The Works (Queen album) 19 November 1984, and promotional copies were indeed pressed ("QUEEN 5") and sent out (b/w "Keep Passing the Open Windows"), but the band opted for a Christmas single ("Thank God It's Christmas"). The fifth track on "The Works", "Machines (Or 'Back to Humans')", came about as an idea by Taylor, and May collaborated with him and finished it. Producer Reinhold Mack programmed the synth-"demolition" using a Fairlight CMI II Sampler, and the song is sung as a duet between a double-tracked Mercury (singing in harmony with himself), and a robotic Taylor (using a Roland VP330 Vocoder). The instrumental remix of
Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition via Minogue's official site. The single premiered on 22 November on "The Chris Evans Breakfast Show" on BBC Radio 2. "Wonderful Christmastime" with Mika was released as the second single off the album. It impacted Italian radio stations on December 9, 2016. Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition is the reissue of Australian singer Kylie Minogue's thirteenth studio album "Kylie Christmas" (2015). The album was released on 25 November 2016 by Parlophone. Released 12 months after the original, the "Snow Queen Edition" features six newly recorded songs. To promote the album, Minogue made television appearances and