{"id":491215,"date":"2019-10-14T02:45:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T08:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=898477"},"modified":"2019-10-14T02:45:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T08:45:26","slug":"watch-new-lyric-video-for-freddie-mercurys-debut-solo-single-love-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-new-lyric-video-for-freddie-mercurys-debut-solo-single-love-kills\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch New Lyric Video for Freddie Mercury\u2019s Debut Solo Single \u2018Love Kills\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shutterstock_editorial_10199834b.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Hollywood Records has released a new lyric video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/freddie-mercury\/\" id=\"auto-tag_freddie-mercury\" data-tag=\"freddie-mercury\">Freddie Mercury<\/a>\u2019s 1984 track \u201cLove Kills,\u201d the singer\u2019s first-ever solo single. The track features an enhanced audio mix and comes off the recently-released <em>Freddie Mercury Never Boring<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/freddie-mercury-animated-love-me-like-theres-no-tomorrow-video-880358\/\">box set<\/a>. The lyric video, animated by Justin Moon, was inspired by Studio 54 and \u201980s disco.<\/p>\n<p>The song originally appeared on the soundtrack of music producer Giorgio Moroder\u2019s restored version of 1927 silent film <em>Metropolis<\/em>. The track hit the charts, landing at No. 10 in the U.K., but was also nominated for a Razzie award for \u201cWorst Original Song\u201d (it didn\u2019t win). Although it was released as a solo single, the song features all four members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/queen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_queen\" data-tag=\"queen\">Queen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Never Boring<\/em> box set collects a specially-curated selection of Freddie Mercury\u2019s music, visuals and written and spoken words. It was compiled and produced by Queen\u2019s longtime sound team Justin Shirley-Smith, Kris Fredriksson and Joshua J Macrae, who also co-produced the <em>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em> soundtrack. The release includes three CDs with 32 tracks, a Blu-ray and DVD featuring 13 promo videos and interview, a 120-page 10\u201dx10\u201d hardback book full photos, and an introduction from Rami Malek, who played Mercury in <em>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em>. It also includes a 12-track compilation of Mercury\u2019s solo efforts, including \u201cLove Kills,\u201d \u201cBarcelona\u201d and \u201cMr. Bad Guy.\u201d The box set is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freddiemercury.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to purchase<\/a> now on CD and will be released on vinyl October 25th.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lyric-video-freddie-mercury-love-kills-898477\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood Records has released a new lyric video for Freddie Mercury\u2019s 1984 track \u201cLove Kills,\u201d the singer\u2019s first-ever solo single. The track features an enhanced audio mix and comes off the recently-released Freddie Mercury Never Boring box set. The lyric video, animated by Justin Moon, was inspired by Studio 54 and \u201980s disco. The song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 00:32:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}