{"id":611219,"date":"2026-09-25T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611219\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:16:09","slug":"illusionize-and-fezzo-rework-freddie-mercurys-living-on-my-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611219\/","title":{"rendered":"ILLUSIONIZE and FEZZO Rework Freddie Mercury\u2019s \u201cLiving On My Own\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury first released \u201cLiving On My Own\u201d in 1985 during his Mr. Bad Guy era. The original single peaked at No. 50 in the UK, but a posthumous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DedaEVIbTkY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1993 remix<\/a> gave it a major second life, reaching No. 1 and spending two weeks at the top of the charts. More than three decades later, it\u2019s back on the dance floor in another fresh form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis track has a very special meaning for us,\u201d says FEZZO, who have been road-testing it for months. ILLUSIONIZE calls it \u201cone of the best reworks I\u2019ve had the pleasure of being part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a strong opening statement for ACCANTO, ILLUSIONIZE\u2019s new label and party series built around a more collaborative, side-by-side approach to dance music. \u201cLiving On My Own\u201d puts that idea into practice from the very first release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatport.com\/track\/living-on-my-own\/30285350\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get it on Beatport<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercury first released \u201cLiving On My Own\u201d in 1985 during his Mr. Bad Guy era. The original single&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-611219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}