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
The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs is a compilation/remix album by Boney M.. In 1986 producer Frank Farian took the master tapes from 1981's "Christmas Album", added six recordings by Liz Mitchell, Reggie Tsiboe and two session singers from 1984, remixed them and created "Die 20 schönsten Weihnachtslieder der Welt", internationally released as "The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs". The 1986 version of the Boney M. Christmas album has since been re-issued as "The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World" (1992), "A Wonderful Christmas Time" (1998) and "Christmas Party" (1998 and 2003). Side A Side B