Freddie Mercury Sings 'Time Waits For No One' In Never-Before-Seen Music Video
The clip has been released this week by friend & collaborator Dave Clark.
Last updated 21st Jun 2019
Many Queen fans got a shock this Thursday as a previously never-before-seen music video featuring Freddie Mercury was released!
The clip, which was uploaded this week on YouTube and on Mercury’s official website, shows the singer performsing a song titled “Time Waits for No One” on the stage of London’s Dominion Theatre.
The track is an early version of Mercury’s “Time,” which appeared on the 1986 album for Dave Clark’s stage musical of the same name. Clark (best known as the former leader and drummer of the Dave Clark Five) said he’d kept the footage buried deep in his archives, until now!
“Freddie asked me, ‘How do you want me to perform this?’” Clark recalled in an interview with Rolling Stone published Thursday. “I said, ‘As a cross between Edith Piaf, Jennifer Holliday and Shirley Bassey.’ He said, ‘Well, dear. I have all the dresses. I can do it perfectly.’”
Mercury, who died in 1991 due to complications from AIDS just one day after publicly announcing he was HIV positive, has re-entered the pop culture dialogue following “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the 2018 Queen biopic starring Rami Malek. Despite mixed reviews, the film raked in more than $900 million at the box office worldwide and won four Academy Awards, including one for Malek’s performance.
Clark said the restored version of “Time Waits for No One” was ready for release last year, but he purposely waited for the film’s buzz to recede so as to not seem like he was cashing in.
“The nice thing about the film is it’s Freddie on his own without anybody else, and it shows the emotion of the song,” Clark added. “We all know he’s a great singer, but I don’t think he’s been seen on his own with just a piano like this. It makes you realise how good somebody is."