Queen premiere previously unheard Freddie Mercury song Face It Alone

Queen person revealed a antecedently unheard, profoundly affectional opus they recorded with Freddie Mercury successful 1988.

Face It Alone, which the precocious vocalist recorded during sessions for 1989 medium The Miracle, was fixed its premiere by BBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce connected Thursday.

"We did find a small gem from Freddie, that we'd benignant of forgotten about," drummer Roger Taylor said astir the way successful June.

"It's wonderful, a existent discovery. It's a precise passionate piece."

A slow, sombre track, Face It Alone opens with a pounding drum and a finger-picked guitar line, earlier Mercury sings: "When thing truthful beloved to your beingness / Explodes successful show / You consciousness your psyche is acceptable connected fire."

It was recorded during the historical sessions for The Miracle successful London and Switzerland, erstwhile Mercury had been diagnosed with HIV but hadn't made it public.

In a almighty vocal, helium appears to notation his failing health, increasing progressively passionate arsenic helium repeats the refrain: "In the extremity / You person to look it each alone."

Guitarist Brian May primitively thought the signaling was unsalvageable, but engineers proved him wrong.

"It was benignant of hiding successful plain sight," helium told Radio 2's Zoe Ball earlier this year.

"We looked astatine it galore times and thought, ohio no, we can't truly rescue that. But successful fact, we went successful determination again and our fantastic engineering squad went, 'OK, we tin bash this and this.'

"It's similar benignant of stitching bits together... but it's beautiful, it's touching."

One of much than 20 off-cuts from the sessions, Face It Alone is overmuch darker than tracks similar I Want It All and The Invisible Man, which yet made it connected to The Miracle.

The album's closing way Was It All Worth It, however, dealt with akin themes, arsenic the prima reflected connected his beingness and vocation and asked: "Am I a blessed antheral / Or is this sinking sand?"

Mercury died successful November 1991, 9 months aft Queen's last medium Innuendo - the successor to The Miracle - was released.

The surviving radical members reconvened successful 1995 to grounds Made In Heaven, completing songs the vocalist had recorded earlier his death.

The past "new" Queen euphony featuring Mercury's vocals came retired 8 years ago, erstwhile May and Taylor included the Michael Jackson duet There Must Be More to Life Than This connected the 2014 Queen Forever compilation.

In 2019, a stripped-down mentation of Mercury's 1986 solo azygous Time was besides released nether the rubric Time Waits for No One.

Since 2011, the set person toured with American Idol prima Adam Lambert, selling retired stadiums crossed the world. Their 1981 Greatest Hits medium is the UK's best-selling medium of each time, with much than 7 cardinal copies sold.

Face It Alone is being released arsenic a azygous connected Thursday, and volition besides diagnostic connected a caller deluxe variation of The Miracle, alongside 5 different antecedently unreleased songs, 3 of which besides incorporate vocals by Mercury.