The Solo Collection is a compilation box set detailing the solo career of Freddie Mercury; it includes the material Mercury recorded before joining up with Queen, up through the 1993 No More Brothers remixes. Mercury's two studio albums are included, along with various single edits and non-album singles, B-sides, remixes, instrumentals, collaborations, a large number of demo recordings and a set of interviews conducted by David Wigg. Also included are two DVDs: a collection of Mercury's promotional music videos, and a documentary covering his life.

Track listing

The Solo Collection (twelve-disc edition)

Disc one: Mr. Bad Guy (1985)

All songs written by Freddie Mercury

Disc two: Barcelona (1988)

Disc three: The Great Pretender (1992)

Disc four: The Singles 1973–1985

Disc five: The Singles 1986–1993

Disc six: The Instrumentals

Disc seven: Rarities 1

Disc eight: Rarities 2

Disc nine: Rarities 3

Disc ten: The David Wigg Interviews

Disc eleven: The Video Collection (DVD)

Disc twelve: The Untold Story (DVD)

In early prints of the Solo Collection box, the third chapter of the DVD, "Culture Shock", includes what is described in the audio commentary by the filmmakers, Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher of DoRo Productions, as a reconstruction of a Parsi initiation religious ceremony. This segment was completely edited out from all subsequent reprints of the DVD as it was considered potentially offensive. It is also absent from the second version of the documentary, released in 2006 as Disc 1 of Lover of Life, Singer of Songs, the DVD release accompanying the same-titled compilation CD of Mercury solo recordings.

Solo

The box set was also released as a three-disc sampler titled Solo. This edition contains Mercury's two original studio albums, as well as a third disc of selected tracks from the twelve-disc box set.

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