Queen will debut an unreleased Freddie Mercury song in September — 30 years after the singer's death
- Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor said they will debut an unreleased Freddie Mercury song.
- They told the BBC that they found the song again after forgetting about it.
Queen have announced that they will release a new song featuring the late Freddie Mercury in September.
Mercury was the lead singer of the English band when it first formed in 1970 until he died from complications with AIDS in 1991. Brian May and Roger Taylor, Queen's guitarist and drummer respectively, have since continued performing as Queen, including on Saturday, when they performed with American singer Adam Lambert during the British Queen's Jubilee concert, "Platinum Party at the Palace," to celebrate her 70 years on the throne.
Before they went on stage at Buckingham Palace on Saturday, May and Taylor told the BBC that they will release a new song called "Face It Alone" in September.
"We did find a little gem from Freddie that we'd kind of forgotten about and it's wonderful," Taylor told Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2. "Actually, it was a real discovery. It's from the 'Miracle' sessions and I think it's going to be out in September."
"Miracle" is the name of Queen's 13th studio album, released in 1989. It was the penultimate album before Mercury's death and contained the hit "I Want It All."
When asked how they found the song, May explained: "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 like stitching bits together. But it's beautiful. It's touching."
Taylor added: "It's a very passionate piece."
In the past, Queen has released a number of unreleased tracks featuring Mercury such as "There Must Be More to Life Than This," which was a discarded collaboration with Michael Jackson and was released as part of the "Queen Forever" compilation album in 2014.