Queen releases lost song Face It Alone - recorded with Freddie Mercury

Queen has released a lost song recorded with late frontman Freddie Mercury more than 30 years ago, Report informs via SkyNews.

Originally taped in 1988 during the British band's sessions for their 13th album The Miracle, Face It Alone did not make the final cut and was later forgotten.

The song was rediscovered when Queen's production and archive team returned to the sessions to work on an upcoming reissue of the album, which will also include some of the band's conversations on the studio floor in London and Montreux, Switzerland.

It will be the rock group's first new song featuring Mercury to be released in more than eight years, following on from the 2014 Queen Forever album, which included three previously unheard tracks with the singer - Let Me In Your Heart Again, Love Kills and There Must Be More To Life Than This.

Made up of Mercury, May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, Queen was founded in 1970 and went on to become one of the world's best-selling music acts, with hits including Don't Stop Me Now, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Another One Bites The Dust, We Will Rock You, I Want To Break Free and Bohemian Rhapsody.

Mercury died from AIDs-related complications in 1991 at the age of 45.

May and Taylor continue to perform as Queen, featuring American Idol star Adam Lambert on vocals.