of the final versions.

Where could I find a picture of this cassette box?

I remember this tape... someone have save the picture?