9 March 1987 – Freddie Mercury and Mike Moran continue to work on new tracks at Town House Studios in London. The two demos recorded, “Yellow Breezes” and “Holding On”
Freddie began recording several demos that were never quite finished. It was unknown if he was planning on contributing them to the upcoming Queen sessions for ‘The Miracle’ or perhaps ‘Innuendo’ or if he planned on recording another solo project. These tracks remained unpublished until 2000 when they were included on ‘The Freddie Mercury Solo Collection.’
The poppy and fun track ‘Yellow Breezes’ is one of the more interesting compositions to be released on ‘The Solo Collection.’ It was recorded during the sessions for ‘Barcelona’ on the 9th of March 1987 at Townhouse Studios in London, but is the polar opposite of the sound Freddie was trying to achieve on that album. It’s a one-off track that was recorded after the release of “The Great Pretender” single.
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4 March 1981… Alicia Villar was 19 years old when Queen came to Mar del Plata. She got a very good place to see Queen, right to the front of the stage. The following day she would be privileged to meet Freddie and John in the foyer of the Provincial Hotel thanks to a chain of lucky events.“Two journalists from Pelo magazine told us Queen were staying at the Provincial Hotel. We went to a disco with them and they asked us if we wanted to meet Queen. We thought they were joking, but we arranged to meet at 5 the following day at the hotel. The show had been completely atypical for Mar del Plata at that moment as not many important bands visited…let alone one as big as Queen.”
