The piece, a simple ballad, has been rescued from the sessions of ‘The Miracle’, the singer’s penultimate album in life
Some slow kick drum hits, dum… dum dum… dum… dum dum… With tremendous reverb. Brian May enters with the guitar in a succession of arpeggios reminiscent of ‘Nothing Else Matters’, the song that Metallica published in 1991. And then the voice of Freddie Mercury starts, the one we miss so much. First rough and low, almost as if he were tearing the silence and breaking, then powerful and bright, with that characteristic way he had to give the highest notes. That’s how melancholy ‘Face it Alone’ is, which translated would be something like ‘Face it alone’.
This is the first song that Queen publishes together with Freddie Mercury in 8 years, since in the album ‘Queen Forever’ of 2014, the band included three previously unheard songs with Mercury, ‘Let Me In Your Heart Again’, ‘ Love Kills’ and ‘There Must Be More To Life Than This’, although they had already been heard in other Mercury solo works. The subject was found when the band’s production and archive team delved into the recording sessions of 1988, the year in which the group entered the studio to record ‘The Miracle’ (1989), the penultimate full-length that the formation published with the singer in life. It was a prolific period, in which Mercury created about thirty songs, many of which did not see the light and were left without entering the final cut of the album.
The release of this song, which basically speaks of loneliness, precedes the release on November 18 of the collector’s edition of ‘The Miracle’, a work that will be available in two formats: a deluxe edition, with two CDs and a price for 21.99 euros, and a Collector’s Edition with eight discs (a vinyl, five CDs, a DVD and a blu-ray) which, in addition to the original work, includes original takes, demos, cuts and six unreleased songs, as well as audio of intimate conversations between the band working in the London and Montreux studios. Its price? €159.99.
They were Brian May and Roger Taylor, guitarist and drummer of the band, respectively, who revealed the existence of the song in an interview for BBC radio. Taylor commented then that it was “a little gem of Freddie that we hardly remembered. It’s wonderful, a real find. It’s a passionate subject.”
For her part, May described the song as “very beautiful and moving.” “I’m glad our team found this song. After so many years, it’s great to hear the four of us… Yes, Deacy -he says in reference to bassist John Deacon, who left the band after the release of ‘Made in Heaven’ in 1995- is also in the recording of this brilliant idea that It was never finished…until now!”
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