Michael Jackson's and Freddie Mercury's collaborations to be released next year

Queen confirmed plans to release a collection of records made by Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury. According to guitarist Brian May, they will come out next year. "They'll be ready in the next year. We've been talking to Jackson's estate and they're happy", said he.

May added: "Michael Jackson used to come and see us when we were on tour in the States. He and Freddie became close friends, close enough to record a couple of tracks together at Michael's house, tracks which have never seen the light of day".

One of tracks set to be released is demo for the song State Of Shock, which Michael Jackson later recorded together with The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and released in 1984.

Two other compositions – Victory and There Must Be More To Life Than This – were already set to hit the stores in 2002, but never came out for unknown reason.