Lover Of Life, Singer Of Songs
The Very Best Of Freddie Mercury Solo

Released 4 September 2006, reached no 6 in the chart, weeks on chart unknown, award status unknown
US release date 21 November 2006.

Available as a single or double CD set

CD 1 Length 79:01; CD 2 Length 75:06

CD One:
In My Defence (2000 Remix) | The Great Pretender | Living On My Own (1993 Radio Remix) | Made In Heaven | Love Kills | There Must Be More To Life Than This | Guide Me Home | How Can I Go On | Foolin' Around (1992 Remix) | Time (original single version) | Barcelona (album version) | Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow | I Was Born To Love You | The Golden Boy | Mr Bad Guy | The Great Pretender (Malouf Mix) | Love Kills (Star Rider Remix) | I Can Hear Music | Going Back | Guide Me Home (Thierry Lang)

CD Two:
Love Kills (Sunshine People Radio Mix) | Made In Heaven (Extended Version) | Living On My Own (The Egg Remix) | Love Kills (Rank 1 Remix) | Mr Bad Guy (Bad Circulation Version) | I Was Born To Love You (George Demure Almost Vocal Mix) | My Love Is Dangerous (Extended Version) | Love Makin' Love (Demo) | Love Kills (Pixel '82 Remix) | I Was Born To Love You (Extended Version) | Foolin' Around (Early Version) | Living On My Own (No More Brothers Extended Mix) | Love Kills (More Older Rework by The Glimmers) | Your Kind Of Lover (Vocal & Piano Version) | Let's Turn It On (A-Capella Version)

Management by Jim Beach
Audio co-ordinated and compiled by Justin Shirley-Smith and Kris Fredriksson
Cover image courtesy of the Mercury Phoenix Trust, based on a photograph by Neal Preston
Cover design: Outside Line
Booklet Design: Richard Gray
Photography by Simon Fowler, Peter Hince, A Sawa and Peter Sinclair

Dedicated to Freddie Mercury: Lover of Life, Singer of Songs

Singles:

• Love Kills : Sunshine People Radio Remix, Star Rider Remix, Original Single Version, Sunshine People Club Remix (Germany CD)
• Love Kills : Rank 1 Radio Remix, Sunshine People Radio Remix, Star Rider Remix, Original Single Version (Netherlands CD)

CD One contains nineteen tracks from Freddie's solo career, containing a much more representative selection than 'The Freddie Mercury Album' - 7 tracks from 'Mr Bad Guy', 4 from 'Barcelona', the two Larry Lurex tracks, 'Love Kills', 'The Great Pretender', 'Time' and 'In My Defence'. In most cases, the standard album/single versions are used. The album also includes an new remix of 'Love Kills', a 1992/3 remix of 'The Great Pretender' and a version of 'Guide Me Home' by Thierry Lang.

CD Two features a mixture of new remixes, extended versions, and studio rarities, most of which are taken from the 'Freddie Mercury Solo' boxed set. The CD features a new early version of Mr Bad Guy (the Bad Circulation Version) and 6 new remixes (four good, two bad).

Overall, CD One is a very good compilation which highlights the varied range of Freddie's solo work, but CD Two is spoilt by having so many remixes - it would be better to have a selection of early tracks and alternate versions, as Freddie recorded them.