What tracks have yet to appear?

I don't tend to follow too closely the bootleg stuff, I'm curious as to any tracks we know the band worked on that have NEVER seen the light of day? I don't mean leaked studio tapes etc, I mean anything we know about but have never heard at all?

The studio recording of Hangman

A quote from Rhys Thomas ("Days Of Our Lives", "The Great Pretender" documentaries director, among other things) from five years ago, regarding whether he had heard any new rarities while going through old material:

"I haven't really. Well, apart from another song by Bowie and Queen called 'I Don't Want To Be A Rolling Stone.' It's stunning. It was later re-worked to become 'I Go Crazy.' It's good as 'Under Pressure.' It would have been a great follow up single. "

Interestingly, this comment was deleted later on from that reddit AMA.


Also, Ratty (long-time roadie and "Queen Unseen" book author) mentioned that in the sessions leading to writing "Under Pressure", they got to play and presumably record many covers, such as "All The Young Dudes" and "All The Way From Memphis" among others. Source.

Certainly, there were other tracks recorded with Queen and Bowie, and Freddie singing, which were never released. Pretty raw, but original material definitely. They were just incredibly spontaneous, good musicians.

“I can categorically say I know that there were complete tracks, not mixed tracks, but fully formed songs that were done. Does it belong to the David Bowie estate or to Queen? That’s probably part of the reason these things have never come to light.”

Around the time Bowie died, Brian said that they had recorded a lot of material nobody knows about.


I read something recently too about a sort of super song (or was it a super-band?) written by several or all members of Queen along with other world-famous artists that never saw the light of day. I don't really remember the context, but I found out about that a few months ago.

Rod Stewart has said in the past that He, Elton and Freddie recorded some stuff together, I'm not sure if this was the same time as the original Let Me Live was done or later.

Giorgio Moroder's original song called Love Kills, before Freddie Replaced it with the Version he worked on.

A couple of Phantom of the Opera tracks.

I guess Queen (Jim Beach) thinks there's no use of releasing any rare tracks as people don't buy records anymore, so there's no profit to be made out of the songs. Maybe they should put a couple of the unreleased interesting pieces of music in the middle of a big enpensive otherwise worthless box set so they could "force" the fans to buy all of that just for the couple of tracks. Oh silly me, they did that already. :D

Let's Make Love, Wooly Hat...

emrabt wrote:

Rod Stewart has said in the past that He, Elton and Freddie recorded some stuff together, I'm not sure if this was the same time as the original Let Me Live was done or later.

Giorgio Moroder's original song called Love Kills, before Freddie Replaced it with the Version he worked on.

A couple of Phantom of the Opera tracks.

Love Kills features all 4 Queen members, not just Freddie.

emrabt wrote:

Rod Stewart has said in the past that He, Elton and Freddie recorded some stuff together, I'm not sure if this was the same time as the original Let Me Live was done or later.

I always thought the "teeth, nose and hair" thing was a joke, not an actual band or even a session together.

I recall some discussion about the entirely different "Love Kills" written by Roger during the Works sessions, completely unrelated to Moroder's and Freddie's track. Does anybody remember that? I'm 100% sure it was mentioned somewhere.

The Real Wizard wrote:
I always thought the "teeth, nose and hair" thing was a joke, not an actual band or even a session together.

Maybe, he said a lot of alcohol was consumed to come up with the name, which does make it sound like a drunken night at Freddies with his tape recorder more than anything in a studio.

Love Kills

The one i'm talking about is a completely different song to the "Love kills - Drills you through your heart" one. This one has it's lyrics in the Metropolise album sleeve:

If you had kept your eyes wide open
You might have stood at least a chance
You could have taken some precaution
Least you'd had a second glance

Love is lethal, love's a crime
Love is fatal, love's a tyrant
Love is murder, love destroys
Love won't stop until
Love kills

Love hides and waits within your feelings
It's full of cloak and dagger style
And always ready without warning
To sentence you without a trial

Love is lethal, love's a crime
Love is fatal, love's a tyrant
Love is murder, love destroys
Love holds on until
Love kills

So now you're staring at the future
But you can't take along the past
And emptiness, that silver bullet
Slams and tears right through your heart

There's also a song apparently written by Freddie for a fan in a coma, who was burried with the tape, apparently called "Keep on smiling".
I've only seen this mentioned in one book, Parragon's "They Died Too Young" series by Simon Boyce, so take the story with a Pinch of salt, It's also possible it's the "keep smiling" thing we all know.

emrabt wrote:

There's also a song apparently written by Freddie for a fan in a coma, who was burried with the tape, apparently called "Keep on smiling".
I've only seen this mentioned in one book, Parragon's "They Died Too Young" series by Simon Boyce, so take the story with a Pinch of salt, It's also possible it's the "keep smiling" thing we all know.

It is the Keep Smilin' track featured on the Solo Collection.

Thought it might have been, scratch that one then, it's been released.

emrabt wrote:

A couple of Phantom of the Opera tracks.

Peter Freestone said that Freddie never recorded those tracks.

Damn the myths!