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"3 MJ/Freddie Mercury demos from '83 to be released this year (swipe)"


  

          

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/michael-jackson-duets-with-freddie-mercury-set-for-release-20130729

>Michael Jackson Duets With Freddie Mercury Set for Release

Singers recorded three songs together 30 years ago

By ERIN COULEHAN
July 29, 2013 1:40 PM ET

Three duets that Michael Jackson recorded with Queen singer Freddie Mercury 30 years ago will finally see an official release later this year. According to The Times of London, the demos were recorded in 1983 at Jackson's home studio, but a larger project never came to fruition due to the singers' conflicting schedules.

"They were great songs, but the problem was time – as we were both very busy at that period," Mercury said in an excerpt from Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury.

Jackson told Rolling Stone that he was a fan of Mercury's, and that Mercury had reached out to him about the possibility of working together on the Jacksons' next album in 1983.

A studio session was set up and the two recorded three songs, but Queen's manager, Jim "Miami" Beach, recalls that the duo's meeting was a bit tumultuous. "Mercury rang me and said: 'Miami, dear, can you get over here? You've got to get me out of here, I'm recording with a llama,'" said Beach.

The songs,"There Must Be More to Life Than This," "State of Shock" and "Victory" (which provided the title of the Jacksons' 1984 album), were recorded but weren't cleared for release until 2011.

Queen guitarist Brian May confirmed that the tracks will be released this fall, and added that the songs are "exciting, challenging, emotionally taxing. But cool."

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3 MJ/Freddie Mercury demos from '83 to be released this year (swipe) [View all] , ZooTown74, Mon Jul-29-13 02:15 PM
 
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they are all painfully awful.
Jul 29th 2013
1
ya at least 2/3 of those are out there
Jul 29th 2013
2
They're basically rehearsal takes
Jul 30th 2013
9
thus answering the unasked question: "where are the 'victory' outtakes?!...
Jul 29th 2013
3
Right? I do want to hear MJ sing lead on all of those songs.
Jul 29th 2013
5
They had done about 15-20 songs by Spring '83
Jul 30th 2013
8
the llama part gave me a chuckle
Jul 29th 2013
4
"There Must Be More To Life Than This" ended up on
Jul 29th 2013
6
they were just there kinda tracks, though
Jul 29th 2013
7

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