Never Boring - Freddie Mercury

Box Set C.D+Blu-ray+DVD • Mercury Records • 0602577410499.

2019 • Europe.

Contents:

Never Boring · 12-track compilation · C.D.

Mr. Bad Guy · 2019 Special Edition · C.D.

Barcelona · 2012 Orchestral Edition · C.D.

Never Boring · Videos compilation · Blu-ray / DVD.

120-pages hardback book.

1 postcard.

 Box back cover.

 Gatefold (C.D's)

 Inner gatefold.

 C.D 1 · Never Boring.

 C.D 2 - Mr. Bad Guy.

 C.D 3 · Barcelona.

 Gatefold (Blu-ray/DVD).

 Inner gatefold.

 Blu-ray cover.

 Back cover.

 Blu-ray.

 DVD cover.

 Back cover.

DVD.

 Poster.

Poster.

Book:

Notes:

“You can do anything with my work, but never make me boring.”

Freddie Mercury.

Released by Hollywood Records in North America and Mercury Records in the rest of the world on October 11 2019, the “Never Boring” box set brought together for the first time a specially-curated selection of Freddie Mercury’s music, visuals and written and spoken words. It is was a collection to jog the memory of fans, old and new, as to why Freddie remains such a beloved figure, nearly 30 years after his death. 

Taken from the very best original source material available, the full “Never Boring” collection contained three CDs with 32 tracks; a Blu-ray and DVD featuring 13 promo videos and interview; a 120-page 10”x10” hardback book full photos, many of them rare and unpublished, as well as thoughts and choice quotes from Freddie himself, and an introduction from Rami Malek, who earned an Oscar for his portrayal of Freddie in Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Specially created insert packaging includes a double-sided poster containing an image of Freddie and an original work from synesthetic artist Jack Coulter inspired by the song “Mr Bad Guy”. 

The three CDs included a new 12-track compilation of many of Freddie’s greatest solo performances; a newly mixed 11-track special edition of “Mr Bad Guy”; and the nine-track 2012 special edition of “Barcelona” featuring full orchestra. The Blu-ray and DVD of Freddie’s promos and his stage performances with Montserrat Caballé include eight that have been painstakingly reassembled from the original 35mm film rushes to give them the best-ever visual and sound quality. The albums were also individually available on CD, vinyl and on digital and streaming services. 

The set included the recently discovered track “Time Waits For No One” produced by Dave Clark which has recently taken the internet by storm and a haunting little known track “Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow” immortalised in a new animated video by award winning duo Beth David and Esteban Bravo. 

For all the 2019 ‘special edition’ tracks on “Never Boring” and the “Mr Bad Guy” album, sound team Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson have taken the very best original source material available. They went back not to previously remastered and mixed tapes, but to the original source multi-track tapes, so that they could build a new mix true to Freddie’s original versions, now taking advantage of the time, resources and technology that Freddie may not have originally had available to him in the 1980s. All offer ultimate quality, first generation vocals showing off Freddie’s incredible vocal range. 

The special edition of the “Barcelona” album had been reworked in 2012 using similar methods, but what was missed by many at the time was that the 2012 edition replaced the previous instrumental tracks with new, live symphonic orchestration and percussion, rather than synthesisers and drum machines used on the original album. 

The same painstaking care in rebuilding the audio tracks has been used to bring all of Freddie’s original video promos to life again. 

The entire “Never Boring” package reflects Freddie’s eclectic tastes and love for life. As he himself said: “Some people can take second best, but I can’t. I look upon it as defeat. If you’ve got the taste of being number one, then number two isn’t good enough.”

Source:  http://www.freddiemercury.com/en/archive#never_boring

Video:

Never Boring · Animated Unboxing.