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Oct 28, 2011 Updated Oct 31, 2011

Veteran rockers Queen have announced plans for a new album of unreleased tracks featuring the late Freddie Mercury.

Guitarist Brian May confirmed that he and Roger Taylor have been sifting through the band archives for material with a view to issuing a compilation record early next year.

May also revealed that they're working on the follow-up to the long-running West End musical We Will Rock You, which they wrote with comedian Ben Elton.

"As well as seeing what we can unearth, we want to do a new musical to follow We Will Rock You. The songs are there, it's just a question of finding time to get the right production" May said.

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Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar, guitars, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). Queen's earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works, incorporating more diverse and...

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