{"id":487220,"date":"2019-06-20T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=849596"},"modified":"2019-06-20T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:04:09","slug":"see-freddie-mercury-belt-time-waits-for-no-one-in-unreleased-new-solo-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-freddie-mercury-belt-time-waits-for-no-one-in-unreleased-new-solo-clip\/","title":{"rendered":"See Freddie Mercury Belt \u2018Time Waits for No One\u2019 in Unreleased New Solo Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dave Clark remembers how he felt when he heard Freddie Mercury<\/a> sing his song, \u201cTime Waits for No One,\u201d for the first time. \u201cIt gave me goosebumps,\u201d he tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI thought, \u2018This is magic.’\u201d<\/p>\n

The song was originally part of Time<\/em>, a musical that was spearheaded by Clark, best known as the former leader and drummer of the Dave Clark Five<\/a>. When Mercury\u2019s recording of \u201cTime,\u201d which Clark cowrote with John Christie, came out on the soundtrack for the musical, it was schmaltzy and heavily produced<\/a> with thick layers of backing vocals and heavy drums. It was also a big hit, making it to Number 32 on the U.K. chart. Now Clark has stripped the song down to the way he originally heard it for a special release out Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new version features only Mercury\u2019s voice and piano played by Mike Moran, who went on to accompany the Queen<\/a> singer on his Barcelona<\/em> solo album. Mercury\u2019s voice starts smooth and scrunches and contorts into rougher sounds as he sings lines like, \u201cWe\u2019ve got to build this world together or we might have no future at all, because time waits for nobody.\u201d The stripped-back arrangement shines a spotlight on his vocal acrobatics in a way that was lost in the original, and it\u2019s Mercury\u2019s already well-recognized talent that Clark hopes people hear in the new recording.<\/p>\n

\u201cFreddie asked me, \u2018How do you want me to perform this?’\u201d Clark recalls. \u201cI said, \u2018As a cross between Edith Piaf, Jennifer Holliday and Shirley Bassey.\u2019 He said, \u2018Well, dear. I have all the dresses. I can do it perfectly.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark first met Mercury in 1976 when Queen played a powerhouse set at London\u2019s Hyde Park. \u201cI stood on the wings of the stage, and I was taken aback because this guy came out in a black leotard, and I thought, \u2018Wow, what\u2019s this? Liza Minelli?’\u201d Clark recalls. \u201cAnd then he opened his mouth and sang. It was unbelievable. What a performer. And the show went down amazingly.\u201d The show ran long and the band wasn\u2019t allowed to play an encore \u2014 London police threatened to arrest Mercury if he tried to get back onstage \u2014 so Clark accompanied them to restaurant Mr. Chow and they hit it off. It helped, too, that Mercury was a big fan of the Dave Clark Five, whose \u201cGlad All Over\u201d toppled the Beatles\u2019 \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand\u201d for the Number One spot in the U.K. in 1964.<\/p>\n