the music group What in unveiled this Thursday the song “Face It Alone“, an unreleased song from 1988 that they recorded with the deceased Freddie Mercury.
The theme was recorded 34 years ago for the 1989 album The Miraclebut it has not been released until today, on BBC Radio 2.
The four-minute song begins with a plucked guitar and has a solemn and sad tone, captivated by the voice of Mercury, who died just two years after the death. release of The Miracle and a few months after innuendothe band’s last album with the British singer in its lineup.
“We came across this gem of a Freddie. We had almost forgotten about it,” he said. Roger Taylor, drummer for Queen. “It’s a wonderful find. A very passionate piece,” he added.
“Face It Alone”, which is one of the six unreleased songs that the band has prepared for the reissue of The Miraclewas recorded halfway between London and Switzerland, when Mercury was already ill with HIVas he drops into the song with lines like, “In the end, you have to face it alone.”
“We gave it several laps and we thought we couldn’t rescue it,” he said. Brian May, guitarist of the band on BBC. “But in the end, after insisting, our team of sound engineers got it. It was like putting together the pieces of a puzzle and something very beautiful came out.”
Face It Alone has been released as a single this Thursday, and can already be heard on the main music platforms, while the The Miracle box set will go on sale next November 18 and will contain different demos, interviews and unreleased recordings of the album.
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Queen publishes an unreleased song sung by Freddie Mercury: listen to it