Queen Hail, Freedonia 1983

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      In early 1983 Freddie Mercury started working on songs for what would become his first solo album, Mr. Bad Guy. Brian May worked with some other musicians, such as Eddie Van Halen, for the EP Star Fleet Project. Queen's drummer, Roger Taylor, was recording his solo album Strange Frontiers. Bassist John Deacon was collaborating with Man Friday & Junior Jive.
      Taylor's album had Mercury contributing backing vocals on one song, May playing rhythm guitar on another song and Deacon on bass on a different song. I originally wanted to use all three songs for this unofficial Queen album but in their discography there were usually only three songs where Mercury was not the lead singer so I chose "It's an Illusion' (with Deacon) and "Man on Fire" (with May) from Strange Frontier. Since I had two from Taylor that left one for May: "Let Me Out". The rest of the songs are from Mr. Bad Guy except for "She Blows Hot and Cold" which was the B-side to "Made in Heaven". However, the version I chose of "Made in Heaven" and "I Was Born to Love You" are the versions that the rest of Queen added their parts to Mercury's vocals.



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