A new Queen song featuring Freddie Mercury has been released after being “forgotten” for 34 years.
The track, Face It Alone, was recorded in 1988 for The Miracle album but was left unfinished and has been described as a “little gem” by band member, Roger Taylor.
It was rediscovered when the band's production and archive team returned to the sessions to work on the upcoming reissue of the album.
The single is the first new song released featuring Mercury since 2014's Queen Forever album which included three previously unheard tracks with the singer titled Let Me In Your Heart Again, Love Kills and There Must Be More to Life Than This.
“We did find a little gem from Freddie that we’d kind of forgotten about and it’s wonderful,” Taylor said.
Brian May described it as “beautiful” before adding: “It was kind of hiding in plain sight. We looked at it many times and thought, oh, no, we can’t really rescue that.
“But, in fact, we went in there again and our wonderful engineering team went, ok, we can do this and this. It’s kind of stitching bits together.”
May added: “I’m happy that our team was able to find this track. After all these years, it’s great to hear all four of us.”
The Miracle was released in 1989 and featured the hit, I Want It All.
The album was one of the last to feature Mercury, who was diagnosed with HIV two years earlier and died in 1991 at the age of 45.
The song's arrival comes ahead of the November 18 reissue of the record as part of an eight-disc box set called, Queen: The Miracle Collector’s Edition.
The box set will also include six previously unheard tracks and conversations while the band recorded in London and Montreux.
