by Jane Stevenson, QMI Agency / Last Updated: 4:44 PM ET
Freddie Mercury may be long gone but he’s hardly forgotten.
The memory of Queen’s flamboyant frontman, who died in 1991 from complications from AIDS, is being kept alive in a new biopic and new 2014 album by the British rockers.
The movie is now starring British actor Ben Whishaw (Q in Skyfall) - after Sacha Baron Cohen dropped out - and there’s a new Queen album in the works using long forgotten Mercury vocals including two duets with the late Michael Jackson.
“It’s not demos actually, it’s actual material that we recorded,” said Queen drummer Roger Taylor, 64, whose just released his fifth solo album, Fun on Earth (Nov. 11) featuring a guest appearance by legendary British guitarist Jeff Beck (The Yardbirds).
“I got to admit I’d forgotten about most of it because, you know, you work on a different song everyday and then the ones that you don’t end up actually developing, get forgotten. Some of it’s very good actually. I’m quite surprised what they’ve come up. I think they’re unheard songs. There’s different things. It’s all a bit of a mix at the moment and (Queen guitarist) Brian (May)’s working more on that than I am in the moment. I’ve been doing all this other stuff. But I will be getting together with him in the new year to finish what we’ve got there and then we’re going to fashion some kind of album although the exact shape and form of it I’m not sure yet.”
As for the MJ duets?
“It depends on the Michael Jackson estate getting themselves together,” said Taylor. “It’s not the easiest thing I think - getting any feedback. But one of those tracks is in great shape and the other one just needs some work.”
We caught up with Taylor recently down the line from his Surrey, England home.
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