This article is about the unreleased song by Michael Jackson. You may have been looking for the album by the Jacksons named after it.
"Victory" is an unreleased song by Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury. What project it was intended for is currently yet to be revealed.
Background[]
"Victory" is the only song Freddie and Michael wrote together and one of the only three songs they recorded in 1983. The collaboration got scrapped due to scheduling issues.
| “ | [...] I think all that remains is that we actually wrote together and it's a track called Victory, which then he used the title as the Jacksons album. So it was before that. So I mean, in a funny way, I guess that that track is frozen because that's the only time that we actually wrote together, as it were. And so we've got a demo, which sounds great. | ” |
–Freddie Mercury, "A Musical Prostitute: Freddie Mercury Interview", 1984[1] | ||
Freddie's bandmates, Brian May and Roger Taylor reportedly tried to release it on their 2014 compilation album Queen Forever, but couldn't due to disagreements with the Michael Jackson Estate.
Trivia[]
- "Victory" is currently the only collaboration the two made that didn't release or leak yet.
- According to someone related to Michael Jackson who decided to remain anonymous, this song's title was the reason why the Jacksons' 1984 album was named.
- The track apparently evolved into "Wait", the 1985 single from the Victory album.