Freddie Mercury Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona [CD]

Island Records announce the release on 3rd September 2012 of a special 25th Anniversary edition of Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballs classic Barcelona album. Im moving into opera now. Forget rock and roll. Freddie Mercury. 1987. Special film on the making of Barcelona - httpyoutu.bek1Umy0azDV0 25 years after the original release of the lead single Queen singer Freddie Mercurys most self-defining and personal work his Barcelona album recorded in collaboration with Spanish operatic soprano Montserrat Caball is to have a special re-release in an entirely newly orchestrated re-working. The special anniversary version of the album Barcelona The Special Edition is released September 3 coming around what would have been the singers 66th birthday. The original Barcelona album named after the Spanish city who would host the Olympics in 1992 and for which Mercury had been asked to write the theme song was to become the final solo work Mercury would complete. The title was also a tribute to the home city of his beloved recording partner Montserrat Caball with whom Freddie was captivated and had planned to perform the title song with at the opening of the 1992 Olympics opening ceremony. Sadly Mercury passed away eight months before this could happen. The Barcelona Special Edition album will be at the centre of a new groundswell of interest in the work of the late singer who died in November 1991 and in whose memory his birthday is now marked each year with the HIV AIDS fundraising day Freddie For A Day. Arriving at the same time will be a major new documentary The Great Pretender and a freshly authored and illustrated book Freddie Mercury The Great Pretender - A Life in Pictures which is released on September 3rd (Goodman25). The re-created Barcelona album is being hailed as the version Mercury would have wanted to make at the time had he felt able to work with a full symphony orchestra Barcelona - The Special Edition is finally the album it should have been. The world will undoubtedly rediscover and fall in love with it all over again. The only downside is that the visionary behind this masterpiece is sadly not around to hear it too. The album will be available in CD Deluxe CD and Digital formats to include bonus audio and DVD extras. See track listings. Barcelona- The Special Edition album release is accompanied by a brand new TVDVD documentary The Great Pretender (Eagle Rock) focusing on Freddies solo career and life outside Queen produced and directed by Rhys Thomas. The documentary features never-before-seen footage of Freddie including hilarious and emotional interviews re-discovered in the Queen archives for the first time recently. The Great Pretender is released on DVD Blu-ray on September 24. www.freddiemercury.com www.freddieforaday.com