Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé with the epic Barcelona from 1988.. Island Records announce the release on the 3rd of September 2012 of a special 25th Anniversary edition of Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballés classic Barcelona album. Im moving into opera now. Forget rock and roll. Freddie Mercury. 1987. 25 years after the original release of the lead single, Queen singer Freddie Mercurys most self-defining and personal work, his Barcelona album recorded in collaboration with Spanish operatic soprano Montserrat Caballé, is to have a special re-release in an entirely newly orchestrated re-working. The special anniversary version of the album Barcelona - The Special Edition is released September 3, coming around what would have been the singers 66th birthday. The original Barcelona album, named after the Spanish city who would host the Olympics in 1992 and for which Mercury had been asked to write the theme song, was to become the final solo work Mercury would complete. The title was also a tribute to the home city of his beloved recording partner Montserrat Caballé with whom Freddie was captivated and had planned to perform the title song with at the opening of the 1992 Olympics opening ceremony. Sadly Mercury passed away eight months before this could happen. But the album gave Mercury a million selling record and posthumously a chart topping single when the song Barcelona was chosen by BBC TV as its title music to its coverage of the Olympics.............
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