New Queen Archives Compilation To Be Released In 2014
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Written by Huw Baines
Brian May has confirmed that a new Queen compilation, featuring unheard archive material, will be released later this year.
Tentatively titled 'Queen Forever', the collection will arrive following Queen's summer US tour alongside Adam Lambert and feature cuts from the band's classic line-up.
In an interview with BBC Wales' Wynne Evans, May said:
"With Freddie singing and all of us playing, and they're quite beautiful, so people will be hearing this work towards the end of the year. We're gonna put out an album which is probably called 'Queen Forever' and it's a compilation, but it will have this new material on which nobody in the world has ever heard. I think people will enjoy it.
"Most of it comes from the '80s when we were in full flight, so it's quite emotional. It's kind of the big, big ballad and the big, big epic sound. It wouldn't have been if we hadn't done this restoration and had to start from scratch. We only had scraps, but knowing how it would've happened if we'd finished it then, I can sit there and make it happen with modern technology. We have ProTools these days. You can do almost anything in ProTools."
The album will be the first release, excluding live albums and compilations, from the band since 'Made In Heaven' in 1995.
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