Mercury and the rest of the band recorded "Face It Alone" in 1988 during the recording sessions for their 1989 album The Miracle. The song remained among those that did not make the final cut. In summer 2022, Brian May and Roger Taylor leaked the news of the newly discovered song, and stated that the song had a good chance of being released.

Among its contents, "The Miracle Collector's Edition" includes "The Miracle Sessions": an hour-plus disc of further previously unreleased recordings, including the aforementioned six unpublished songs. Just as tantalizing for fans, the audio includes the band's candid spoken exchanges on the studio floor in London and Montreux, giving the most revealing window yet into the four members' creative process and the joy, in-jokes and banter on their return to working together. Tantalizing enough that this hour-plus disc offers the first official airing of such near-mythical songs as "Dog With A Bone", "I Guess We're Falling Out", "You Know You Belong To Me" and the poignant "Face It Alone", released as a single in October. Add to that, the trove of sunken treasure spanning from original takes and demos to rough cuts that signpost the album "The Miracle" would become. A lyric video was released on 13 October 2022. The official music video was uploaded on Queen's YouTube channel on 21 October. [4] [5] The music video features figures of the band along with footage of the sessions from The Miracle. Now, as Queen’s trusted content creator, Lupton captures all the song’s poignancy and defiance in a dramatic video that touches on themes of solitude, bravery and the redemptive power of friendship. “The meaning of the song has been interpreted that when something catastrophic occurs in your life, your instinct is to surround yourself with what is dearest and most important to you,” he explains.Said Roger: "Decisions are made on artistic merit, so 'Everybody wrote everything' is the line, rather than ego or anything else getting in the way. We seem to work together better now than we did before. We're fairly up-and-down characters. We have different tastes in many ways. We used to have lots of arguments in the studio, but this time we decided to share all the songwriting, which I think was very democratic and a good idea." While Freddie could no longer tour, QUEEN remained a band of staggering creative resourcefulness. As John Deacon implied, they instead channeled their live chemistry into the studio: "In the first few weeks of recording we did a lot of live material, a lot of songs, some jamming, and ideas came up."

This show of unity was elegantly conveyed by band art director Richard Gray's cover for "The Miracle", which depicts QUEEN's four faces merged into one. "The cover art represents the unity of the group at the time: a seamless merging of four people becoming one," May has said. "We were also dealing with Freddie's deteriorating health and pulling together to support him." Immersing himself in his work, and surrounding himself with his bandmates, gave Freddie that control. Of course, in the end you have to face it alone — but the people around you can help how you face it." The arrival of “Face It Alone” leads in a November 18 release of a new revisiting of the band’s 13th album, The Miracle, the band’s penultimate to be released in Freddie Mercury’s lifetime, which now becomes available in a lavish 8-disc Queen The Miracle Collector’s Edition boxset format on November 18. Kotiinkuljetuksesta perimme rahulia 3,99€ pienemmistä lähetyksistä (lähinnä cd:t) ja isoimmista vermeistä eli vinyyleistä, huppareista yms 5,99€.Now, as QUEEN's trusted content creator, Lupton captures all the song's poignancy and defiance in a dramatic video that touches on themes of solitude, bravery and the redemptive power of friendship. "The meaning of the song has been interpreted that when something catastrophic occurs in your life, your instinct is to surround yourself with what is dearest and most important to you," he explains. Just as revealing – and sure to be prized by the Queen hardcore – are the spoken exchanges between the four members at the Townhouse, Olympic and Mountain Studios, giving listeners a unique snapshot of their friendship and working dynamic. Billboard Japan Hot Overseas: October 26, 2022". Billboard Japan (in Japanese) . Retrieved 26 October 2022.

Van der Graaf, Arie (9 October 2022). "Queen To Release Single "Face It Alone" With Freddy Mercury". Melodic . Retrieved 10 October 2022. The album as originally released on CD, remastered by Bob Ludwig in 2011 from the original first-generation master mixes. Among its contents, the expanded set includes ‘The Miracle Sessions’: an hour-plus disc of further previously unreleased recordings, including six unpublished songs. Just as tantalizing for fans, the audio includes the band’s candid spoken exchanges on the studio floor in London and Montreux, giving the most revealing window yet into the four members’ creative process and the joy, in-jokes and banter on their return to working together. But perhaps the real gemstones of "The Miracle Sessions" CD are the spoken segments that bookend the musical takes. As the studio tape keeps rolling in London and Montreux, the four members are caught at their most candid, giving listeners the uncanny fly-on-the wall experience of standing amongst Freddie, Brian, John and Roger as they banter, debate, swap jokes and show both joy and occasional frustration. The Official Top 40 Best-Selling Vinyl Albums and Singles of 2022". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 2023-01-04.

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Face It Alone"'s existence was first revealed by May and Taylor in a BBC radio interview at their appearance at this year's Royal Jubilee concert at which they performed the opening with their regular singer Adam Lambert, with Roger Taylor describing it as "a little gem from Freddie that we'd kind of forgotten about," with Brian May saying "it's beautiful, it's touching." QUEEN's writing also reflected their personal circumstances. The torn-from-the-headlines drama of "Scandal" was May's personal swipe at the press intrusion into the bandmembers' respective personal affairs. Singled out by Deacon for praise, Freddie's soaring album closer, "Was It All Worth It", has in retrospect been interpreted as a reflection on the singer's health. It would take 15 months and a radical re-structuring of internal band dynamics before QUEEN regrouped in London's Townhouse Studios on December 3, 1987, to start work on their thirteenth studio album. For the first time, QUEEN would share songwriting credits equally, regardless of who conceived each song, a consensus of opinion that was to have fertile results. "Splitting the credits was a very important decision for us. We left our egos outside the studio door," says Brian, "and worked together as a real band — something that wasn't always the case. I wish we'd done it 15 years before." The intention was to create, despite how the lyrics might be interpreted, an upbeat video that celebrated the fact that the period during which this song was recorded was one of the most prolific and cohesive in the band's history, says Lupton.

This feature contains behind the scenes footage of ‘I Want It All’, ‘Scandal’, ‘The Miracle’ and ‘Breakthru’ videos. From trailblazing animation and kaleidoscope effects to a recreation of the band’s beloved Mountain Studios in Montreux, together with evocative images from the videos of songs they were creating at the time of the The Miracle era, the new “Face It Alone” video is the perfect complement to the newly unearthed ballad that Roger Taylor calls “a little gem”. Immersing himself in his work, and surrounding himself with his bandmates, gave Freddie that control. Of course, in the end you have to face it alone – but the people around you can help how you face it.” With the band arriving at the studio with scarce mapped-out material these sessions found QUEEN at their most inspired and impulsive, and that atmosphere is mirrored in not just the music but the familial exchanges that punctuate it.Among its contents, the expanded set includes The Miracle Sessions: an hour-plus disc of further previously unreleased recordings, including six unpublished songs. Just as tantalising for fans, the audio includes the band’s candid spoken exchanges on the studio floor in London and Montreux, giving the most revealing window yet into the four members’ creative process and the joy, in-jokes and banter on their return to working together. The Miracle as never heard before. Sourced from a master tape from March 1989, the Long-Lost Cut reinstates ‘Too Much Love Will Kill You’ as it was originally intended, in the exact position on Side One allotted in 1989, nestled between ‘I Want It All’ and ‘The Invisible Man’. The updated LP sleeve presents the album with a gatefold cover for the first time in its history. Queen premiere previously unheard Freddie Mercury song Face It Alone". BBC . Retrieved 13 October 2022. The band discuss, in their own words, the creative process behind the album. The first interview, Queen for an Hour, was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on 29 May 1989. Host Mike Read speaks with the band for what would be their final group interview. In this interview, Freddie suggests for the first time that his touring days are over. The Miracle Videos includes the five promotional music videos and bonus content on both Blu-ray and DVD formats.