May ‘Incensed’ By Leaked Jackson/Mercury Tracks
Queen guitarist Brian May is angry after “music thieves” exploited Michael Jackson’s death by releasing previously unheard tracks by Jackson and Queen’s late frontman Freddie Mercury on the Internet.
Jackson and Mercury worked together in the 1980s on a number of tracks that have never been heard officially by the public.
May revealed the existence of the songs last week, saying: “He [Jackson] used to come and see us when we were on tour in the States.
“He and Freddie became close friends, close enough to record a couple of tracks together at Michael’s house, tracks which have never seen the light of day.”
But May has been left incensed after two tunes by the pair, State Of Shock and There Must Be More To Life Than This, ended up on YouTube.
May fumed: “The music thieves at work as usual.”
Out of respect to May, we won’t give you the links to the abovementioned tracks.
But we must admit we have done a sneaky YouTube search ourselves… and it turns out one version of State Of Shock was posted all of three years ago.
Hmm. Maybe not a cast-iron case of the vultures circling after all…
yeah your right i heard them tracks on youtube ages ago
These tracks have existed for decades without any “legal” way for fans to hear them.. FFS… of course the fans are gonna be curious and search for them on the net. If Mr May is so concerned then why not release them officially, Im sure the fans would love to buy them…. Dont get yer panties in a bunch Brian..
Theres no explotation of Wacko jackos death involved at all.
With all due respect to Brian May, but doesn’t the mere fact of mentioning these songs after Jackson’s death seem a bit of exploiting his death as well. Why weren’t these released after Mercury’s death? Chill out, Brian, us music fans will alway search out the rarities, demos, and bootlegs from all sorts of bands and you will still get your monthly royalty check.
seems that may wanna sell them himself now that both singers are worm food they cant say if they wanna release them or not
with all due respeact to all above….
These tracks are/were owned by Mr Jackson, and therefore could not be released by either Queen Productions or Mercury Songs (the two companies that control the Queen/Freddie catalogue.
The fact that bootleggers have gone against both Freddie and Michael’s wishes for the tracks to remain private is just not cricket