Freddie will rock you again

[Pete]

Queen guitarist May reveals plans to release a brand new album – featuring vocals recorded by Mercury before his death

Queen are working on a brand new album set to featured previously unheard vocals from late singer Freddie Mercury.

Guitarist Brian May has revealed he and drummer Roger Taylor are searching through their archives for material the band worked on before their frontman died in 1991.

And he says there are enough songs to release a Queen record and also create an update to their 2002 musical We Will Rock You.

May tells the Daily Star the pair are “going through some old drawers” and adds: “As well as seeing what we can unearth, we want to do a new musical to follow We Will Rock You.

“The songs are there – it’s just a question of finding time to get the right production.”

Meanwhile, Paul Rodgers says he’d be receptive to the idea of reuniting with Queen for the opening of the London Olympics in 2012.

Q+PR worked together between 2004 and 2009 before the singer decided to refocus on solo work. He’d previously stated the project was all in the past – but now he tells Billboard: “I would be open to something like that, I must say.

“We did great; I think we did fantastically well. We were up against potential disaster, really, and I think we really pulled it off. Toured the world a couple of times. Made a brand new studio album.

“I just didn’t want to do it forever – but for something like that would be ideal.”

[Equinox]

Hope it's better then the shitty Beatles songs that came out post Lennons demize.

There is usually a reason songs end up in the vault rather than on a record.

Now that I got the sarcasm out of the way, it could be interesting.

[Pete]

Contrary to recent reports, Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor are not at work on a new album with leftover vocal tracks from the late Freddie Mercury. Ultimate Classic Rock had reported that May and Taylor were looking at demo tracks recorded before Mercury’s death in 1991.

“I’ve got to tell you, there won’t be an album,” the Queen drummer told Ultimate Classic Rock (via NME). “There’s just not enough and the last thing I want to do is have a sort of barrel-scraping exercise.”

However, May and Taylor have been involved with some tracks Mercury and Michael Jackson recorded together.

“There’s a couple of great tracks that Freddie recorded with Michael Jackson that Brian and I are working on and they are good,” Taylor said. “So at some point they will surface I think when we feel it’s a good moment. I don’t really want to ride any sort of wave there. So that’s an interesting thing, but that will be probably later some point next year.”

[Ricky]

I will skip it I had enough Freddie long ago

[snakesandladders]

As long as there's NO WIMPY AND CRAPPY AND YUCKY tunes like Radio Gaga.....HOPEFULLY:)!!!!!

[Trexx]

I like Queen more and more as the years roll on.

They're such a mixed bag. There's always something cool and jammin' on their records.

Stuff like this is Super-Cool:
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