"New" Freddie Mercury track to be released

I think the video match up too well to be a completely new version. Unless the phrasing is very similar that is. Maybe some of the last third is new. They struggled more with proper footage there. But I dont know. Just like you I am too lazy to check properly.

Not sure Dave would be too happy about Brian calling it “a rather featureless song”.

I thought the same, that it was just the Vocal track and piano, and the video not matching was the result of using footage without the choir.

But It's certainly not identical.

It seems to be the same until about 1:32 when the new version throws in an extra "nobody", then it's identical until 2:25, when it skips over the choir and adds a new chorus from Freddie (where the video stop matching), then returns to being the same from "let's learn to be friends with one another." then skips over the last verse to the ending.

I'm guessing what we have is some vocals that were muted in the original so Freddie didn't over power the choir.

Why would Brian call it featureless?

Has anyone ever noticed Brian’s slight anger of Freddie’s solo career? I remember reading an angry post of his about the Mr. Bad Guy album, about doing the demos with Freddie and then Freddie having his guitarist completely replicate them for the final product, and Brian felt that Freddie should have just used him for it. Brian’s always have off some steam about Freddie’s solo stuff. Maybe he really did think Freddie was going to ditch Queen for solo music...

"I remember reading an angry post of his about the Mr. Bad Guy album, about doing the demos with Freddie and then Freddie having his guitarist completely replicate them for the final product, and Brian felt that Freddie should have just used him for it."

Oooh.. find this!

[QUOTE] [b]MisterCosmicc wrote:[/b]

Why would Brian call it featureless?[/QUOTE]

Because it lacks features. It's even paced. and lacks any outstanding features like a colourful bridge, a guitar solo, a tempo change etc. You've got to consider Brian's comment in context: he means Fred tried to turn it from a featureless song into an epic song

[QUOTE] [b]MisterCosmicc wrote:[/b]
Has anyone ever noticed Brian’s slight anger of Freddie’s solo career? I remember reading an angry post of his about the Mr. Bad Guy album, about doing the demos with Freddie and then Freddie having his guitarist completely replicate them for the final product, and Brian felt that Freddie should have just used him for it. Brian’s always have off some steam about Freddie’s solo stuff. Maybe he really did think Freddie was going to ditch Queen for solo music...[/QUOTE]

I remember that comment. Then again, Brian expressed some hurt that Axl didn't use some solos that Brian recorded, so it's not limited to Mr Bad Guy.

^^^

That interview absolutely exists. It was in a magazine called Guitar for the practicing musician, and the had a feature called In the listening room. Guitarists would be asked to listen to 5 songs and discuss the aspects of the song. First song on the list was Let's turn it on from Freddie's album. Brian admitted to being hurt about Freddie's decision to do it without him. At that time maybe Freddie was hedging his bets about leaving Queen and wanted the sound without the tension that existed between Brian (and all of them at the time.) I'm 100% certain of this interview, he referenced Paul Butterfield Blues band in the 5th song he listened to.

Ahh, the internet :)

Guitar For The Practicing Musician Magazine
March 1987
IN THE LISTENING ROOM
Musical Selections by John Stix

3. "Let's Turn It On" from Mr. Bad Guy, by Freddie Mercury
BRIAN: This is my least favorite from Freddie's album. It doesn't move
me, whereas a lot of Freddie's stuff does. "Made In Heaven" is one of
the best things he's ever done. I wish we had it on our album. This is
too shallow. The guitarist is trying to cop my sound, which is also why
I don't like it. I know the guitarist quite well. He's a good session
player and pretty innovative. I also know he's a big fan of mine, and
that when Freddie got him in there he said to play like me. I still
haven't figured out why Freddie wanted him to do that. When he played it
for me and said it sounded like me, I was supposed to be pleased. It's
well-played, but inside I thought, what are you trying to tell me I'm
disposable? I felt kind of hurt by it.

Interesting interview

Interesting that Brian says that ‘Let’s Turn It On’ is his least favourite Freddie track.....when Queen pretty much aped it on ‘Party’.

[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]

Interesting that Brian says that ‘Let’s Turn It On’ is his least favourite Freddie track.....when Queen pretty much aped it on ‘Party’.[/QUOTE]

There is some similarity. Fred at his worst; Queen at their worst. Both unlistenable dross.

I have to say I love Let's Turn It On. But I think it's been established my taste is questionable.

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]

I have to say I love Let's Turn It On. But I think it's been established my taste is questionable.[/QUOTE]

Agreed :p

Freddie's latest song 'Time' has got 4 million plus views in 4 days on YouTube...:)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IVETzK4msro&feature=youtu.be

So according to Dave, Freddie first recorded the lead vocal accompanied by piano, then all backing vocals and then backin track was added.
Do you believe it? With Queen it was always - backin track - backing vocals - lead vocals. Is it possible that he agreed on different workflow?
I can't help myself but I still think it was a regular take with whole instrumentation and piano was recorded later. I don't think Freddie would sing like this accompanied only by Mike Moran. What are your thoughts?