Legendary rock band Queen will release a 'passionate' resurfaced new track recorded with the late Freddie Mercury.
The band made the revelation in a world exclusive during a chat with Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball during this weekend’s Platinum Jubilee coverage.
Band members Roger Taylor and Brian May said they had 'discovered' the song featuring Freddie's vocals but admitted they rather incredibly 'forgot about it'.
Roger explained: "Yes, we did find a little gem from Freddie, that we’d kind of forgotten about. And it was. It's wonderful. Actually, it was real discovery."
Since the rediscovery the band's engineering team have worked to restore the recording as host Ball gushed over the discovery adding: "This is incredible."
Replying in a riddle, lead guitarist May added: "It was kind of hiding in plain sight. We looked at it many times and thought, oh no, we can't really rescue that."
But since the rediscovery the band's 'wonderful' engineering team have 'stitched bits together' to restore the Miracle Sessions recording as host Ball gushed over the discovery adding: "This is incredible."
Mercury, who passed away in 1991 aged just 45 due to complications from AIDs, with Mother Love, co-written by Mercury and May, his last vocal performance.
After Peter Lamberts retirement, American Singer Adam Lambert was spotted to join Queen and tasked with the tall order of paying tribute as lead vocalist.
Following on from joining Adam on American Idol performance, Queen reconnected with Adam and he joined them onstage for an eight-minute medley at the 2011 MTV European Music Awards in Belfast, Ireland.
"There was an immediate [chemistry]," May said.
"We get on personally and that counts for a lot. And we were awestruck by his instrument and the way he used it. And then when we went onstage it felt natural.
"It didn't feel like we were trying to be anything that we weren’t."
Queen together with Adam Lambert, who became a more permanent member in 2012, were honoured to open the Platinum Party at the Palace on Saturday, performing We Will Rock You in front of the Victoria Memorial, outside Buckingham Palace.
May, of course famously performed a guitar solo of the national anthem on top of Buckingham Palace for Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee 20 years ago in 2002.
