This year marks the 50th anniversary of Freddie Mercury's Queen magnum opus, Bohemian Rhapsody.

But fans will not be quick to forget that 2025 is also the 40th anniversary of the late singer's debut solo album, Mr Bad Guy.

To celebrate, Freddie's estate has announced a lavish special edition vinyl reissue.

The star, who died in 1991, said at the time of the 1985 release: "I put my heart and soul into Mr Bad Guy.

"It reflects a whole spectrum of my life. Mr Bad Guy? That's me!"

The announcement read: "Originally released end of April 1985, Mr Bad Guy was Mercury's first album away from the group he had co-founded 15 years before and helped steer to staggering artistic and commercial heights. It found him breaking free from the confines of a band, swapping Queen's chameleonic, arena-sized music for a set of songs that combined his unique songwriting with a driving, dance and pop-inspired sound. Forty years after it first came out, Mr Bad Guy will be reissued on spectacular 180g translucent green vinyl on December 5 as well as picture disc LP exclusively via D2C.

"The new translucent green vinyl reissue features a mix of the album by Queen's longtime sound team of Justin Shirley-Smith and Joshua J Macrae, which originally appeared on 2019's Never Boring box set. The new mix stays true to Freddie's original vision but has the benefits of technology and resources that were not available in the 1980s."

Shirley-Smith shared: "We went back to the original multi-track tapes. It's a great collection of songs and Freddie's vocal performance is absolutely extraordinary. The idea wasn't to try to make it sound like they would make it now, it was to make it sound like it would have then if they'd had better technology and more time. And of course, it's a massive honour to work on anything Freddie did, and we always treat it with the utmost respect."

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