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The Freddie Mercury Solo Collection
This Consists of,
Freddie’s three solo albums,
Mr Bad Guy
The Great Pretender
Barcelona
Two Singles Collections
1973 - 1985
1986 - 1993
The Instrumentals
Three Rarities CD’s
The David Wigg Interviews CD
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During the 1980s, Freddie Mercury--the flamboyant lead singer of Queen--launched a ... more
promising solo career that produced two wildly disparate albums, a handful of singlesand 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 1972/slightly pre-Queen Phil Spector tribute single, "I Can Hear Music" through his contributions to Giorgio Moroder'sMetropolissoundtrack, Dave Clark's musical theatre pieceTimeand the singer's delightfully overwrought remake of "The Great Pretender", a song he claimed as autobiography.--Jerry McCulley
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Advantages: Everything Freddie did solo Disadvantages: Expensive
...to begin with, this is the Ten CD, Two DVD version of the solo collection, that comes in a very nice large hardback book, the other more popular version is the 3 CD set with selected tracks form this version (which is also a whole lot cheaper).
When I first heard about this collection I was overjoyed, I’ve been a Queen fan for several years, in fact, and sadly, just after Freddie Mercury died. Its interesting to note that I haven’t ... .../>
So as the natural progression goes, I started to buy their solo stuff as well, not that there is that much of it about; unlike some bands, the members of Queen grew to respect each other, and they all had an equal footing within the group, they all wrote, played and sang (John Deacon though, only ever backing, (if that)), and each has written a major hit.
As for Freddie, most of his solo work was done in the mid eighties ... more
Just to begin with, this is the Ten CD, Two DVD version of the solo collection, that comes in a very nice large hardback book, the other more popular version is the 3 CD set with selected tracks form this version (which is also a whole lot cheaper).
When I first heard about this collection I was overjoyed, I’ve been a Queen fan for several years, in fact, and sadly, just after Freddie Mercury died. Its interesting to note that I haven’t met a person who hasn’t liked their music, which is probably why Queen are so successful. I have to say that anytime I hear their music I fall in love with it all over again, there is a certain something about it, that makes you feel so good inside (well it does me anyway).
So as the natural progression goes, I started to buy their solo stuff as well, not that there is that much of it about; unlike some bands, the members of Queen grew to respect each other, and they all had an equal footing within the group, they all wrote, played and sang (John Deacon though, only ever backing, (if that)), and each has written a major hit.
As for Freddie, most of his solo work was done in the mid eighties to the early nineties. As it was Freddie was forced to stop touring with Queen due to illness, and so used the time to do some solo stuff while he could, he also worked on Queen albums, and sadly he died on the 24th November 1991.
Freddie has a fantastic voice and is a fantastic singer, his on stage presents is awesome, and he was a prolific song writer and great musician. If there was anybody I’d would want to be, it’d probably be him.
This collection costs around £125.00, which disappointed me a lot because I’d never get it, but I allowed my wife to persuade me to let her get it for me, for Christmas, we ordered it over the Internet, otherwise I think you have to ask the shop if they could get it for you, or make do with the cheaper 3 CD version.
The Freddie Mercury Solo Collection This Consists of,
Freddie’s three solo albums, Mr Bad Guy The Great Pretender Barcelona
Two Singles Collections 1973 - 1985 1986 - 1993
The Instrumentals Three Rarities CD’s The David Wigg Interviews CD
The DVD’s are, The Video Collection The Untold Story
And it all comes in a very nice hard back book.
The CD’s The solo albums are brilliant in themselves, lets face it you all must of heard ‘Living On My Own’ and ‘Barcelona’, two great examples of his solo work. Although I say three solo albums, ones solo, ones with Monserrat Caballe, and the thirds a best of (the American version, the British being The Freddie Mercury Album). So there’s not a lot, the best of has some tracks that aren’t on the other albums, which is why its here, some of his songs also turned up on a Queen album, reworked, which together utilised the last work that Queen were working on.
The Singles Collections, are nice too, they mostly consist of Extended, Single and Re-mix versions of his singles, as well as none album B-sides, the nicest part is the fact that his first single from 1973 is included, ‘I Can Hear Music’ by Larry Lurex.
The Rarities are probably the best part of the collection, much like the Beatles anthologies and such that come out now, these three CD’s contain a lot of tracks that you can only get in this package, including early takes, demo’s, re-mixes, alternative versions, tracks that never made it, music that he did with other people, and one of the best pieces (but not sounding that good), is a live performance of when he was in a band called Ibex , singing ‘Rain’ by the Beatles. So there is plenty of stuff that you want to listen to, to see how the songs developed, hear the early demo’s and to hear ‘new’ songs, being the ones that were never finished.
The Instrumentals are mostly instrumental versions from the Barcelona album, although there are a couple of instrumentals of other songs.
The Interviews are ones with David Wigg stretching from 1979 to 1987. Not great in themselves, but still.
The DVD’s The Video Collection, the videos are ones from his singles, eleven altogether, again its nice to see. To have them is nice, on DVD is great.
The Untold Story is a documentary, it has been shown on TV, but this version is almost twice as long and its very informative. It tells of Freddie’s life from his early years in Zanzibar, to his later years in England, one thing is that it almost completely leaves out Queen, but if I wanted to know about Queen, I’d watch a Queen documentary. This is however, very interesting and told me things I never knew. Also on this DVD is the Freddie Mercury Photographic Exhibition, which you can view on you PC (if you have a DVD ROM drive)
The Book The 120 page hard back book comes in a slip case, and the CD’s/DVD’s are inside the covers. The book itself gives you all the information of the music on the CD’s/DVD’s, which is great (details I love). There is a piece of writing about Freddie and the rest of the book is made up of lots of very nice photo’s, taken at various time of Freddie’s life.
Having this Collection is great, it looks great and its a really nice thing to own, as any boxed set of something you like is, this though, is exceptional, its been put together very lovingly and is really worth the price, unlike some quickly thrown together sets.
Quibbles?, well having the CD’s and DVD’s in the book and not having a case for themselves, meaning to listen to them you have to get them out of the book first and have to look in the book for the track listing as well, is a little troublesome, and the fact that I have two of the albums anyway.................... but really I love it.
Being a Queen completist, I’m now a Freddie Mercury completist, because this seems to have all his work apart from Queen on it, so if you really like Queen you’ve got to get this, its fantastic.
seagulls-lost-horizon 24.06.2001 (25.10.2001)
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Review of The Freddie Mercury Solo Collection - Freddy Mercury
...as not many people appreciate the solo career Freddie had.
Mr.Bad Guy was a fantastic album and I feel very underated. When I played this album to my partner (not really a Queen fan) he loved it. I hope that people buying this Solo collection will also feel the same.
The whole Solo package offers three CD's in total, Mr.Bad Guy, Barcelona; a compilation of operatic tracks and a Bonus CD. It's a great selection and a wonderful opportunity to own ... ...surprised by the synthetic sound of these tracks, however, I feel they lend themselves perfectly to Freddies amazing voice and no-one else could have pulled it off like he did.
It is also affordable, as many boxed special editions aren't, so congratulations to EMI for releasing a superior product. ...
lucybradly 28.01.2001
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Advantages: A musical and visual extravaganza! Disadvantages: Too expensive for the average fan
On October 23rd, The Freddie Mercury Solo Collection is to be released. The releases are in various formats including a 10 CD and 2 DVD set presented in a deluxe 120 page slipcase hardback book includine a forward by Brian May. The formats then range from a 3 CD set and a Video collection on VHS and DVD. This is a true must for Freddie fans, however I have read on the queen on line site that the 10 cd pack will be in the region of £120.00. Whilst ... ...I have no doubt that the set will be excellent and a must for those with money to burn - however I find that the cost is out of my reach. I shall have to settle for the 3 cd set or the video! Knowing the quality of Freddie's work. Whilst I would recommend anyone to part with their cash for this musical and visual portrait of one of the world's best showmen, I do wish that the cost were lower.The music featured in this set is from Freddie's previous ...
rveb 20.10.2000
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Advantages: Digitally remastered version of eagerly sought after tracks 3 CDs for £18.00! Disadvantages: The price of the full collection - £120.00
The new Freddie Mercury Solo Collection was released this week and to my surpise it is affordable!! You can pick up a 3 CD (yes that's 3 Cds) for just £17.99 - a bargain I am sure you will agree! There is of course the more expensove de-lux version costing £120.00 but for any fan (not serious collectors) the 3 cd choice is ample. If you are familiar with Freddie's sole work then you will recognise all tracks in the package but for the first time, ... ...joke just before Queen hit the big time! And, of course there is the Mr Bad Guy album , the original of which is getting rarer and rarer - I recently sold a Mint US vinyl copy for £50.00!! So it is a real joy to have a 2000 digitally remastered version - if you are looking for an original version of the Cd watch out now that there are 2000 versions on sale!!
Overall, however the package, which also includes the Barcelona album is a bargain and an ...
rveb 28.10.2000
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Advantages: Bargain, and some good songs aswell Disadvantages: A few duff songs too though
...his debut Mr Bad Guy, the classic Barcelona album and an extra disc containing all his other solo stuff such as The Great Pretender and Love Kills.
It is a bargain.
Okay, so the quality of the first album is a little lacking - there are some good songs here but certainly no classics. It plods along and suffers from some simplistic arrangements more than bad songwriting. As ever though, Freddie's vocas are very impressive.
It's the second album ... ...I thinkmost people think that the idea of Freddie Mercury singing opera would be dreadful, but no it's got loads of good songs on it, the best one being The Golden Boy which is opera come gospel come ballad. Really well written and performed.
The final CD is the most accessible, and contains all his singles including a surprise Beach Boys cover that was recorded before he joined Queen and is quite good song on it own.
Overall, I was pleased with ...
minaturehero 22.01.2001
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