The Miracle Rarities

I remember Freddie telling that when Queen where recording The Miracle album, Sir Paul McCartney was next door recording a new album and he had worked on over a 100 songs
and Freddie thought that was outrageous, but then he said Queen had quite a few left over tracks running around somewhere, which could easily make another album but Queen hardly used previous tracks as a rule as some songs have surfaced over the years from previous recording sessions like "Sheer heart attack" and " We are the champions"

mixed bag the miracle. its ruined by my baby does me, rain must fall and the invisible man. rest is pretty damn good. stealin, Heartland, Hijack my Heart and Dog with a Bone would have been better than the three duff tracks.

Heartland? never heard of that track?

How nice.....something that hardly anyone will get a chance to listen to.

Figures

Russian Headlong 2

Do you mean Headlong?)) If so, Its on Innuendo, not in Miracle.
Heartland is also a name of MHR-band, from UK...damn good one,btw

Heartland?

[QUOTE] [b]stevelondon20 wrote:[/b]

Heartland?[/QUOTE]

Heartland is a Cross song

Ah, of course. Should have known that!!!

If there are lots of tracks that were worked on but didn't make it onto The Miracle maybe they were stockpiling songs for Innuendo - in the expectation they otherwise wouldn't get a full album. After all, supposedly, Freddie wasn't going to make it to the end of The Miracle. (Grim thought, I know, but they did this for real post-Innuendo.)

Now, how many of those went unneeded as Innuendo is indeed a complete album, is an interesting question.

"Africa By Night" is one that, I think, came from around the Miracle timeframe. I wonder if there are some tracks on Innuendo that are recognisably of the Miracle "style".

[QUOTE] [b]Martin Packer wrote:[/b]

I wonder if there are some tracks on Innuendo that are recognisably of the Miracle "style".[/QUOTE]

That's indeed an interesting question. Let's check them one by one:

- Innuendo, Bijou and Don't Try So Hard apparently began in late 1989 when the band were in Switzerland. So, those three are unrelated to The Miracle.

- Headlong and I Can't Live with You were written for Back to the Light, part of which overlapped with The Miracle but also with Innuendo. Hard to tell unless we get some specific dates.

- All God's People has been confirmed to have been considered for The Miracle.

- Slightly Mad, These Are the Days of Our Lives and Show Must Go On were reportedly done in 1990, so no.

That leaves three songs:

- The Hitman
- Delilah
- Ride the Wild Wind

Coincidentally, those are three tracks which rarely get mentioned, so it's entirely possible that they began in The Miracle, or maybe two of them, or perhaps one of them, or perhaps none of them.

By the way, I did list the songs we *knew* about or which had been released or otherwise leaked so far, but I didn't claim that only those existed. There could easily be many more which we simply don't know about... or at least I don't.

The Hitman Delilah & Ride the wild wind certainly need to be forgotten about as they are drivel.

^Just my opinion, but I really like Ride The Wild Wind. Very much a Roger track, elevated to higher musical quality by the band.

Rogers best tracks with Queen must be "Im in love with my car" & "Drowse"

The guitar on the RTWW demo is better than the finished version in my opinion.