Christmas has come early for Queen fans with the release this morning of 'Face It Alone', a 'lost' Queen track featuring the unmistakable voice of Freddie Mercury.

Its existence was revealed last year by Roger Taylor who described it to the BBC as "a little gem from Freddie that kind of got forgotten about. It’s wonderful, a real discovery. It’s a very passionate piece."

Adds Brian May now: “I’m happy that our team were able to find this track. After all these years, it’s great to hear all four of us … yes, Deacy is there too … working in the studio on a great song idea which never quite got completed... until now!”

It's an appetite-whetter for Queen's revisiting of their 13th album, 1989's The Miracle, which was their penultimate time working in the studio with Mercury who was in the vocal form of his life. Along with original takes, demos and rough cuts, there are five more previously unreleased tunes. Out on November 18, it weighs in at a whopping eight discs.

"Among its contents," reads the official blurb, "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set includes The Miracle Sessions: an hour-plus disc of further previously unreleased recordings, including six unpublished songs.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.

"‘Face It Alone’ was originally recorded during the band’s historic 1988 sessions for that album, a prolific period which saw the band lay down around 30 tracks, many of which were never released, but remained among those that didn’t make the final album cut. It was rediscovered when the band’s production and archive team returned to those sessions to work on The Miracle boxset reissue."

We can't wait!