Queen - The Miracle 2022 (5CD & 1LP Collectors Edition Box Set)

Having generated a media firestorm back in the summer when band members Brian May and Roger Taylor first leaked news of a rediscovered Queen song featuring Freddie Mercury being considered for possible release, the highly anticipated ‘lost’ track, ‘Face It Alone’, will be released on October 13th with a global first play on BBC Radio 2. The track’s existence was first revealed by May and Taylor in a BBC radio interview at their appearance at this year’s Royal Jubilee concert at which they performed the opening with their regular singer Adam Lambert, with Roger Taylor describing it as “a little gem from Freddie that we’d kind of forgotten about”, with Brian May saying “it’s beautiful, it’s touching.” The track’s arrival as a single leads in a November 18 release of a new revisiting of the band’s 13th album, The Miracle, the band’s penultimate to be released in Freddie Mercury’s lifetime, which now becomes available in a lavish 8-disc Queen The Miracle Collector’s Edition box set format. Among its contents, the expanded set includes The Miracle Sessions: an hour-plus disc of further previously unreleased recordings, including six unpublished songs. Just as tantalising for fans, the audio includes the band’s candid spoken exchanges on the studio floor in London and Montreux, giving the most revealing window yet into the four members’ creative process and the joy, in-jokes and banter on their return to working together.

CD1 - 2011 Bob Ludwig Master:

1. Party

2. Khashoggi's Ship

3. The Miracle

4. I Want It All

5. The Invisible Man

6. Breakthru

7. Rain Must Fall

8. Scandal

9. My Baby Does Me

10. Was It All Worth It

CD2 - The Miracle Sessions:

1. Party (Original Take)

2. Khashoggi’s Ship (Original Take)

3. The Miracle (Original Take With John’s Ending)

4. I Want It All (Original Take)

5. The Invisible Man (Early Version With Guide Vocal)

6. When Love Breaks Up (Demo)

7. Breakthru (Real Drums And Bass)

8. Rain Must Fall (Demo)

9. Scandal (Original Rough Mix)

10. My Baby Loves Me

11. Was It All Worth It (Original Take)

12. You Know You Belong To Me

13. I Guess We’re Falling Out (Demo)

14. Dog With A Bone

15. Water (Demo)

16. Face It Alone

CD3 - Alternative Miracle:

1. I Want It All (Single Version)

2. Hang On In There [B-Side]

3. Breakthru (12” Version)

4. Stealin’ [B-Side]

5. The Invisible Man (12” Version)

6. Hijack My Heart [B-Side]

7. Scandal (12” Version)

8. My Life Has Been Saved [B-Side]

9. Stone Cold Crazy (Live At The Rainbow, London '74) [B-Side]

10. My Melancholy Blues (Live At Houston, Texas ’77) [B-Side]

11. Chinese Torture [Instrumental]

CD4 - Miracu-mentals:

1. Party (Instrumental)

2. Khashoggi's Ship (Backing Track)

3. The Miracle (Backing Track)

4. I Want It All (Backing Track)

5. The Invisible Man (Backing Track)

6. Breakthru (Backing Track)

7. Rain Must Fall (Backing Track)

8. Scandal (Backing Track)

9. My Baby Does Me (Backing Track)

10. Was It All Worth It (Backing Track)

CD5 - The Miracle Interviews:

1. Queen For An Hour (Trailer)

2. Queen For An Hour (Roger, John, Freddie & Brian with Mike Read)

3. Queen For An Hour (Trailer Out-takes)

4. Rockline (Brian & Roger with Bob Coburn)

BLU-RAY / DVD - The Miracle Promo Videos:

1. I Want It All (Promo Video)

2. Breakthru (Promo Video)

3. The Invisible Man (Promo Video)

4. Scandal (Promo Video)

5. The Miracle (Promo Video)

6. Was It All Worth It (Promo Video)

7. The Making Of The Miracle Videos (Compiled by Rudi Dolezal, this feature contains behind the scenes footage of I Want It All, Scandal, The Miracle and Breakthru videos)

8. The Miracle Interviews (Interviews with Roger, Brian and John on the set of the Breakthru film shoot in June 1989, by Gavin Taylor. John has given no further interviews since that day)

9. The Making Of The Miracle Album Cover (Filmed in 1989, Queen’s graphic designer Richard Gray talks about and demonstrates how he made the ground-breaking The Miracle album cover)

LP - Long Lost Original LP Cut:

1. Party 

2. Khashoggi's Ship

3. The Miracle 

4. I Want It All 

5. Too Much Love Will Kill You 

6. The Invisible Man 

7. Breakthru

8. Rain Must Fall 

9. Scandal 

10. My Baby Does Me

11. Was It All Worth It