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The long history of the 'new' Freddie Mercury song

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 25 Jun 2019, 1:56PM
Dave Clark worked with Freddie Mercury on the song back in 1986. (Photo / Getty)

The long history of the 'new' Freddie Mercury song

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 25 Jun 2019, 1:56PM

The story behind the new Freddie Mercury song has been revealed.

Last week, an unreleased track, with accompany music video, for Time Waits For No One, was released last week. 

It originates from a concept album for the 1986 musical Time, from UK musician Dave Clark.

Clark rose to fame with his beat group, the Dave Clark Five, and was briefly The Beatle's biggest threat during the 1960s.

He went on to write Time and develop a concept album that went with it. 

He joined Mike Hosking to discuss his career, how the 'new' Freddie Mercury song came to be, and his surprise at the 

 

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