Seems to stem from The Sun seriously mangling a mini piece in Uncut Magazine and 'borrowed' by a bunch of other sites
This one make it sound like no version of Holy Man's ever been released and claims it was co-written by Brian
http://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/foo-fighters/news/beach-boys-song-foo-fighters-queen-blocked-release/#mbDgcKcU6jV7RHLc.97Transcription of Uncut's article -
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/uncut/20170901/283377651998959The Sun's article
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4192795/beach-boys-queen-foo-fighter-song-holy-man-blocked/"HOLY WAR Beach Boys, Queen and Foo Fighters supergroup track Holy Man blocked from release after huge legal row
The six minute song is said to have a whiff of Bohemian Rhapsody about it but is currently banned from seeing the light of day
From Dan Wootton's Bizarre Column
7th August 2017, 9:00 pm Updated: 9th August 2017, 12:30 am
A COLLABORATION between THE BEACH BOYS, QUEEN and FOO FIGHTERS is the stuff of dreams.
But incredibly a track does exist that fuses together music’s ultimate supergroup.
Queen's Brian May was part of the supergroup track which is involved in a huge legal row over its release
A six-minute version of Holy Man, written by the late Beach Boys singer and drummer DENNIS WILSON, is locked in a vault having been worked on by members of Queen and the Foos.
A huge legal dispute has blocked its release, meaning it’s unlikely — at present — fans of three of the biggest bands in history will ever hear it.
A source said: “The song is in a vault and nobody can do anything about it.
“It’s such a shame as there will clearly be a huge demand for it.”
After its original recording by the Beach Boys in 1974, nine years before Dennis tragically drowned off California, the unfinished tapes of the track has been passed to both Queen and the Foos and according to industry experts, the song has more than a whiff of Bohemian Rhapsody about it.
Dennis’s co-writer Stephen Kalinich is one of a lucky few who’ve heard it and describes the track as “a masterpiece”.
He said: “It’s over six minutes long and it’s a masterpiece, but we’ve never been able to release it because we can’t get the legalities worked out. Such a shame.
“People hear it and, honest to God, it brings tears to their eyes.”
Stephen, a poet and lyricist, said the song got “put on the shelf and I never heard it again for 31 years” after the Beach Boys tried to finish it.
Foo Fighters drummer TAYLOR HAWKINS added his vocals, which Stephen described as “like Dennis, the same gravelly, whisky voice”.
He added: “Taylor sent the track to BRIAN MAY and he and ROGER TAYLOR fell in love with it. They spent weeks fooling around with it, putting on vocals and some incredible percussive things.”
The closest the song has ever been to being released was when a film about Dennis, brother of lead singer BRIAN, was in the works, but the project was canned and the film’s director was denied the opportunity to seal the rights to his back catalogue.
Hopefully one day it will see the light of day.
Foo Fighter's Taylor Hawkins (second from left; pictured with Dave Grohl, Chris Shiflett and Nate Mendel) added his vocals to the track
Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson helped to write the track"
edit: lol at the photos The Sun's used - two of The Foo Fighters & Dennis look like they're thinking 'seriously? you got paid for writing this crap?'