Messenger Of The Gods (The Singles)

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Album Info

Release Date: 2016-09-02

Label: Mercury

The Freddie Mercury solo 7" singles on coloured vinyl
All 13 discs together for the first time.

Includes digital download card.
Also includes 7" square staple bound soft cover booklet, with tracklisting, song durations, 7" singles discography, photographs and write-up about each song in the set.
Two piece lift-off lid type box. The interior section of both the base and lid section are printed matte black.
There is no printed text whatever to the base section. The lid section has print to the face and one spine only.
There is an L-shaped contents insert sheet at the base.
Each disc is held in a side opening card picture sleeve.
Hype sticker applied to the shrink-wrap.

Note: although the set is credited to the artist "Freddie Mercury" some individual vinyl sides are credited to the original artists as released:
Tracks 1-A and 1-B: Larry Lurex
Tracks 9-A, 10-A, 10-B, 11-A and 11-B: Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé
Track 9-B: Montserrat Caballé

Track timings not given on vinyl, but taken from booklet.

Two tracks are different versions than featured on the original 7" vinyls:
Track 7-A "Time" is the '2000 Remix' (by Dave Clark), instead of the single/album version featured on the original 1986 7" vinyl.
Track 12-A "In My Defense" is the '2000 Remix' (by Dave Clark), instead of the Ron Nevison remix featured on the original 1992 7" vinyl.

For some tracks, the version is not given on the release:
Track 5-A "Living On My Own" is the Single Edit.
Track 9-A "Barcelona" is the Single Version.
Track 10-A "The Golden Boy" is the Single Edit.
Track 11-A "How Can I Go On" is the Single Version.
Track 11-B "The Fallen Priest" is the B-side Edit.

Track titles in booklet vary from the vinyl labels in the following tracks:
Track 4-A: "Made In Heaven"
Track 8-B: "Exercises In Free Love (Freddie's Vocal)"
Track 9-B: "Exercises In Free Love (Montserrat's Vocal)"
Track 13-A: "Living On My Own (No More Brothers Radio Mix)"
Track 13-B: "Living On My Own (Julian Raymond Album Mix)"

Runouts are hand etched. Some contain mirrored geometric plating marks.

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