The Solo Collection is a
compilationbox set detailing the solo career of
Freddie Mercury; it includes the material Mercury recorded before joining up with
Queen, up through the 1993 No More Brothers remixes. Mercury's two studio albums are included, along with various single edits and non-album singles, B-sides, remixes, instrumentals, collaborations, a large number of demo recordings and a set of interviews conducted by David Wigg. Also included are two DVDs: a collection of Mercury's promotional music videos, and a documentary covering his life.
1987, Ibiza (41st birthday. Pt. 2 Montserrat Caballé) – 8:21
1987, Ibiza (41st birthday. Pt. 3 The Great Pretender) – 10:26
Disc eleven: The Video Collection (DVD)
Barcelona (Live Version) (Mercury/Moran)
The Great Pretender (Single Version) (Ram)
I Was Born to Love You (Mercury)
Time (Clark/Christie)
How Can I Go On (Mercury/Moran)
Made in Heaven (Mercury)
Living on My Own (Mercury)
The Golden Boy (Mercury/Moran/Rice)
The Great Pretender (Extended Version) (Ram)
Barcelona (Mercury/Moran)
In My Defence (Re-edit 2000) (Clark/Soames/Daniels)
Guide Me Home (Mercury/Moran)
Disc twelve: The Untold Story (DVD)
Spice Island Dawn
Strange Discipline
Culture Shock
The Draftsman Of Ealing
Musical Awakenings
Love of My Life
Bacchus And Aphrodite
Butterflies And Peacocks
A Day At The Opera
My Kind Of Towns
Last Days
In early prints of the Solo Collection box, the third chapter of the DVD, "Culture Shock", includes what is described in the audio commentary by the filmmakers,
Rudi Dolezal and
Hannes Rossacher of
DoRo Productions, as a reconstruction of a
Parsi initiation religious ceremony. This segment was completely edited out from all subsequent reprints of the DVD as it was considered potentially offensive. It is also absent from the second version of the documentary, released in 2006 as Disc 1 of Lover of Life, Singer of Songs, the DVD release accompanying the
same-titled compilation CD of Mercury solo recordings.
The box set was also released as a three-disc sampler titled Solo. This edition contains Mercury's two original studio albums, as well as a third disc of selected tracks from the twelve-disc box set.
Disc one
Mr. Bad Guy
Disc two
Barcelona
Disc three (Bonus CD)
I Can Hear Music (Larry Lurex, 1973 Single) – 3:29
Love Kills (Original 1984 Single Version) – 4:31
The Great Pretender (Original 1987 Single Version) – 3:29
The Solo Collection is a
compilationbox set detailing the solo career of
Freddie Mercury; it includes the material Mercury recorded before joining up with
Queen, up through the 1993 No More Brothers remixes. Mercury's two studio albums are included, along with various single edits and non-album singles, B-sides, remixes, instrumentals, collaborations, a large number of demo recordings and a set of interviews conducted by David Wigg. Also included are two DVDs: a collection of Mercury's promotional music videos, and a documentary covering his life.
1987, Ibiza (41st birthday. Pt. 2 Montserrat Caballé) – 8:21
1987, Ibiza (41st birthday. Pt. 3 The Great Pretender) – 10:26
Disc eleven: The Video Collection (DVD)
Barcelona (Live Version) (Mercury/Moran)
The Great Pretender (Single Version) (Ram)
I Was Born to Love You (Mercury)
Time (Clark/Christie)
How Can I Go On (Mercury/Moran)
Made in Heaven (Mercury)
Living on My Own (Mercury)
The Golden Boy (Mercury/Moran/Rice)
The Great Pretender (Extended Version) (Ram)
Barcelona (Mercury/Moran)
In My Defence (Re-edit 2000) (Clark/Soames/Daniels)
Guide Me Home (Mercury/Moran)
Disc twelve: The Untold Story (DVD)
Spice Island Dawn
Strange Discipline
Culture Shock
The Draftsman Of Ealing
Musical Awakenings
Love of My Life
Bacchus And Aphrodite
Butterflies And Peacocks
A Day At The Opera
My Kind Of Towns
Last Days
In early prints of the Solo Collection box, the third chapter of the DVD, "Culture Shock", includes what is described in the audio commentary by the filmmakers,
Rudi Dolezal and
Hannes Rossacher of
DoRo Productions, as a reconstruction of a
Parsi initiation religious ceremony. This segment was completely edited out from all subsequent reprints of the DVD as it was considered potentially offensive. It is also absent from the second version of the documentary, released in 2006 as Disc 1 of Lover of Life, Singer of Songs, the DVD release accompanying the
same-titled compilation CD of Mercury solo recordings.
The box set was also released as a three-disc sampler titled Solo. This edition contains Mercury's two original studio albums, as well as a third disc of selected tracks from the twelve-disc box set.
Disc one
Mr. Bad Guy
Disc two
Barcelona
Disc three (Bonus CD)
I Can Hear Music (Larry Lurex, 1973 Single) – 3:29
Love Kills (Original 1984 Single Version) – 4:31
The Great Pretender (Original 1987 Single Version) – 3:29