(CNN) Before recording the final version of "Time," Freddie Mercury sang a stripped-down version for singer/producer Dave Clark, accompanied only by a piano.

Clark met the Queen frontman in 1985, when the two recorded music at London's Abbey Road Studios. There, they recorded "Time," the title track from Mercury's sci-fi rock musical . But before recording the final version, filled with percussion, Mercury did a piano only version, which is now being released as a new single, "Time Waits for No One."

Clark told USA Today the toned-down version gave him "goosebumps," that day. He unearthed the recording in 2018 and added a new piano track by the original pianist, Mike Moran.

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"It (became) a mega-production, which I was happy with and Freddie loved. But I didn't think about what we had originally done until a decade or so later, when I thought, 'I've never felt that sort of goosebumps feeling that I got on that original run-through at Abbey Road with just Freddie and piano," Clark said.

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He waited until after "Bohemian Rhapsody," the blockbuster biopic about Mercury's life, had been out for some time in order to make sure the new track got the attention it deserved.

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