Queen will release a new song this fall featuring singer Freddie Mercury. The song sat on the shelf for years, until bandmates Roger Taylor and Brian May recently came across it again. They told this weekend on BBC Radio 2 about the find.
The British band’s drummer and guitarist came across the song by accident while digging through their archives. The track comes from the period that the album The Miracle was recorded in 1989.
“We found a gem of Freddie’s that we kind of forgot about,” said Taylor. “But it’s beautiful, a real find.”
According to May, Mercury’s pearl, who died in 1991 from the effects of AIDS, was “just hidden in plain sight. We looked at it several times, but then thought: no, we can’t release that.”
However, the technical team of the band could do something with it, so that the song can eventually be released in September. “It was like sewing pieces together,” says the guitarist, who further calls the song “beautiful and moving”.
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