Freddie Mercury recorded a song with Queen before he died that was originally to be included on the 1989 album The Miracle, but was never released. This Thursday, two other members of the band, Roger Taylor and Brian May, have unveiled this "Face It Alone" on BBC Radio 2, an extraordinary document in which the legendary British singer expresses himself with great sadness and passion at a dramatic moment in his life. It had been two years since the AIDS test had confirmed his worst omens. And only two years after recording the song he would face death...
your life is up to you
you are in charge of yourself
Owner of your dwelling
Al final, al final
you have to face it alone
Four minutes of music in a minor key that begin with a light guitar plucking and with these verses (here translated into Spanish) that evoke its solemn character. "In the end, you have to face it alone", sings the great pop music star who knew how to charm the majority public with compositions that combined operatic grandiloquence or music hall mischief with resounding bass and drum rhythms or guitar riffs. that monopolized the successes of the eighties.
Face it alone is part of the six unreleased songs that the band has prepared for the next reissue of The Miracle. Queen recorded it on horseback between London and Switzerland. And not only was it not included in The Miracle. Nor on Innuendo, the band's last album with the British singer in the lineup. Not even on the already posthumous Made in Heaven, the band's fifteenth studio recording that was released in November 1995. Two years later, bassist Deacon would leave the group.
"We came across this Freddie gem. We had almost forgotten about it," Queen drummer Roger Taylor told BBC Radio listeners. "It's a wonderful discovery. A very passionate piece," he added.
"We gave it several turns and we thought we could not rescue it," argues Brian May, the guitarist. "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 Miracle's 'boxset' will go on sale next November 18 and will contain different demos, interviews and unreleased recordings from the album.
