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+ | | [[Pain Is So Close To Pleasure (single) | Pain Is So Close To Pleasure, 1986 12" US single]] | ||
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+ | ::''Note:'' In the Autumn '86 fan club newsletter, it was reported that [[Pain Is So Close To Pleasure]] was re-recorded following the Magic tour for a US-exclusive release. The specifics – studio, personnel, etc. – of this are unknown, and it's likely that the single may have just been remixed instead of being a fresh recording, as the single was released on 26 August, giving the band, management, production team, and Capitol Records a little over two weeks to record, edit, mix, press, and distribute the single. | ||
Revision as of 15:33, 8 August 2011
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 |
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 | |
Back Chat (single version) | Back Chat, 1982 | |
Staying Power (extended version) | Back Chat, 1982 12" single | |
Back Chat (extended version) | Back Chat, 1982 12" single | |
27 JANUARY | Staying Power (demo) | unreleased |
7 FEBRUARY | Life Is Real (Song For Lennon) | unreleased |
Back Chat (demo) | unreleased | |
Wooly Hat (early version of Back Chat) | unreleased | |
Action This Day (demo) | unreleased | |
Put Out The Fire (vocal demo) | unreleased | |
Put Out The Fire (demo) | 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 |
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 | |
Son Of Star Fleet (actually an instrumental edit of a) | Star Fleet, 1983 | |
Star Fleet (single edit) | Star Fleet, UK 1983 | |
Star Fleet (single edit) | Star Fleet, US 1983 |
MID 1983 – EARLY 1984
Mountain Studios, Montreux; Musicland Studios, Munich (Roger Taylor Strange Frontier sessions)
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)
1984
JANUARY 1984 – JANUARY 1985 (discontinuously)
Musicland Studios, Munich (Freddie Mercury Mr. Bad Guy sessions)
SUMMER
Townhouse Studios, London, and Musicland Studios, Munich
Thank God It's Christmas | Thank God It's Christmas, 1984 | |
I Dream Of Christmas | unreleased |
- 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
SEPTEMBER
Mountain Studios, Montreux ("One Vision" single sessions)
One Vision (single edit) | One Vision, 1985 | |
Blurred Vision | One Vision, 1985 | |
One Vision (Extended Vision) | One Vision, 1985 12" single | |
One Vision (album version) | A Kind Of Magic |
- 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 | |
Time (extended version) | Time, 1986 12"/CD single | |
Time (instrumental) | Time, 1986 12"/CD single | |
Time (edit) | Time (soundtrack album) | |
Time (reprise) | Time (soundtrack album) |
MID-AUGUST 1986
unknown studio (Pain Is So Close To Pleasure session)
Pain Is So Close To Pleasure (single remix) | Pain Is So Close To Pleasure, 1986 7" US single | |
Pain Is So Close To Pleasure (extended) | Pain Is So Close To Pleasure, 1986 12" US single |
- Note: In the Autumn '86 fan club newsletter, it was reported that Pain Is So Close To Pleasure was re-recorded following the Magic tour for a US-exclusive release. The specifics – studio, personnel, etc. – of this are unknown, and it's likely that the single may have just been remixed instead of being a fresh recording, as the single was released on 26 August, giving the band, management, production team, and Capitol Records a little over two weeks to record, edit, mix, press, and distribute the single.
NOVEMBER
Townhouse Studios, London (Freddie Mercury solo session)
1987
JANUARY 1987 - MARCH 1988
Townhouse Studios, London; Mountain Studios, Montreux (Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé Barcelona sessions)
FEBRUARY - APRIL 1987
Townhouse Studios, London; Mountain Studios, Montreux (Freddie Mercury sessions)
3 FEB | It's So You | The Solo Collection |
11 FEB | Horns Of Doom | The Solo Collection |
17 FEB | I Can't Dance | The Solo Collection |
17 FEB | Keep Smilin' | The Solo Collection |
9 MAR | Yellow Breezes | The Solo Collection |
9 MAR | Holding On | The Solo Collection |
18 APR | Have A Nice Day | The Solo Collection |
It's So You | unreleased |
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)
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)
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)