Queen's Freddie Mercury Lives Again on 'Epic' Unreleased Tracks: New Album 'Queen Forever' Coming Soon
Queen's Freddie Mercury will be heard once again on "epic" rock songs, his bandmate and guitarist Brian May revealed. The legendary deceased rocker recorded some tracks in the 1980s that were never released, but by the end of 2014, fans of the English band could have the restored and completed versions ready for listening on a new album titled Queen Forever.
May discussed the new Freddie Mercury songs and possible album title Queen Forever in an interview with BBC Radio. After the acclaimed musician finished speaking about his latest book about 19th century French stereoscopic cards, Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell, he spoke on some lost Queen tracks he called "beautiful."
"I've just been doing something very similar (to Mercury's 'Made in Heaven') because we found a few more tracks with Freddie singing and all of us playing and they're quite beautiful. People will be hearing this work toward the end of the year," May said.
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The compilation will "probably" be called Queen Forever, but the lost and incomplete tracks from the 1980s required a lot of work by May and bandmate Roger Taylor before they were usable, he said.
"It will have this new material on which nobody in the world has ever heard and I think people will really enjoy it," May explained. "It's the big, big epic sound. It wouldn't have been if we hadn't have done this restoration job. We only had scraps, but knowing how it would've happened had we finished it, I can sit there and make it happen with modern technology."
Freddie Mercury, widely considered one of the most prolific rock voices of all time, died at age 45 of bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS on Nov. 4, 1991.
