'It Was Magic': Unearthed Video Shows Freddie Mercury In Rare Form

Dating back to 1986, a recently unearthed video offers a rare glimpse of Freddie Mercury performing without a full band behind him. In the video, the famous Queen frontman sings “Time Waits for No One” from the concept album of the musical “Time,” accompanied only by a piano.

Dave Clark, the creator of “Time,” found and released the original recording of Mercury’s performance after decades of searching for it. “I didn’t even think of going back to the track until 10 years later,” he says. “And it wasn’t to re-release it. It was for my own piece of mind. I wanted to hear it, to keep it. But I couldn’t find it. A few years later, I sent my technical engineer down. We couldn’t find it. This went on for years. And then in 2017, we found it. And it was magic.”