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| [[It's A Hard Life]] (Freddie's vocal slave) | | [[It's A Hard Life]] (Freddie's vocal slave) | ||
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+ | | [[Machines (Or 'Back To Humans')]] (intro demo) | ||
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| [[One Year Of Love]] (demo) | | [[One Year Of Love]] (demo) | ||
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+ | | [[Pain Is So Close To Pleasure]] (demo) | ||
| ''unreleased'' | | ''unreleased'' | ||
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+ | | [[Rain Must Fall]] (demo version excerpt) | ||
+ | | ''unreleased'' | ||
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+ | | [[Rain Must Fall]] (vocal takes) | ||
| ''unreleased'' | | ''unreleased'' | ||
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+ | | style="width:50%" | [[Dog With A Bone]] (three versions) | ||
+ | | ''unreleased'' | ||
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| [[Headlong]] (embryo with guide vocal) | | [[Headlong]] (embryo with guide vocal) | ||
| [[Innuendo (album) | Innuendo ((2011 Universal Records/Island CD reissue)]] | | [[Innuendo (album) | Innuendo ((2011 Universal Records/Island CD reissue)]] | ||
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+ | | [[Innuendo (song) | Innuendo]] (1989 Mix) | ||
+ | | ''unreleased'' | ||
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+ | | [[Innuendo (song) | Innuendo]] (Roger guide vocal) | ||
+ | | ''unreleased'' | ||
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+ | | [[Don't Try So Hard]] (early alternate mix) | ||
+ | | ''unreleased'' | ||
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| [[Headlong]] (bass/drum machine demo) | | [[Headlong]] (bass/drum machine demo) | ||
| ''unreleased'' | | ''unreleased'' | ||
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+ | | [[I Can't Live With You]] (Roger guide vocal) | ||
+ | | ''unconfirmed'' | ||
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| [[Ride The Wild Wind]] (instrumental drum-based demo) | | [[Ride The Wild Wind]] (instrumental drum-based demo) | ||
+ | | ''unreleased'' | ||
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+ | | [[These Are The Days Of Our Lives]] (alternate version) | ||
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+ | | [[Affairs]] | ||
+ | | ''unreleased'' | ||
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+ | | [[Grand Dame]] | ||
+ | | ''unreleased'' | ||
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+ | | [[New Dark Ages]] | ||
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Current revision as of 18:45, 27 November 2013
1980
FEBRUARY – MAY
Musicland Studios, Munich (The Game and early Flash Gordon sessions)
Play The Game | The Game | |
Dragon Attack | The Game | |
Another One Bites The Dust | The Game | |
Need Your Loving Tonight | The Game | |
Rock It (Prime Jive) | The Game | |
Don't Try Suicide | The Game | |
A Human Body | Play The Game, 1980 | |
FEBRUARY | Football Fight (early version, no synths!) | Flash Gordon (2011 Universal Records/Island CD reissue) |
MARCH | The Kiss (Aura Resurrects Flash) (early version) | Flash Gordon (2011 Universal Records/Island CD reissue) |
APRIL | Beautiful Day (demo) | The Game (2011 Universal Records/Island CD reissue) |
Play The Game (with Andy Gibb on additional vocals) | unreleased | |
Dragon Attack (rough demo percussion mix) | unreleased | |
Another One Bites The Dust (percussion version) | unreleased | |
Rock It (Prime Jive) (Freddie vocal version) | unreleased | |
Rock It (Prime Jive) (Roger vocal version) | unreleased | |
Sandbox | unreleased |
SUMMER 1980 – EARLY 1981
Mountain Studios, Montreux (Roger Taylor Fun In Space sessions)
OCTOBER – NOVEMBER
The Townhouse and Advision Studios, London; The Music Centre, Middlesex; Utopia Studios, London (The Hero). (Flash Gordon sessions)
- Note: Brian recorded the basic track of The Dark during these sessions, and he returned to it again while working on Back To The Light.
1981
JULY – SEPTEMBER
Mountain Studios, Montreux; Power Station, New York (Under Pressure partial) (Hot Space sessions)
Under Pressure | Under Pressure, 1981 and Hot Space | |
Soul Brother | Under Pressure, 1981; see note below | |
Cool Cat | Hot Space | |
People On Streets | unreleased | |
Feel Like | unreleased | |
Cool Cat (alternate take with David Bowie on backing vocals) | unreleased |
- Note: other songs from Hot Space may have been recorded during these sessions, but it's not known which were.
DECEMBER 1981 – MARCH 1982
Musicland Studios, Munich; Atlantic Tower (Staying Power partial) (Hot Space sessions)
Staying Power | Hot Space | |
Dancer | Hot Space | |
Back Chat | Hot Space | |
Body Language | Hot Space | |
Action This Day | Hot Space | |
Put Out The Fire | Hot Space | |
Life Is Real (Song For Lennon) | Hot Space | |
Calling All Girls | Hot Space | |
Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love) | Hot Space | |
27 JANUARY | Staying Power (demo) | unreleased |
7 FEBRUARY | Life Is Real (Song For Lennon) | unreleased |
Back Chat (demo) | unreleased | |
Wooly Hat (early version of Cool Cat) | unreleased | |
Action This Day (demo) | unreleased | |
Put Out The Fire (vocal demo) | unreleased | |
Put Out The Fire (demo) | unreleased | |
Put Out The Fire (early alternate mix) | unreleased | |
Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love) (demo) | unreleased | |
Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love) (10" acetate remix) | unreleased | |
Man Made Paradise | unreleased | |
Whipping Boy | unreleased | |
My Boy (demo) | unreleased | |
My Boy | Lullabies With A Difference, 1998 | |
I Go Crazy (early instrumental version) | unreleased |
1983
21 & 22 APRIL
The Record Plant, Los Angeles (Brian May Star Fleet Project sessions)
Star Fleet | Star Fleet Project | |
Let Me Out | Star Fleet Project | |
Blues Breaker | Star Fleet Project |
MID 1983 – EARLY 1984
Mountain Studios, Montreux; Musicland Studios, Munich (Roger Taylor Strange Frontier sessions)
Strange Frontier | Strange Frontier | |
Beautiful Dreams | Strange Frontier | |
Man On Fire | Strange Frontier | |
Racing In The Street | Strange Frontier | |
Masters Of War | Strange Frontier | |
Killing Time | Strange Frontier | |
Abandonfire | Strange Frontier | |
Young Love | Strange Frontier | |
It's An Illusion | Strange Frontier | |
I Cry For You (love, hope and confusion) | Strange Frontier | |
Two Sharp Pencils (Get Bad) | Strange Frontier, 1984 12" single | |
Strange Frontier (studio master mix) | unreleased | |
Beautiful Dreams (studio master mix) | unreleased | |
Racing In The Street (studio master mix) | unreleased | |
Masters Of War (studio master mix) | unreleased | |
Young Love (studio master mix) | unreleased | |
It's An Illusion (studio master mix) | unreleased | |
I Cry For You (love, hope and confusion) (studio master mix) | unreleased | |
Two Sharp Pencils (Get Bad) (studio master mix; slow) | unreleased | |
Two Sharp Pencils (Get Bad) (studio master mix; fast) | unreleased | |
Keep On Running | unreleased | |
I Want To Take You Higher | unreleased |
SUMMER
Michael Jackson's home studio at Neverland (Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson collaboration)
State Of Shock | unreleased | |
There Must Be More To Life Than This | unreleased | |
Victory | unreleased |
AUGUST 1983 – JANUARY 1984
The Record Plant, Los Angeles (August – October) and Musicland Studios, Munich (October – January) (The Works recording sessions)
Radio Ga Ga | The Works | |
Tear It Up | The Works | |
It's A Hard Life | The Works | |
Man On The Prowl | The Works | |
Machines (Or 'Back To Humans') | The Works | |
I Want To Break Free | The Works | |
Keep Passing The Open Windows | The Works | |
Hammer To Fall | The Works | |
Is This The World We Created...? | The Works | |
I Go Crazy | Radio Ga Ga, 1984 | |
Radio Ka Ka (Roger's original demo) | unreleased | |
Tear It Up (Brian vocal demo) | unreleased | |
It's A Hard Life (Freddie's vocal slave) | unreleased | |
Machines (Or 'Back To Humans') (intro demo) | unreleased | |
Keep Passing The Open Windows (Freddie demo) | unreleased | |
Keep Passing The Open Windows (early Queen demo) | unreleased | |
Is This The World We Created...? (piano version) | unreleased | |
There Must Be More To Life Than This | unreleased | |
Let Me In Your Heart Again | unreleased | |
2 SEPTEMBER | Another Little Piece Of My Heart (with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart) | unreleased |
Man On Fire | unreleased | |
Love Kills | unreleased | |
Victory | unreleased | |
Man Made Paradise | unreleased | |
Whipping Boy | unreleased |
1984
JANUARY 1984 – JANUARY 1985 (discontinuously)
Musicland Studios, Munich (Freddie Mercury Mr. Bad Guy sessions)
SUMMER
Townhouse Studios, London (Christmas song demo sessions)
Thank God It's Christmas (demo) | unreleased | |
I Dream Of Christmas (demo) | unreleased |
7 – 11 NOVEMBER
Townhouse Studios, London, and Musicland Studios, Munich (Thank God It's Christmas single sessions)
Thank God It's Christmas | Thank God It's Christmas, 1984 |
- Note: The backing track for Thank God It's Christmas was recorded in London and then sent to Freddie in Munich, who was working on his solo album there.
1985
AUGUST
Mountain Studios, Montreux
A Kind Of Vision (demo) | A Kind Of Magic (2011 Universal Records/Island CD reissue) |
SEPTEMBER
Mountain Studios, Montreux, and Maison Rouge, London (One Vision single sessions)
One Vision (single edit) | One Vision, 1985 | |
Blurred Vision | One Vision, 1985 |
- Note: other songs that ended up (or didn't end up) on A Kind Of Magic may have been started at these sessions, but no specifics are certain.
AUTUMN 1985 – MARCH 1986
Mountain Studios, Montreux; Musicland Studios, Munich; Townhouse Studios, London (A Kind Of Magic sessions)
OCTOBER
Abbey Studios, London (Freddie Mercury solo session)
In My Defence | Time (soundtrack album), In My Defence, 1992 CD single, and The Solo Collection |
1986
JANUARY
Abbey Road Studios, London (Freddie Mercury solo session)
Time | Time, 1986 |
NOVEMBER
Townhouse Studios, London (Freddie Mercury solo session)
The Great Pretender | The Great Pretender, 1987 | |
Exercises In Free Love | The Great Pretender, 1987 | |
The Great Pretender (demo) | The Solo Collection |
1987
JANUARY 1987 - MARCH 1988
Townhouse Studios, London; Mountain Studios, Montreux (Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé Barcelona sessions)
MAY - SEPTEMBER
Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland; Townhouse, Air, Manor, Maison Rouge, England; Mediterraneo Studios, Ibiza (The Cross Shove It sessions)
1988
JANUARY 1988 – FEBRUARY 1989
Olympic and Townhouse Studios, London; Mountain Studios, Montreux (The Miracle sessions)
14 APRIL
Olympic Studios, London (Fan Club Convention session)
Dog With A Bone (three versions) | unreleased |
SOMETIME THIS YEAR
Townhouse Studios, London (Brian May solo session)
The Dark | Back To The Light | |
My Boy (demo) | unreleased | |
I'm Scared (demo) | unreleased |
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
Allerton Studios, Surrey (Brian May solo session)
MARCH | Back To The Light | Back To The Light |
Too Much Love Will Kill You | Back To The Light | |
I'm Scared (Justin Shirley-Smith remix, 1992) | Back To The Light | |
Last Horizon | Back To The Light | |
Let Your Heart Rule Your Head | Back To The Light | |
MARCH | Rollin' Over | Back To The Light |
Back To The Light (radio edit) | Back To The Light, 1992 | |
Too Much Love Will Kill You (guitar instrumental) | Too Much Love Will Kill You | |
Too Much Love Will Kill You (piano instrumental; misprint) | Too Much Love Will Kill You | |
I'm Scared (original version) | Too Much Love Will Kill You | |
Sleepy Blues | unreleased | |
Moody Keyboards (keyboard sounds one) | unreleased | |
Moody Keyboards (keyboard panpipes) | unreleased | |
Moody Keyboards (bells) | unreleased |
SOMETIME THIS YEAR
Jam Studios (The Cross sessions)
Celebration | The Lot | |
I Can Take You Higher | The Lot | |
I Can't Get You Out Of My Head | The Lot | |
Passion For Trash (Joshua J. Macrae vocals) | The Lot |
1989
MARCH 1989 – NOVEMBER 1990 (discontinuously)
Metropolis Studios, London; Mountain Studios, Montreux (Innuendo sessions)
SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER
Mountain Studios, Montreux (The Cross Mad: Bad: And Dangerous To Know sessions)