Holy Man (Hawkins - May - Taylor - Wilson Version) release

The Dennis Wilson track Holy Man featuring Taylor Hawkins, Brian May & Roger Taylor will be released on vinyl this April. The B-side features an instrumental version of the track.

source: http://www.amazon.es/Holy-Man-Hawkins-Version-Instrumental/dp/B07NHQ88N8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1550863936&sr=8-1&keywords=dennis+wilson+holy+man

The what now?

Thanks for bringing this up. There is a video on YouTube of a - supposedly older - version with Hawkins, but no May or Taylor at that point.

http://youtu.be/tDwTA_rabdQ

Cheers,

Ogre-

That version DID get released in the 2008 2CD along the original instrumental. Cheers Ogre-!

Such a beautiful track. Dennis Wilson was really underrated. He wrote some stellar tracks as part of the Beach Boys and he was really creative in the 1968-1977 period.

Some tracks which are essential listening:

Sound of Free
Fallin' In Love
Forever
Never Learn Not To Love
Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again
Steamboat
Slip On Through
River Song

+ many more.

Sound of Free and Forever are among my favourite songs ever. Thoughts Of You is probably the most poignant of the lot though, beautiful song.

If I can recall, Brian and Roger said that their version remained unreleased, so there is probably just Hawkins version on so far released CD....

Wow, this was very unexpected! All my hopes to see this version released some day had gone long ago!

Such a beatiful track, can’t wait. Preordered!

I unfortunately have no turntable (even no space in my room for it :D ), so i hope for digital or cd release...

According to Brian’s post on Twitter/Instagram the track was released yesterday, April, 13th. The song with alone Wilson and Hawkins is very pure and has a nice melody. I hope the version with Brian and Roger is not over-produced.

The BR+RT version has the original drums treated by Rog, they sound beefier, a little treatment to the cymbals here and there, and some subtle backing vocals from Rog (a lovely extended "holy maaaaaan" later on in the track that bleeds through too).

Brian has... Brianified the track. His guitar sound is so familiar to Queen fans, that it changes what you're hearing so much. That said, some relatively tasteful guitar, some soloing, and PLENTY of backing vocals. The song ends kinda abruptly (it might be fine, sounded a bit sudden to my ears), but the outro is quite nice, and he's done a nice little edit as such of the piano for it.

I've only listened twice tbf, and I'm ten years deep on Hawkins' version, but it's still decent. Hawkins' version definitely suits the vibe of Dennis Wilson's tracks, I think this version may have been slightly out of place on the original POB deluxe release.

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The BR+RT version has the original drums treated by Rog, they sound beefier, a little treatment to the cymbals here and there, and some subtle backing vocals from Rog (a lovely extended "holy maaaaaan" later on in the track that bleeds through too).

Brian has... Brianified the track. His guitar sound is so familiar to Queen fans, that it changes what you're hearing so much. That said, some relatively tasteful guitar, some soloing, and PLENTY of backing vocals. The song ends kinda abruptly (it might be fine, sounded a bit sudden to my ears), but the outro is quite nice, and he's done a nice little edit as such of the piano for it.

I've only listened twice tbf, and I'm ten years deep on Hawkins' version, but it's still decent. Hawkins' version definitely suits the vibe of Dennis Wilson's tracks, I think this version may have been slightly out of place on the original POB deluxe release.
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Thanks for sharing your opinion! It is shame, that they do not release it digitally..

I was happy to find this single in my local record shop yesterday and I really like it. I think Brian and Roger have added their thing without changing the Original vibe of the song. Nice one, they (Brian and Roger) should do more of these collaborations.

I bought it from Amazon, in digital edition. Beautiful song, It shows Brian's guitar and voice. I hope Brian and Roger edited these types of songs in the future. Sorry, there a are other topic about this song.

It is on Spotify as well.