# Freddie Mercury song just released

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 20, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddie-mercury-song-just-released/835794 "2019-06-20T12:04:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddie-mercury-song-just-released/835794/1 "2019-06-20T12:04:48Z")

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It is called [“Time Waits For No One”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=169&v=LGjt291COa0). Nice solo by Mercury.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddie-mercury-song-just-released/835794/2 "2019-06-20T15:20:08Z")

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I don’t know why it isn’t starting at the beginning of the song-sorry.

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**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddie-mercury-song-just-released/835794/3 "2019-06-20T15:23:26Z")

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Thanks for sharing. I find the song itself lackluster but, \*it’s Freddie!\*I don’t think there will ever be a time that I will be able to see his image and not get a lump in my throat.

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**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddie-mercury-song-just-released/835794/4 "2019-06-20T16:58:48Z")

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Very cool! I just sent this to my mom who is crazy about Freddie. She already bought the song as soon as it came out, ha!

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**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddie-mercury-song-just-released/835794/5 "2019-06-21T21:30:40Z")

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I have to think that was a song dropped from their Highlander soundtrack.

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freddie-mercury-song-just-released/835794/6 "2019-06-22T05:51:32Z")

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> [@CarnalK](#):
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> I have to think that was a song dropped from their Highlander soundtrack.

The song was, as I understand it, written for [the 1986 musical _Time_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(musical)). It was apparently written by Dave Clark (of the Dave Clark Five), David Soames, and Jeff Daniels.

However, I had the same impression as you did when I heard the newly-released track – it feels a lot like the music that Freddie and Queen had done for _Highlander_, both in the style of the singing, and in the lyrics. In particular, it reminds me a lot of “Who Wants to Live Forever.”