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Solo Collection
Queen's American stock may have fallen somewhat in the 1980s. By following singer Freddie Mercury's lead and embracing more club- and cabaret-oriented music, however, the band saw its international appeal explode. During that era, Mercury also launched a promising solo career that produced two wildly disparate albums, a handful of singles, and contributions to other projects that are documented in this three-disc collection. While 1985's "Mr. Bad Guy" finds Mercury's melodramatic vocal flair struggling to overpower his sometimes patchy songwriting and the dated Euro-disco production of Reinhold Mack, the singer rose to the campy heights of "Bohemian Rhapsody"--and then some--on "Barcelona," his grand, neo-operatic collaboration with Spanish diva Montserrat Caballe and one of the most deliriously ambitious pop albums of modern times. Both are available here in sharp, digitally remastered sound. The third bonus disc gives another broad outline of Mercury's talents, from the rare, surprising slightly pre-Queen (1972) Phil Spector tribute single, "I Can Hear Music" through his contributions to Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis soundtrack, Dave Clark's musical theater piece Time, and the singer's delightfully overwrought remake of "The Great Pretender," a song he claimed as autobiography. --Jerry McCulley
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Tracks| 1 | Let's Turn It On | | 2 | Made in Heaven | | 3 | I Was Born to Love You | | 4 | Foolin' Around | | 5 | Your Kind of Lover | | 6 | Mr. Bad Guy | | 7 | Man Made Paradise | | 8 | There Must Be More to Life Than This | | 9 | Living on My Own | | 10 | My Love Is Dangerous | | 11 | Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow | | 12 | Barcelona | | 13 | La Japonaise | | 14 | The Fallen Priest - Freddie Mercury, Rice, Tim | | 15 | Ensueño - Freddie Mercury, Caballe, Montserrat | | 16 | The Golden Boy - Freddie Mercury, Rice, Tim | | 17 | Guide Me Home | | 18 | How Can I Go On? | | 19 | Overture Piccante |
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