OK this isn't relevant in Queen serious discussion but...
I had a really strange dream last night that there was an a whole album worth of stuff between Innuendo and Made In Heaven that was recorded c.1990-1991, and that Freddie had even made videos for it. I saw one of the videos which was a simple performance video but shot very much in the 1990s style, with that kind of dark lighting that was popular with groups like Cranberries and Manic Street Preachers.
Next part of the dream I was in a car with Freddie and he was explaining that he liked the album and wanted it released, but Brian and Roger had decided that the music wasn't good enough to be finished properly and that Freddie didn't look his best in the videos so they shelved it. Freddie was pissed off at this since he felt that he'd put a lot of effort into bringing Queen's sound into the '90s....
I don't know what the fuck I'd eaten in order to have such a dream, but how cool would it be if there was indeed another album of material being sat upon by the group. I've probably read too many posts on Queenzone about Maylor suppressing archive material. In my dream this was a finished album. When I woke up I could remember how the single sounded, but it faded.
Then there IS hope!!!!!
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Sounds interesting though. I've had similar dreams once or twice where I'd heard an UNHEARD (*possibly never existing) band song in my dreams before.
One was QUEEN as well. It felt triumphant like listening to a *COMPLETE MASTERWORK* (corrected from nonsense SWYPE typos)..a godly thing.
Funny.
Maybe I'd briefly tapped into the ether and actually channelled Freddie for a while (doubt it though).
Thing is, in the video, Freddie actually looked fine, but subdued. He didn't have his wand mic stand, it was more like the I want it all set up, but no beard, and thicker hair. I thought it was quite good. Shame I can't remember it otherwise I could play it on the piano and give you some of the lyrics and you could turn it into a song.
It's probably true, there probably is an edgy Queen album out there that Freddie wanted and Maylor hated LOL.... Let's start a rumour. It's easy to get anything about Freddie into the London Evening Standard!
I've had many vivid dreams about Queen. More so with either Freddie or John, most of which have been hanging out at their home.....
The last time I had a good chat with Freddie he reckons that John partook in backing vocals on most of their songs.
Although when I was chatting with John he said only a couple, that was a weird dream it felt like i was having a sleep over with his kids and it ended up turning into a weird interview with his wife and she was saying he doesn't like talking much then he came home and we had a chat about life thenI asked if I could ask one Queen related question and he was surprised it was about his singing. Apparently he has lots of tracks with him on vocals and was going to play some but I fucken woke up.....
But yeah nah they were very vivid.
And I have had a handful of dreams that I was on stage live with them singing or one when I was playing a cliff style bass solo and John was following through almost like a iron maiden twin guitar solo like phantom of the opera
all I can tell you is that the feel of the album was a little lower-key. It was stripped back in tone, you know kind of the way when they went from Queen II to Sheer Heart Attack, and then again from A Day at the Races to News of the World. This "hidden" album that doesn't exist except for in my mind was going from Innuendo to whatever their 90s stripped down sound would have been (actually Happiness? kind of touches on that, but it was much, much better than Happiness?).
The album was very much driven by Freddie's desire to absorb the musical landscape of the time. He was singing more in his baritone, and it hadn't much in the way of vocal landscapes or guitar orchestration. What it did have was kick-ass song writing, and meticulous playing from all of them, in a kind of live-feel situation. Brian was playing more on acoustic. The songs dealt with more political and existential themes. Freddie still had the range and power, but wasn't so interested in using it in the same way. He wanted to take a new direction. The band wanted to stay in their '80s rock guise, and that's why the album wasn't released.
Note, none of this is factual, it's all just in my head from a dream, but I guess that's what my subconscious thinks might have happened with Queen had Freddie lived longer.